Stop Bridge from Auto Expanding Across Monitors

This has been happening for a while, but my bridge usually lives on my right screen but it will sometimes automatically span across both of my monitors when I do an action like create a new folder and then it blows up all the thumbnails so their huge. It's becoming annoying and if anyone knows how to stop this from happening I would greatly appreciate it. My machine is running windows 7 and no other app does this, only bridge.
Thanks

You may find that it's not a 'Bridge' thing. I presume you are on a Mac... and have the lastest OS?
When you do a hard shut down and then restart, any apps that were open will re-open.
Also if you quit a program with something open. Quitting and restarting the program automatically opens what was previously open.
I find that I have gotten into the habit of closing before quitting... quite annoying.
I hope I didn't go off topic too much...

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