Photoshop keeps crashing only seconds after starting, any ideas why?

Question

Every time I open photoshop it works for a few seconds, maybe just long enough to open something, then it comes up saying something is wrong and it needs to close... I have no idea why!! Any ideas would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

How much available disk space do you have?  Do you have a physically separate, dedicated hard drive for Photoshop's scratch file, or is your internal boot drive the only one you have?   If the latter, you have to keep in mind that Photoshop's scratch is going to be competing with the only read/write head.  Between both, you'll need truly oodles of contiguous available hard drive spaces (hundreds of GB).
What troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?  Have you re-installed Photoshop by uninstalling the Ps install you have, then running the Adobe CS Clean tool and re-installing Photoshop from scratch?
Have you deleted or nuked the (most likely corrupted) Photoshop preferences files?
Sorry, but most of us here simply dismiss vague statement like "a tonne of this or that" or "everything is up to date".  We need the exact version numbers and specs.  Users are very often wrong about "everything being up to date".
"Around 16 GB" immediately arouses suspicion.  Sorry.
If you had bothered to actually read the link in my first post here, you would know all that.
You would also know that you are not addressing Adobe here.  From that link:
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