Saturday nights tea was delayed for a couple of hours as after restarting my laptop a whole swathe of stuff was missing from the righthand menu bar (i.e. all of it).

missing menulets
 

Following changing to the Mac, I had always been slightly concerned that should it all go pear-shaped that I wouldn’t stand much of a chance of fixing things, but then realised I would be equally lost if the Windows system tray suddenly went missing either, and at least I don’t have a registry to deal with.

A bit of Googling (to little avail) and then reading through a couple of sites suggested that the combination of 10.4.4 to 10.4.5 upgrade, combined with a little hack to enable the use of Frontrow might be to blame1.

The fix, or at least what worked for me was to download and install the 120Mb latest OS X combo update, which had the effect of replacing whichever was offending file, and another restart later all was good and the Frontrow hack reinstalled with apparently no corolliary problems.

found again
 

Also, With that many restarts I managed to work out it takes 56 seconds to boot my laptop (well it was not there was anything on TV to watch). Oh, and food was served at 9:35pm.

  1. It might be worth noting that the event followed a restart while networked to a PC, but that may just be coincidence. ↑

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