Photoshop Elements Menu Bar hidden

I notice with Photoshop Elements that on some installs the full menu of 'File', 'Edit', 'Find', 'View', 'Window' and 'Help' appears at the top of the screen, yet on other installs only a Chevron '>>' appears that you have to click onto to reveal the menu options. How do I set up the program so that the full list of options appears in the Menu Bar at the top of the screen?
best regards,
James

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First, thank you lundberg2 for moving this to the right forum, I didn't know that Elements had a separate forum.
I did delete the preference file for Elements 4.0, though not the way you gave because the Alt+Ctrl+Shift command didn't work on this version. I did it manually by deleting the Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 Prefs.psp file located in AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/4.0/Editor. This did help temporarily, but the problem returned after steady use today on restoring old family photos. Menu Bar buttons still just highlight and flicker, work can't be saved directly, and Elements won't close. I did notice that sometimes, changing the active tool on the left would get the Menu Bar selections open, but not all worked as normal, and the problem returned if I changed tools. Is there another possible fix/remedy that I could try?

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Thanks for your help - your suggestion worked beautifully.Dennis Hood
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Subject: I'm using Photoshop Elements 12 on Windows 8.1. When I go into the Expert Edit Mode the toolbar available appears in one single column and misses off several tools including foreground and background colour. How can I restore the original toolbar?
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