Dock disappears when i hover the mouse on it

Brand new 27" iMac, the dock dissapears when I hover mouse over it, making it impossible to open apps.
I have to open via mission control...any ideas folks??

Try changing the settings for the Dock in system preferences, 'Automatically hide and show Dock'

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My itunes opens but then then when i hover the mouse on the itunes window there is just a blue circle

My itunes opens but then then when i hover the mouse on the itunes window there is just a blue circle

Hold the shift key upon boot, that will disable any boot loading third party kernel extension files.
Once you get in:
1: backup your user file folders to a external storage drive
2: go around and update all your third party software everywhere, including right clicking on third party system preference panes and removing them if necessary
3: any third party software that can't be updated, consider removing.
4: Look in your Console log files for "kernal protection" type messages to get a clue what's causing your problems.
Read about Gray, White and Blue, Kernel Panics here, they are usually always caused by third party software incompatibilities, but not always.
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The "text in a yellow box" that appears when I hover the mouse over a selection or help tag.

The "help tag" (Or in most cases the unwanted tag) often is in the way of what I want to look at.
This is especially true when you are looking at an item that has it's own pop up giving you a description or information.
When you hold the mouse over say.... a movie icon in XFinity, the icon of the movie expands and gives a brief synopsis, date and actors of said movie.
Unfortunately, I cannot read the synopsis for the "Help Tag" blocks all the content forcing you to try different ways of pointing to the movie icon so you can read parts of the discretion from every angle of approach then piece it altogether in your mind.
I DO NOT want "help tag". It is extremely annoying and time consuming ergo it des not "help" it hinders.
Can it not be disabled (Like balloon help in OS 9) so you do not have to feel anger and frustration every time you see that yellow tag?

Ooo, I did not notice the article was from 2007. Thansk for pointing that out. I don't think I am going to try it. It seems that with all the "little" apps the seem to keep growing in numbers, someone will come up with a solid program that would wok through system prefs. I would pay the normal $20.00 for an app like that.

I once used this add on which when I hover the mouse on a word/link, a pop up will show of the meaning/image of the word, or search results. What's the add on?

I am looking for this particular add on or app which allows me to hover my mouse over a word or link and a pop up will appear beside such word or link showing either a picture or meaning of the word or a preview of the link. Sometimes it shows suggestions of sites relating to the word (almost similar to search results). I used it before but I cannot remember anymore what it was called. I would like to use it again.

Hi. I have had a look around I think I have found something that may help. Give an addon called "Wiktionary and Google Translate" a go. You can find it [https://addons.mozilla.org/En-US/firefox/addon/google-dictionary-and-google-t/ here].
Feel free to leave the developer of the addon some feedback if you like it. It looks really useful, I might be tempted to use this one myself.

X does not appear when I hover the mouse over posts on fb site...

stopped working... thought facebook had changed something...
uninstalled and reinstalled firefox today
I did save my old settings

That problem can be caused by the Yahoo! Toolbar or the Babylon extension that extents too much downwards and covers the top part of the browser window and thus makes links and buttons in that part of the screen not clickable.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

Under Tools/Error console, I keep getting a load of error messages. How do I stop this? Also, when I hover my mouse over something, I get a small blank box instead of expected info.

How do I stop all of the error messages under; Tools/ error console?
Why do I get a small blank box instead of the expected information when I hover the mouse over something?

Hi,
Try the following steps:
1. Check windows updates.
2. Try the Microsoft Fix it in this kb to remove previous install completely:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2739501/en-us
3. Reboot.
4. Try installing again.
This seems helpful on the issue.
As always, thank you for your suggestion, Don:)
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Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

My dock disappears when I am using Word. How can I get it back on the screen?

My dock disappears when I am using Word. How can I get it back on the screen? Thanks very much.
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You may have blundered into "Full Screen" mode, an abomination ported from iOS, the iPhone Operating System, land of tiny screens and one-at-a-time Applications.
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On my Mac desktop I must have changed a setting so that now when I move the mouse the open windows fly off to the sides and I can't see them. They come back when I move the mouse, but it is so annoying. How can I make the windows not disappear like that?

On my Mac desktop I must have changed a setting so that now when I move the mouse the open windows fly off to the sides and I can't see them. They come back when I move the mouse, but it is so annoying. How can I make the windows not disappear like that?

Click on the Hot Corners.. button and look at the four definitions. In the picture below, if you moved the cursor to the right top of the screen, it would slide all the applications off the screen as you describe and show the desktop. Set it to "-" to deactivate.

Why does the color change in my forms when I hover with mouse?

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Hi Tara ,
Please refer to the following links and see how it goes .
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/advanced-pdf-print-settings.html
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19728-01/820-2550/printing_pdffonts.html
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After updating to 9.0.1, the drop-down Bookmarks list "freezes" open when I hover with mouse on any entry. Have to start over if I land on the wrong bookmark (I have imac w OSX 10.5.8)

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if you got an external drive , try install a system on it then boot from it ( in that way your internal drive act as an external drive , then you can backup your files )
Firstly IF I have an un-bootable install, why would it suddenly become bootable if I used it externally rather than internally?
Anyways I tried to Create Image from my Macintosh HD and save it to external, and got this error:
"Unable to Create: input/output error"
This happened twice. I am about to use a different external HD, one which also has more space.
And Klaus,
I did read through the links you supplied. In the first link there is a giant list of all the files the archive function backs up. It backs up a lot, but not quite everything. If it backed up everything, they could just say "everything".
The directory I'm concerned with is the /Applications one. It seems the only things backed up in this directory are specific Apple apps, for exapmple:
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/Applications/Clock.app
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I have many many GB worth of other apps I'd love to be able to load back up, rather than spend hours re-installing them.
But I will try to use the Archive and Install feature though, once I have safely backed up my files. I found this on the Apple site also:
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The tabs disappeared at the top, and when I move the mouse up to the top, they do not reappear and I am stuck on the page!

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Why do items disappear when moved to the desktop?

Why do items disappear when moved to the desktop?

Are you perhaps referring to dragging an item out of the Dock and onto the Desktop?
If so, they are intended to poof-disappear when you do that.
The reason - the icons shown in the Dock are a form of alias, not the real item. Any running app will have its icon shown there; and those that do appear there can be made to stick even when the program is quit. This means that there must be a mechanism to get rid of them, else there would eventually be too many. One way is to right-click or Control-click the item, then select Remove from the popup menu that appears. A more convenient way is to just drag them off of the Dock and have them disappear.
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Now that I've upgraded to Lion, about 50% of the time when I click the mouse it acts as if I've right clicked. How do I get back to the way it was?!

I am working on two macbooks and an imac. I upgraded all the software last weekend and am now running all three computers on Lion. Over the last week, about 50% of the time when I click the mouse (whether it be the "pad" mouse on the macbooks or the standard mouse on my imac) it acts as thought I've right-clicked. How do I stop this insanity?! I want my old no-right-click mouses back!
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Try this,
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Uncheck the box that says "Tap to Click"
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Why does added text disappear when I move the cursor

After adding text to an unprotected .pdf file the text disappears when I move the cursor and want to add a second box of text. The text in the first box reappears when I double click on the space where the box was. How do I set the text so that it remains visible and printable?

Hi,
I think the data in the PDF file was filled-in using MAC preview.
One option is to ask the user to fill the file again using Adobe Reader or Acrobat.
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Regards,
Anoop

Dock disappears when i hover the mouse on it

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