No stroke panel in PS 5.5

I am following a tutorial and my photoshop is actting a little strange there is no stroke panel. I know the keybaord shortcut is Ctrl + F10 or Windows, Stroke.
I also can't stroke a circle, by using the path tool.

Are you trying to stroke a path or selection?
The Edit>Stroke needs an active selection and for paths you should be
able to go to the paths panel and from the flyout menu choose stroke path.
If you have a shape layer, then the stroke paths will not work. You can either
save the path, choose a different layer (make a new blank layer) and stroke the path
or use Layer>Layer Style>Stroke on the shape layer.
MTSTUNER

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