Press and hold Alt+Control+Shift (Mac: Option+Command+Shift) immediately after Photoshop Elements begins launching.

Note: Deleting the preferences file is an action that cannot be undone. You can restore all preferences to their defaults. If the application exhibits unexpected behavior, the preferences file could be damaged. Preference settings control how Photoshop Elements Editor displays images, cursors, and transparencies, saves files, uses plug‑ins and scratch disks, and so on. I did try searches on this forum for the problem and found several matches, but none of them seemed to include a resolution. I don't want to try all sorts of resetting those settings back to defaults since that will probably cause more problems. I don't see anything in PSE settings for this. It's been working fine for years, and all of a sudden this happened.

So how can I go directly to Expert mode? I don't even want the menu where you have to pick the mode.

See the screen shot below (note: I went to Export mode to create the screenshot, so that is what is showing in the screenshot, but initially it was in Guided). I've been working on a particular photo for a couple days now, and all of a sudden I get the 'Open / Menu / Quick / Guided / Expert' screen with the default set to 'Guided'.

I launch it from a shortcut to the PSD that brings me directly to the PSD file in Expert mode. I use PSE just about every day, version 15, Expert mode only, using Windows 10.

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