Weird Photoshop behaviour- becomes unresponsive

I'm having a weird behaviour with Photoshop CS4. Sometimes when I have some other application or applications open. I will be unable to use any of the menus of photoshop. If i close some of my applications and then restart Photoshop then it will work. It seems like a memory management issue. Anybody else has this problem?

Update CS4 to 11.0.1?
Buy and install more RAM.
Don't have so many other applications running in the background.
Go to MSconfig, startup and turn off items that you do not need running will help too. You can always start them manually.
mikelovem wrote:
I'm having a weird behaviour with Photoshop CS4. Sometimes when I have some other application or applications open. I will be unable to use any of the menus of photoshop. If i close some of my applications and then restart Photoshop then it will work. It seems like a memory management issue. Anybody else has this problem?

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