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Uh Oh. Blank Menu Bar... b/c of NORTON?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Miami Beach
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My date/clock/volume/display icons in my menu bar have disappeared. Not just the icons themselves, b/c I lost all ctrl-click funtionality too.
I originally thought it was a result of a botched PS7 install but now I think it may be attributable to changing themes. About a month ago I used "themechanger 0.5" to switch my Aqua to SmoothStripes. I then used "AquaFix" to change it back before I installed 10.2.4 and have left it as Aqua since.
Does anyone out there think that this theme change on my iBook could have destroyed something in my system folder?
Besides the missing menu bar icons, my whole system has become very unstable--the only programs I can use without a "**** has unexpectedly quit" notification are Safari, Mail, and iChat. Confusing..
I am ready to do a clean/reinstall, but I just wanted to know if anyone knew why this is so.
(Last edited by rozwado1; Feb 24, 2003 at 06:13 PM.
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2002
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are you running norton anything? had this same problem, wiped my drive reinstalled WITHOUT norton, been fine since. also had a friend with the same expierence after he installed norton.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Miami Beach
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Yep. I'm running Norton Systemworks 2. I can't believe Symantec would release a POS program that would do this.
Anyone else have these problems?
What do you use for anti-virus now?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Fort Luderdale FL USA
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Yeah...Norton is killing my system to , it appeARS... SLOW startups, and s***!! like that.
What is u just turn Norton off that would not be enough?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Capital city of the Empire State.
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Norton Utilities puts a couple of items in /Library/Startup Items, and also adds a couple of .kext files to /System/Library/Extensions. To do a thorough job of deNortonizing your system, you will need to delete all of these. Some identify themselves as Norton such-and-such, but some are just called "Sym"-something (stands for Symantic, naturally).
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/mal
"I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up."
MacBook Pro 15"/2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/4 GB DDR2 SDRAM/200 GB Hitachi HD/8x SuperDrive/Mac OS X 10.6.1
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Apr 2000
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Norton software is awful. Don't ever let it touch any piece of hardware.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: planet express
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yep, i say it again and again. donīt even TOUCH that malevolent norton-crap with a 10-feet-pole. really, itīs serious malware (does that word even exist?) and does nothing but getting you into troubles. DONīT.
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"And Zapp Brannigan, your score qualifies you as assistant delivery boy, second class."
"Hmm. I guess I'll have to sleep my way to the top. Kif, wake me when I'm there."
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: planet express
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yep, i say it again and again. donīt even TOUCH that malevolent norton-crap with a 10-feet-pole. really, itīs serious malware (does that word even exist?) and does nothing but getting you into troubles. just DONīT.
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"And Zapp Brannigan, your score qualifies you as assistant delivery boy, second class."
"Hmm. I guess I'll have to sleep my way to the top. Kif, wake me when I'm there."
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Athens, Ohio
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Wow. I just ran Norton on my disk last night, and BAM!! no more starting up for me. Fortunately, I have an emergency partition for just this type of thing.
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