Photoshop CS4 Active Window in Color option ?

I can't find a way to make the active document stand out from the inactive documents in CS4.
Sometimes I have multiple windows opened, and it was handy in CS3 to have the active
document stand out from the inactive ones, to avoid confusion about which document is
being edited.
Is there any way to distinguish the title bar of the active window as before ?

eQuilter wrote:
I can't find a way to make the active document stand out from the inactive documents in CS4.
Sometimes I have multiple windows opened, and it was handy in CS3 to have the active
document stand out from the inactive ones, to avoid confusion about which document is
being edited.
Is there any way to distinguish the title bar of the active window as before ?
I'm not joking; if you look very closely you will see that the text on the title bar is black on the active document and grey on the others.
Very helpful! Just as helpful as losing the ability to right-click the title bar for that handy context menu.
These are elementary oversights on the part of the UI design team. According to Nack this whole UI was designed with the aim of being easier to use than the old one (which most of us were happy with).
EPIC FAIL!

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I'm using the 11.0.1 version (the latest), and even with that, the brush is awfully slow on windows 7. I tried with and without the "Open-GL drawing" enabled, it doesn't change anything. I thought it could be the fault of Windows 7's "tablet PC" function, but even after uninstalling it, i still have the same problem. I tried it on XP SP3 on the same computer, and it works normaly.
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AirSoft Studio wrote:
…Any ideas/takes on what this could be?
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Tiernobyl wrote:
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