Can you solve this Photoshop puzzle?

[Peano]

I can't figure this one out. I'm running Photoshop 25.1.0. When I launch it, instead of getting my default workspace, I get the Home screen saying I don't have any cloud files (because I don't use the cloud). I have to click the PS icon at top left to get to my workspace.

I've tried (repeatedly) going into Interface Preferences (General) and unticking "Auto show the Home screen." But it doesn't stick. If I close PS and reopen, I get the Home screen, and that box has been re-ticked.

BUT: If I launch PS "as an administrator," it opens, as it should, in my default workspace. And the unticked "Auto show Home screen" remains unticked.

So I'm stumped. Any ideas on how to get rid of that Home screen regardless of how I launch PS?

EDIT: I also notice that other Preference settings don't stick. For instance I tick the second internal drive, D:, as a scratch disk. But that is unticked the next time I launch PS. But: if I open PS "as an administrator," all of those preferences remain in effect.

I've even tried uninstalling PS without saving settings and preferences, then re-installing it and starting from scratch. I continue to have the same problem: that bloody Home screen on startup.

 

[ushere]

why not simply "open as admin"?

 

[Peano]

I can't figure this one out. I'm running Photoshop 25.1.0. When I launch it, instead of getting my default workspace, I get the Home screen saying I don't have any cloud files (because I don't use the cloud). I have to click the PS icon at top left to get to my workspace.

I've tried (repeatedly) going into Interface Preferences (General) and unticking "Auto show the Home screen." But it doesn't stick. If I close PS and reopen, I get the Home screen, and that box has been re-ticked.

BUT: If I launch PS "as an administrator," it opens, as it should, in my default workspace. And the unticked "Auto show Home screen" remains unticked.

So I'm stumped. Any ideas on how to get rid of that Home screen regardless of how I launch PS?

EDIT: I also notice that other Preference settings don't stick. For instance I tick the second internal drive, D:, as a scratch disk. But that is unticked the next time I launch PS. But: if I open PS "as an administrator," all of those preferences remain in effect.

I've even tried uninstalling PS without saving settings and preferences, then re-installing it and starting from scratch. I continue to have the same problem: that bloody Home screen on startup.

RESOLVED!! Someone on another forum had the answer: Go into AppData > Roaming >> Photoshop settings. In that file, give read/write/change permissions in the Prefs file. After that, settings in UI Preferences stick, and the Home screen is history.

 

[ushere]

glad you got it sorted. i've always set ps to open as admin since ps 5