Auto-Align won't come up

When I try to use the Auto Blend feature of Photoshop CS5 it does not come up highlighted and I can't use it! How do I activate this feature? It is found under the edit menu. Also when I tried to update, a message comes up to close Photoshop .exec. What is this and where is it and how do I close the program in order to complete the updates I want??? Thank you so much for any help you can give me. I am sooooo frustrated!

For auto blend and auto align you need to
have two or more layers selected (active in the layers panel)
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSA75E6997-6EB8-4bf7-8E18-ACE6CC02DCDDa.htm l
Check in the task manager for photoshop or bridge running.
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