Gradient Colour Goes To Eye Dropper Colour Picker?

Hello,
Whenever I try to edit the gradient colour by clicking on the colour bar itself (second in from the left, http://prntscr.com/6vfu4u) it comes up with the eye dropper tool instead of the normal colour picker.
(It changes to this once I click on that colour box to change the gradient; http://prntscr.com/6vfuj3. It also does the same thing through Layer > Blending Options > Gradient Overlay)
Any idea why or how I can get back to the normal colour picker?
Thanks!

Wow I feel stupid, the colour picker window was opening on my second monitor which was turned off -.-

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FIX
I know this is a dated thread, but I stumbled across it looking for an answer to the same problem. Since there wasn't a solution on this thread I kept on looking and found the answer, or at least an easy workaround.
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