I have made some progress, but this is still not resolved, and I surely can't be the only one to experience this. I looked around on the interwebs, and I watched some Youtube videos. One thing helped, and it was this: Go to the droplet, right click, select properties, select the "compatibility" tab, and change the droplet to "run as administrator". Like this: But that's not enough. You then need to navigate to: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2024\photoshop.exe, right click on the exe and select properties. Now you also set this to "run as administrator on the compatibility tab: The droplet now runs. However, now every time I use the droplet I get the popup message from microsoft saying this program is from an unknown publisher and do I want to continue. Also, every time I launch Photoshop now, I get the same message, and EVERY SINGLE TIME I TRY TO OPEN A FILE I GET THIS MESSAGE NOW:   Again, I'm on 25.0.2 If I open PS 2021, then I don't get that message on launching PS, but I do get the "droplet can't communicate with Photoshop message". Please help. This is making PS completely unusable.  
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