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mikefly

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Jan 4, 2007
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Hi all,

Hard Drive failed, and had to reinstall everything. Apple took good care of me, and many props to them.

When using finder, my menu bar is fine -- when I use any other app, it shrinks to half its height, and i get the desktop image for half the height.

How can I fix this?

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mikefly

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jan 4, 2007
183
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hm

eenteresting..

After I reinstalled, I did a software update of everything... but apparently not - strange.

So, I'm currently d/ling a 200 MB update (java, qt, airport, migration, security)

maybe one of those will help...

will advise once update is finished.

Thanks!
 

maclover001

macrumors 6502a
Mar 25, 2008
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Vancouver, Canada
Anytime.

Something similar once happened with my old Vista PC. Half of the wallpaper was just black and only half of the taskbar was showing. A simple driver update fixed it.

Then it came back a week later. Thats when I bought the MacBook :D
 

mikefly

macrumors regular
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Jan 4, 2007
183
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..

cool, software update done, and all seems well with the world - easy cure.

I wonder why I only got a partial software update the first time round.

Thanks for the help.
 

mikefly

macrumors regular
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Jan 4, 2007
183
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nope. and nope.

will upgrade OS if it becomes necessary - so far, tiger does all i need it to, and generally pretty well.
 
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