Bluetooth icon in taskbar missing

hi , just looking on my macbook pro and my bluetooth icon is missing form my top taskbar. checked its turned on and it is , is there a way to bring it back . any reason why it went ???
many thanks .

The toolbar's contents are "controlled" by this file...
com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
Search for this file in spotlight. In my case, there were actually TWO for whatever reason...And any changes I made to one were being ignored...
Anyway, drag any occurrances of this file to the Trash Bin, and then make all the additions/changes to the toolbar you want again. (Show time and date? Show AirPort status? Show Bluetooth icon? et al)
Re-boot, and you should be OK.
This drove me nuts for a couple of months - until I discovered and deleted that SECOND .plist file!
Clint Bradford
909-241-7666

Similar Messages

  • Greetings: I have just acquired an older mini mac (2006 1.66 ghz core 2 duo) Anyway, it had Tiger 10.4 on it and the Bluetooth worked.  I upgraded to Snow Leopard and everything works fine - except Bluetooth. The Bluetooth icon isn't there. Any ideas?

    Greetings:
    I have just acquired an older mini mac (2006 1.66 ghz core 2 duo) Anyway, it had Tiger 10.4 on it and the Bluetooth worked for the wireless Apple keyboard and mouse.  I upgraded to Snow Leopard and everything works fine - everything except Bluetooth.
    The Bluetooth icon does not exist in the System Preferenc screen.
    I tried to download Bluetooth from Apple site but the message I got told me that I didn't need it. 
    Under Finder, Utilities, I found Bluetooth File Exchange but the message I got was that I had to connect a Bluetooth device to my computer.
    I have to admit that I have no idea what's going on here.  I am hoping to avert the need to try another complete re-install of Snow Leopard.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks
    javaminit

    Puzzled is a polite word for it.
    Thanks Barry - I found the file and trie to send it to trash.  The response: (This item cannot be trashed as it it owned by the system).
    After dancing around with PRAM and SMC and turning on while holding the power-cntrl-option-shift and heavens knows what else, I now have the Bluetooth symbol on the top of the menu bar but it is ghoseted and has a squiggly line through it.   This, I didn't have before so I read this as some progress.  It notes that "Bluetooth is not available">
    However, the Bluetooth icon is still missing from the System Preferences window - you know, between "network" and "sharing".
    You note that you reckon the issue is not software based and you may be correct.  The reason that I wonder about that though, is that before I installed Snow Leopard, the keyboard and mouse both paired with the box under the Tiger 10.4.  That leads me to conclude that hardware is functional and that there is some screwy little bit of software that is not cooperating.
    If I could delete Bluetooth from the system and re-install a fresh version, that might help.  Or, is there a way I can use the Snow Leopard install disc and only load in Bluetooth?
    I'm stumped.
    Thanks for your time
    /Bill C.

  • Missing options of "Enter Private Browsing" "Open new tab" and "Open new window" when right click (right context menu) firefox icon on taskbar

    Missing options of "Enter Private Browsing" "Open new tab" and "Open new window" when right click (right context menu) firefox icon on taskbar.
    i already tired complete uninstall and reinstall, but the options are still missing.
    print scr: http://www.freeimagehosting.net/9znkp
    Thank You in advance for help. Best regards

    Hello,
    ''jstavene wrote:''
    can find nothing under the tools menu for private browsing?
    Then it's not the same issue.
    If Firefox is set to '''Never remember history''', then you're in “permanent private browsing” mode, in which case the menu item ''Stop Private Browsing'' will be grayed out. Perhaps that's the case, and you don't find the menu item easy to see?
    * [[Settings for privacy, browsing history and do-not-track]]
    If that's not the case, then menu items can be hidden using the userChrome.css file. Check if it exists, and if it's there, rename it, then restart Firefox.
    * http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css
    In Firefox Nightly (what will become Firefox 20), per-window private browsing has been added, so the menu item under the Tools menu is gone. It's been replaced by New Private Window under the File menu. I don't suppose it's very likely that you're using such a cutting-edge test version of Firefox though.
    If that doesn't solve the problem, since it's a different issue, it would be best if you would ask a new question.
    * https://support.mozilla.org/questions/new

  • Missing internet connection icon in taskbar

    Missing internet connection icon in taskbar windows xp 8250

    A system restore will not do it, you would have to do a full system
    REPAIR.
    If you copy Just the keys above and past them into notepad and save them to your desktop as any name you want, just make sure they have a *.reg extension, then double click on them and the keys will be added to your regristry.  There are two keys above
    so make two *.reg files.
    This will make one file:
    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7007ACCF-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}]
    @="Network Connections Tray"
    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7007ACCF-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}\DefaultIcon]
    [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7007ACCF-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}\InProcServer32]
    @="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\NETSHELL.dll"
    "ThreadingModel"="Both"
    This will make the other file:
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{7007ACCF-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}]
    @="Network Connections Tray"
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{7007ACCF-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}\DefaultIcon]
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{7007ACCF-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}\InProcServer32]
    @="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\NETSHELL.dll"
    "ThreadingModel"="Both"
    When the key's have been added to your registry you must reboot for them to take effect.
    Remember, these keys are for XP, do not know about other OS's
    Brogan2

  • Bluetooth Icon missing from the notification tray on my Z61m

    Trying to utilize my Bluetooth features on my Z61m. Several instructions tell me to access the Bluetooth Icon in the notification area of my display; however it is not there & we have been unable to locate the necessary information available to us. We have checked on the firmware for the latest version & are currently running V2.1.211.299

    Got no replies...

  • Bluetooth icon missing iOS 6

    I've just got my hands on an iphone 5, whilst setting up have turned on my bluetooth through the settings app and whilst in this menu the bluetooth icon appears next to the battery icon however when out of this and back on the home/lock screen I have no idea whether its switched on, without constantly checking if this function is on I can see my abttery being drained pretty quick, any ideas??

    I have bluetooth problem with Creative Sound Blasteraxx SBX 20 when I upgraded iphone4, ipad2 and ipad3 to ios 6.
    There seemed the bluetooth session is prone to some interruptions. The music stopped playing but the bluetooth session is inact. The sound blaster has blue led and iphone4 show " connected". I will to reset by turning off the bluetooth and reconnect again. Then only will the music from iphone4 is played at sound blasteraxx SBX20. I have to kept doing this again and again when the music stopped. This does not happen before the upgrade. I used Creative BT-D5 a bluetooth socket connector to iphone4 and paired it with Sound Blasteraxx SBX20. I played for hours without any session being lost. I have seen iphone wifi suddenly went from "connected" to " not connected" in iphone4 setting. Before upgrade the disconnection would never appear on its own. I suspect the ios bluetooth and wifi are prone to interruption and they cannot prrform automatically recovery. It needs manual reset to get bluetooth and wifi working.

  • Bluetooth icon not showing up in menu bar

    Usually, the Bluetooth icon always shows up in my menu bar upon start-up. Lately it has not been appearing. In my system preferences, the show blue-tooth icon in menu bar is checked. If I uncheck it and then check it again it shows up where it is supposed to be in the menu bar. But if I restart my Mac it is missing again. At the present time I am not using any Bluetooth devices but would like to know how to get the icon to appear every time so that I know that it is working properly. Can anybody answer my question or has anybody else noticed this? Thanks.
    Mac Mini   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   PowerPC 1.5

    Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and enter ~/Library/Preferences/ as the folder's location. Once this folder has appeared, move the item named com.apple.systemuiserver.plist to another folder, log out, and log back in.
    Alternatively, add the item Bluetooth.menu in the /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/ folder to the list of login items for your account in the Accounts pane of System Preferences.
    (18442)

  • X300: bluetooth blue on taskbar but cannot find any device (stack error)

    Hello, most likely after installing SP3 or the latest Access connections file, 7xcx23ww.exe, I am unable to connect to any bluetooth device. 
    the latest Bluetooth with Enhanced data rate software for xp 5.5.0.6400 has been applied, as well as Microsoft Bluetooth Support file for Bluetooth with Enhanced Data Rate for Windows XP, ver 2.0 .
    Is there something i am missing here?  The task bar shows the Bluetooth icon in blue, but it cannot find any local bluetooth device. 
    Clifford

    Apple claims the iphone supports bluetooth tethering for the hotspot, did I recieve some incorrect information?  Also the hotspot is less than ideal.  It rarely appears on my 2011 macbook or my wife's iphone.  Any help with this stuff other than Apple is behind the 8 ball

  • How to enable bluetooth icon in task bar in rmbp with windows 8

    The bluetooth icon dose not be showed in task bar in rmbp with windows 8.
    The device of bluetooth dose not work correctly in device manager of windows 8 with the yellow exclamation mark.
    The windows system event log shows BTHUSB alerts and error with code of 3 and 17. The driver is unloaded.
    Some apple magic mouse's functions can work, without sliding to navigate.
    The current OS is in bios enumeration mode with MBR and The logged user is in the normal account and the bootcamp is newest.
    I have remembered that the bluetooth was good without above problems when the windows 8 was installed firstly and the bootcamp can not work in administrator account. After being restored NVRAM with option+command+p+r and reinstalled windows 8 enterprise 64 completely again, it shows these problems when the bootcamp works well.
    Except the first windows installation, the second time is selecting EFI boot and the last time is in normal mode,  which has no difference in the bluetooth problem. In a normal or administrator account,  the same problems appear.

    The bluetooth drive problems have disappeared after the following steps:
    reset intel SMC
    remove the bluetooth device with yellow mark.
    scan system device changes. find 3 devices without any yellow mark: (a) Apple Broadcom Built-in Bluetooth, (b) Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator, (c) Microsoft Bluetooth LE Enumerator.
    find magic mouse and it works well with all functions. and the icon appears in the taskbar.
    no BTHUSB error is  in system log.
    I don't know the right reasons. Maybe the efi windows installation has changed rmbp efi settings.

  • Bluetooth icon disappeared from menu bar

    Hi. For a while, my Bluetooth icon was moving around the menu bar and now it has disappeared. I have Bluetooth enabled, but the icon is missing. How do I get it back? Is there a way to customize the menu bar?
    Thanks

    Same experience here. For a while, my Bluetooth menu icon has been shifting around and now it has totally disappeared. Going to System preferences to click the bluetooth menu icon on and off doesn't help. I wonder which preference file we can delete to reset the menu icon positions and visibility.

  • Office 2013 - Incorrect Icons In Taskbar When Apps Running

    Hi,
    I have a a strange issue relating to Office 2013 (all apps in suite) in our school based Windows 7 domain environment.
    When students login and run any app from the office suite they launch correctly and are able to be used.  However the icon that is displayed in the task bar for say, Word, is not that of Word but is the icon for Database Compare 2013.  Powerpoint
    as another example always displays the Publisher icon.  If you right click the icon the options available also refer to the incorrect app, so instead of an option to bring the Powerpoint app to the forefront it says Publisher.
    The incorrect icon is always the same one for each app whenever launched and is the same for all users.
    We have updated Windows and the Office to the latest patches.  Possibly worth noting that we are running this config on Apple iMacs using bootcamped Windows 7 but I don't personally believe this has any bearing as it's only Office related.I have search
    for instances of this issue and see there is a hotfix for incorrect icons when in a remote session rather than physically logged onto a machine.  I also see references to deleting the icon cache for the user but local user profiles are scrapped on the
    machines here when the student logs off.
    Any help or pointers are greatly appreciated.
    Kind Regards
    Radar.

    I've reviewed screenshot from you initial post on Answer forum.
    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-office_install/office-2013-incorrect-icons-in-taskbar-when-apps/ef99ce77-1e88-44c5-8214-c6c69837a9ae
    Since the icon shows fine in local but only incorrect through RDP session, I am thinking this might not be the promblem of Office application self. RDP session might not load the correct icon for Office duo to the file permission or wrong path.
    Better to post your question to forum for Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-us/home?forum=winserverTS
    Thanks for your understanding.
    Tony Chen
    TechNet Community Support

  • My Safari icon/app is missing. I How do i get it back? I try settings - general - restrictions - safari - off / on but doesn't work

    My Safari icon/app is missing. I How do i get it back? I try settings - general - restrictions - safari - off / on but doesn't work

    First, it might be you simply put Safari in a folder somewhere. Try searching for it using Spotlight. Drag down on the screen to display the Spotlight search bar and type "Safari". If you see Safari, it is still accessible on your iPad. If not, try the following.
    Reset your iPad by simultaneously pressing and holding the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons until you see the Apple Logo. This can take up to 15 seconds so be patient and don't release the buttons until the logo appears. Try again to see if the problem persists.
    Finally, if that doesn't help, try turning off restrictions, then turning them back on.

  • Is there a way to put the bluetooth icon on the homepage?

    I pair my iphone with my car when I'm driving. Is there a way to put the bluetooth icon on the homepage so I don't have to go through settings to turn the bluetooth on and off?
    I don't like to leave the bluetooth on all the time because it drains the battery, but it's kinda a pain to have to go through settings everytime I want to use this feature.
    On my last cell phone I could assign a "hot key" to automatically turn the bluetooth on and off. I really liked that. This bluetooth system seems a little dated to me.

    No not yet, hopfully soon.

  • Mac osx 10.4.11 removes bluetooth icon

    I just installed 10.4.11 and i now have no bluetooth icon on my menu bar?? What happened to it?

    I have no idea what happened to it, but you can easily get it back by going to >System Preferences...>Bluetooth>Settings>Show Bluetooth Status in menu bar.
    Good luck!

  • My Safari Icon ( Button) is missing in my iMac after I downloaded a update. How can I get the icon back on my desktop and connecting again to the Internet ?...

    My Safari Icon ( Button) is missing on my iMac after I downloaded a update. How can I get the icon  (Button Safari) back on my desktop and connecting again to the Internet ?...
    Thanks for the help    

    Often when people think they've deleted an application, what's really happened is that they deleted its icon from the Dock. In the Finder, select
    Go ▹ Applications
    from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-A to open the Applications folder. If the application is in that folder, drag it to the Dock (not to the Desktop or anywhere else.) The other Dock icons will move out of the way to make a place for it.

Maybe you are looking for