PS CC stopped opening. Error message:"could not initialize photoshop because of a program error."

I bought PS CC yesterday. It's been working fine, including earlier tonight. I closed it and tried to open it again and got the above message. Thank you for your help.

Could be corrupt preferences, a problem with the OS font cache, or some other problem with the OS.
First, try resetting the preferences.

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