Can't Access Menu Bar

My apologies if this is mentioned somewhere on the forum, but i could not find a thread that was relevant to my situation so…

In Cubase Pro 8 I’m having the same issue. If i close the Steinberg Hub without opening a project, clicking on ANYTHING in the menu bar does absolutely nothing. I have to close Cubase/restart it/choose a project from the Hub. And…which is immensely more aggravating is that once i open a new project i have Zero access to the menu bar! I have to add an audio track AND record a snippet before the program will give me access to the menu bar. I really hope that this is a result of overlooking something rather simple…maybe a setting/preference of which i’m unaware. If anyone has any insight into this, i would REALLY appreciate it.