Turn OFF autohide

[Nebohtes]

If I turn off "Auto-Show Hidden Panels" in Preferences > Workspace, everything just disappears.  I want them to not disappear at all -- I want to just be able to see my workspace, image preview, palets, layers all the time without having to move the cursor all the way to the right of the screen and hold it over my workspace to be able to see my workspace.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Please post meaningful screenshots. 

Hve you ever set up the desired workspace and saved it (Window > Workspace > New Workspace)? 

[Nebohtes]

See, here there is no tools, like a layer selection or palet, and the cursor isn't over where my tools should be.

[Nebohtes]

[Nebohtes]

Let's try this again -- this interface is INCREDIBLY sluggish...  Here, there are no tools, and my cursor is away from the right of the screen where my tools have always been (or windows, or workspace, or options, or whatever right word I'm not using that you probably can discern what I'm getting at -- the stuff that default shows up on the right side of the screen like palets and previews and layers and so on).  If the cursor is not ALL the way over at the right side of the screen, those things don't show up.  Next, I'm going to move the cursor all the way over to the right of the screen...

[Nebohtes]

Now the cursor is all the way to the right of the screen, so the Layers and Palet and all that kind of thing are visible again.  As soon as I do not have the cursor actually hovering over the menus, they dissappear again, so I can't see what's going on while the cursor is over my image.  Does that make sense?

[Nebohtes]

I've been using Photoshop for years -- I've never had my tool options dissappear and go into "auto-hide" mode before.  They have always just been visable.  I've given Adobe a couple thousand dollars, and have never posted in the forums before, as I've always just rolled with the punches and figured it out, but it has been a couple months since I needed Photoshop, and it's being uncooperative, as usual, but I thought I'd try the forums instead of doing what I usually do and hunt for solutions elsewhere in blogs or whatnot.  I think I have probably found solutions in FAQs, here, but had no luck today, so after being a customer for years, I made a couple posts.  Go ahead and delete this thread -- I'll go back to my usual method.

Thanks for trying to help, this is not for me.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I am not an administrator and cannot remove your posts or the thread. 

What have you done for trouble-shooting so far? 

Restoring Preferences after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved might be a good starting point:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/basic-trouble-shooting-steps.html

If that doesn’t help have you tried undocking the Panels and manually re-arranging them? 

[TheDude4326256]

FWIW, I'm also having this issue...

[Bart28575269gmwp]

Press the TAB key? No expert, but ran into the same issue I think. That solved it for me. Seems it's a feature to hide everything quickly and bring it back, but I must have pressed it on accident. Leaving this here ofr others running into this.

[Planography]

This solved it for me thanks. As usual a community expert always forgets the most simple and likely solution.