Layers panel always closed on startup

Good afternoon
I noticed my layers panel became closed everytime I start photoshop cs6. I tried to create new workspace with open panel but that's had no effect, panel is closed after the restart of Photoshop. Any help?

Just a small update. Workspace reset not solved the problem completely, everytime I open photoshop the layer panel shows wrong and that was very annoying. I noticed some problems with another software as well and I think the cause was the files permission issues in Windows 7. I changes the owner for Program Files folder and reset permissions for system and admin. It seems, now everything, Photoshop as well, works as it should.

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