Help! screen goes dim, just the editing window

Hi there, I am running photoshop cs4 extended on windows 7 on  hp. once in a while my screen goes dim making editing difficult. My monitor is profiled and is fine. the only thing dim is the images on my first screen. I run two screens, when I pull PS over to  my other monitor it brightens up. So Its not in my file, and it isn't affecting photoshops menu bars or anything like that, and its only intermitent. the first screen is the profiled one as it  is much higher quality, the second screeen is only for tools and web browsing. In have checked  a lot of things and have no idea what causes this or any solution, any advice would be great.

Cannot possibly be, as for one it is a desktop computer that has no power management, and two the menu bars, tools and everything else stays the same brightness, it is only the editing window itself.
Thank you for trying, it is appreciated.

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