The menu bar icons and clock have disappeared from the top right corner of my screen. I don't have a recollection of a specific incident that may have caused this, although I had just changed the desktop background image a short while before, and had a number of strange keychain messages pop up while in System Preferences. A lag in my keystroke to response time meant that I missed a couple of these popups, which may have taken attempts to Cancel and Abort any changes as instead an acceptance of something more dire. Eventually, I got out of the system preferences but I did not notice any problems as yet. I put the iBook to sleep. When I woke it up a half hour later, I immediatley noticed the absence of this icons and clock. Any ideas as to the cause, but more importantly, the repair?
I have already done the Disk Utility repair of permissions, and reboot, also tried setting up another admin account. The second admin account also does not display this information. I even repeated installing the comprehensive 10.3.9 update over again, but to no avail. I have found very little on the Web about this problem, but what I have read indicates it may be related to the OS component that displays Menu Items crashing on startup--possibly because of corruption to a preferences file, or files.
Please help.
Thanks,
Scott C.
I have already done the Disk Utility repair of permissions, and reboot, also tried setting up another admin account. The second admin account also does not display this information. I even repeated installing the comprehensive 10.3.9 update over again, but to no avail. I have found very little on the Web about this problem, but what I have read indicates it may be related to the OS component that displays Menu Items crashing on startup--possibly because of corruption to a preferences file, or files.
Please help.
Thanks,
Scott C.