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After installing Mountain Lion the finder application does not autostart (including the top bar and desktop icons). I can start it manually or by opening another application, and all works normally except that i can not shut down, restart or go to sleep from the apple menu. It is however possible to use reboot and halt from the terminal. Does anyone have idears for fixing this? Any help would be appreciated.
- Mads

Try booting in Recovery HD (holding down cmd-r keys) and repair disk and repair disk permissions (but turn off Filevault if you use it).
Any unresponsive file servers? Have you disconnected peripherals such as flash cards or other drives?
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http://www.statusq.org/archives/2011/08/16/3495/

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