Photoshop CS5 all menus grayed out

Photoshop file after working on image all the menus go grayed out. Able to save file but can not select any menus. After you save the image quit and then reopen file works fine. This has happened 5 times today.
Tried the file in CS3 Photoshop and have not had this problem
Imac G5 2 GHz Intel Core Creative Suite Master Collection.

martinbay wrote:
Sloppy QA. Microsoft-like.
Oh, now that was a low blow. Insults are uncalled for.
Seriously though, this is hardly the kind of bug that any programmer or QA dept would have even imagined. For something this wacky to happen just because a file is being saved to a relatively slow hard drive? No one could have foreseen even the possibility of such an oddball bug. That's just the way it goes sometimes, especially with huge applications like Photoshop.
Sam Breach wrote:
I know it's a couple of years old but is a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM really condsidered a "slow drive" these days? What should I be looking at upgrading to?
Yes, Sam, it wouldn't matter if your laptop were only two weeks old, laptops always use very slow hard drives to reduce both power consumption and heat, that's just one of the tradeoffs you make when you choose a laptop instead of a desktop.
What should you be looking to upgrade to? Well, there does happen to be a high-spead option for laptops today that was not available when you got your laptop a couple of years ago: solid state drives (SSD), which are now an option (albeit expensive) in MacBook Pros. They are amazingly fast.

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Thanks Bill. No worries... Haa, haa. I should have asked MYSELF about the second monitor.
REALLY appreciate the help and care.
Blessings bro.
David
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:54:35 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Help please...All menus grayed out in CS4...
The second monitor has been an issue with several programs. Photoshop is one too.
There is another thread, where a user was getting the "bing," that a window was open, but could not see it. Sure enough, it was on his second monitor, that had been disconnected. I should have asked if you had ever had a second monitor. I am the "dunce."
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