Color Picker Reset

I used to have the color picker tab in the toolbar on the right (above the adjustments and layers tabs, now I have a different color selection tool that has a color strip, with the RGB sliders above it. I want to reset it to the color picker that had the large square with the color ribbon to the left of it. Any ideas out there?

You can sign out of your CC account and when you sign back in, it should catch any updates.
CC Desktop App:
Gear icon > Preferences > General (another gear) > Account > Sign Out
Anyway CC and CC 2014 are separate installs.
Even the updated CC doesn't have the Hue Cube, you still need CC 2014.
Gene

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