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Photoshop Freezing On Startup | How to Fix

Photoshop freezing on startup?

[alert-success]This is happening because your adobe photoshop preferences file is corrupt!! Hereโ€™s how to solve it.[/alert-success]

Photoshop freezing on startup? Past few days I was facing this issue. It gets frozen for a minute or so after launch. This soon became very irritating especially after I transfered photos from Camera would be really eager to play around with them. Thus came the time to ask the almighty Google for a solution to fix photoshop freezing on startup, I came across many different solutions. Some of them suggested increasing RAM, some suggested tweaking the scratch disks options under preferences.

However while most did nothing thereโ€™s one solution suggested on Kanate.com that worked for me.

All you need to do is follow these steps:

Windows:
Launch Photoshop application while holding down CTRL + ALT + SHIFT

OR

MAC:
Launch the application while holding down COMMAND + OPTION + SHIFT

You will see a PROMPT which mentions an instruction as seen below:

How to Fix Photoshop Freeze on Start
How to Fix Photoshop Freeze on Start

Upon seeing this prompt, click โ€œYESโ€.

What this will do is, regenerate your preferences file. And, you are through.

Let me know if this works for you too.

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