My desk top is frozen, cant access any files

After multiple email issues, i was told to reinstall my operating system, which I have. All worked fine for about 24 hours. Now my desktop is frozen. I can move my mouse, but cannot open any files. This started when I was installing adobe photoshop.
Help!

Hi,
Welcome to Apple Discussions. In case of further problems make sure you have a good back up of your personal files and data including Address Book, Bookmarks, Calendars, Documents, Music, Photos etc. Performing a clean install maybe the last resort if you haven't already done so. Meanwhile, try to relaunch Finder (cmd + alt + esc), repair permissions (Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app) and deactivate (CS3 and above) then reinstall Photoshop (it can help to delete the entire Adobe support files first but note this will require reinstalling all Adobe products afterwards: Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/ and Users/Library/Application Support/Adobe/). Close all open applications before performing any of the above.

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