Photoshop refuses to open any files, shows an unhelpful error message when attempting to close.

[adamspurgin]

I have been completely unable to use photoshop today.

Attempts to open a file by any means results in absolutely nothing happening. No error message, no activity, just remains on the splash screen.

When I try to close it, it create an error dialog that says "Could not complete your request because of a program error.", again, nothing helpful. dismissing the error message does not close the application, and I have to open task manager to actually get it to close

what I have tried:
* Force closing all adobe processes, then starting them back up
* Updating to the newest version of all applications and restarting

System info:

• Adobe Photoshop Version: 22.0.0 20201006.r.35 2020/10/06: 4587a1caa63 x64
• Number of Launches: 17
• Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
• Version: 10 or greater 10.0.19041.546
• System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:5, Stepping:5 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, HyperThreading
• Physical processor count: 10
• Logical processor count: 20
• Processor speed: 3696 MHz
• Built-in memory: 65364 MB
• Free memory: 35932 MB
• Memory available to Photoshop: 59887 MB
• Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %

Is the actual error log hiding somewhere? Or is this just par for the course with Adobe?

[adamspurgin]

I was able to find a number of stacktraces from what I assume is the error log for Photoshop. I've included one here.

2020:10:21 18:56:53 : Stack :  : 0	address: 0x00007FF6B0F4AC99	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
1	address: 0x00007FF6AFD01AC8	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
2	address: 0x00007FF6AFD015E2	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
3	address: 0x00007FF6ADE9E4EC	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
4	address: 0x00007FF6AFD5E87A	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
5	address: 0x00007FF6ADBB06F4	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
6	address: 0x00007FF6ADE19065	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
7	address: 0x00007FF6ADBA3529	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
8	address: 0x00007FF6ADBB78E6	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
9	address: 0x00007FF6ADE3D214	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
10	address: 0x00007FF6ADBA52D8	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
11	address: 0x00007FF6ADDFF576	base: 0x00007FF6A70C0000	module name: 'Photoshop.exe'
12	address: 0x00007FF8CFCD7034	base: 0x00007FF8CFCC0000	module name: 'KERNEL32.DLL'
13	address: 0x00007FF8D105CEC1	base: 0x00007FF8D1010000	module name: 'ntdll.dll'