Tool windows jump!

Hi guys,
I got a really annoying problem which occurred some days ago. I am working with Photoshop CS6 on a Mac wit Mac OS Yosemite (10.10) on two screens. The smaller one on the right site has all my tool windows on it. For no reason the tool windows always jump down now when I do any action with them. I linked 10 windows together. Even if i split them into single windows they keep jumping after trying to do work with them.
I already did a PRAM-Reset and repaired the disk permissions several times. I am freaking out with this problem!
I hope you can help me!
Thanks a lot
Patrick

Not sure what you mean by "Jumping"? What does that mean exactly? The tool boxes/windows move up/down, the screen moves up/down or goes to another desktop?
Apple Mac OS X has never been known to do Dual Screens very well. In fact Apple never planed for OS X and Mac users to us Dual screens. That is why Apple incorporated the Multi Desktop system where a swipe take you to a completely new desktop and opening programs in Full Screen mode makes its own desktop for that program. The Multi desktop model and Dual Screens don't work very well with each other.

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