I'm home from university and doing some maintainence on my parent's computer. They are not especially savvy with the computer and never bother to do much in the way of maintainance or anything. I noticed a few wierd problems in the machine (they were running 10.2.8). They also complaiinded that the computer would often freeze when they tried to put it to sleep.
The most glaring issue was that all the little menubar extras (volume controls, the clock, bluetooth, iChat and eject) often hang such that when you put the mouse pointer over them it turned into the spinning beach ball. There was also just a lot of organizational problems and stuff, so I did an archive and install of Panther. Since there are only two users I decided to do a clean arcive and not preserve their user folders (I'll transfer the files in later). So now I have a presumably fresh OS on this machine and I went to set up fast user switching. Testing it out I discovered that the menubar extras are still hanging. If you sit and wait for a few minutes they become useable and they don't appear to have any effect on system performance, but it's really annoying and confusing that this problem would persist.
So far fixing disk permissions hasn't helped anything and I'm rather stumped as to how to approach dealing with this. (especially since the'slash and burn' method of reinstalling the OS to fix problems did not work).
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