Photoshop wont start after being closed without restart

Thank you for your sysinfo. Have you tried to disable the third party plugin Filter Forge or check with the creator to see if there is an update or issue on their end?

Thank you,

Cory

Adobe Photoshop Version: 24.1.0 20221206.r.166 be4691b x64
Number of Launches: 1
Operating System: Windows 11 64-bit
Version: 11 or greater 10.0.22000.1455
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:14, Stepping:9 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 4
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 4200 MHz
Built-in memory: 32711 MB
Free memory: 20968 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 25144 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 70 %
Crash Handler: Adobe
DCX Version: 6.15.3
SAM SDK Version: 2.0.0-main.1564
ACP.local Status:
- SDK Version: 2.11.0
- Core Sync Status: Reachable and compatible
- Core Sync Running: 6.1.0.10
- Min Core Sync Required: 4.3.66.28
Live Edit Client SDK Version: 3.91.3
Content Credential Helper Version: 0.4.12
Manta Canvas: Enabled.
Alias Layers: Disabled.
Modifier Palette: Enabled.
Highbeam: Disabled.
Image tile size: 1024K
Image cache levels: 4
Font Preview: Medium
HarfBuzz Version: HarfBuzz Not Initialized
TextEngine: Unified Text Engine
======= GPU
Native API stable: True
OpenGL API stable: True
OpenCL API stable: True
D3D12Warp renderer: False
GPUDeny: 0
GPUForce: 0
useGPU: 1
useOpenCL: 1
isGPUCapable: 1
GPUName: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GPUVendor: NVIDIA
IsNativeGPUCapable: 1
IsOpenGLGPUCapable: 1
IsOpenCLGPUCapable: 1
HasSufficientRAM: 1
GPU accessible RAM: 11,660 MB
Required GPU accessible RAM: 1,500 MB
UseGraphicsProcessorChecked: 1
UseOpenCLChecked: 1
Windows remote desktop: 0
Display: 1
Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=2160, right=3840
Display: 2
Display Bounds: top=0, left=-1920, bottom=1080, right=0
------- Sniffer output
[0 ms]
Launch GPUSnifferThread

[1 ms]
Start RunAllAPIs

[2 ms]
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2023\sniffer.exe" -baseTimeMS=200212 -comment=Photoshop Version: Adobe Photoshop 24.1.0 20221206.r.166 be4691b x64

[624 ms]
Start sniffer 2023-01-11 09:49:16
# Photoshop Version: Adobe Photoshop 24.1.0 20221206.r.166 be4691b x64
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2023\sniffer.exe -baseTimeMS=200212 -comment=Photoshop Version: Adobe Photoshop 24.1.0 20221206.r.166 be4691b x64

I tried to respond to you a few times but it's getting marked as spam when I include the system info. 

The restoring prefernces worked in that it rebuilt the folder but had no effect on helping me restart photoshop.

Any idea how i can send the sytem info without it getting marked as spam?  

Hi @sdepace sorry to hear this.

Let's make sure we're in a default state and there are no stale settings somewhere: 

Restore your preferences using this manual method:  

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually  

Does it work correctly? 

If that doesn't solve it, you can quit Photoshop and put the Settings folder back. 

It may help if we could see your Photoshop System Info. Launch Photoshop, and select Help >System Info...and copy/paste the text in a reply.  

Thank you,

Cory

I have also disabled using my GPU in the photoshop preferences and no change. Frustrating!!

I have also updated my video driver which didn't work. I then restarted in safe mode, and it worked normally.

Yes I have done that. An update though, i walked away from my computer for about ten minutes and when I returned Photoshop was open. I closed it again and tried to reopen and the same thing happens.

Kill all Photoshop instances (if any) in section Background processes.

Yes I have seen that in the task manager, but in my case after I end the process, each time I try to open the program, I get multiple new instances and it doesn't open. 

I have noticed few times that Photoshop is closed but still running in Task Manager. If that is the case just right click and choose End task without restarting computer. I do not know what exactly is causing process to run in the background after closing app.