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Dave Gurtcheff

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I have Photoshop 2024 installed as well as several suggestions versions CS5 32 Bit, CS5 64 Bit, CS6 32 Bit and CS6 64 Bit. The CS6 64Bit became corrupted and would lock up my PC. I was able to re-download CS6 and re-install many Legacy Plug-Ins, but the old CS6 still haunts me. If I double click a TIF or JPG file it tries to use the corrupted CS6 and freezes my PC. I have to then go to CTL ALT DEL and bring up Task Manager and shut it down. I
have gone through all the listed "Fixes" to get Photoshop 2024 to open my TIFs and JPGs, but non work, as they do not offer me the choice of PS 2024 using "Open With".
Any suggestions?
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Dave Gurtcheff

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Sorry, I forgot to say I am using Windows 10 on a PC.
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PeterAit

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Right-click a file of the type you want to open with a specific program.

Go to Open with > Choose another app.

In the dialog box, if the program you want is not listed, click More apps and then scroll down and click Look for another app on this PC.

Navigate to the .exe file of the desired program, select it, and click Open.

When prompted, select Just once (do not check "Always use this app" unless you want to set it as the default).

After doing this once, the chosen program should appear in the "Open with" menu for that file type, allowing you to select it easily in the future without going through "Choose another app".
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Dave Gurtcheff

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Thanks Peter. This is what I have been doing. No matter which program I select (In this instance Photoshop 2024), then click on Photoshop.exe, it ALWAYS tries to use the corrupted CS6 and hangs up my computer. I have been looking in "Program Files". I will try looking in "Program Files (X86)" which lists several alternatives and see what happens.
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Dave Gurtcheff

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Even if I select a Photoshop version listed in "Program Files (X86) it always tries to open with the corrupted CS6 and hanks up my computer.
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Dave Gurtcheff

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Thanks everyone, I have tried everything. As a last resort, I could open Photoshop and leave it running and minimize it. Then if I want to look at a photo file, instead of double clicking it, I would have to maximize Photoshop to full screen, and open the file from there. That is giving up in defeat, but I have tried everything. My fear is that with Photoshop running in the background it may slow my PC up while doing other things.
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I can't help but thinking that this issue stems from your having an out-of-date OS and several PS versions still installed.

One idea is to uninstall the corrupt CS6 version. Or find its EXE file and rename it.
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If that does not help then, I know it would be painful, to uninstall all Adobe products then run the Adobe Cleaner program.  After that re-install what you need, probably PS 1st, then CS6 if you really need to for your plugins.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html
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I have two versions of PS on my PC. If I open the one I want to use, then dbl click on the photo it opens in the version I opened. My computer is very fast so there is minimal time to first open the PS version I want to use.
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