Top menu bar not permanently visible. HELP
a friend borrowed my laptop and when it got back to me, the top menu bar is invisible whenever i'm browsing or opening application. it only appears if i move my mouse over to the top... i want it to be permanently visible all the time so i don't have to move my mouse over all the time. HELP! thanks.
Your friend must have installed some third-party hack to make that happen.
There appears to be a lot of Google hits on the subject.
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I need to know if you can move or make the top menu bar disapear - I have a program that opens up and the top part of the program is hidden underneath it and I can't move the window to get to the programs controls.
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I don't know what application you talking about, but did you try to trash the preferences of that application.
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Some background and a few ideas for you to try —
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MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,1
1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
8 GB RAM
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APPLE HDD ST500LM012 disk0 : (500,11 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499,25 GB (323,02 GB free)
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Logitech USB Optical Mouse
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[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
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Hi everyone,
I have just bought Photoshop Elements 8 after using PSE5 for about 18 months or so. I am having difficulty in reading the top menu bar where the black text is shown against a very dark grey (dark sea grey in model aeroplane terms). Can any one tell me if it is possible to change the colour/shade of this top menu bar to some more easily visible combination, say something like PSE5, with which I had no problems?
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Dr. How.Unfortunately, your only options are that, or the white on black (preferences>general), which is actually less awful for most people (a bit more contrast), but still not good.
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SkyDaughter29 wrote:
My current situation: I have soooo many texts on my iphone and I haven't deleted many because I need the information contained in them for future reference and for legal purposes. I would really like to find a means and way to save them other than on the phone itself. I've done searches for various apps yet I'm not finding what I think I would need. It appears Apple does not sync the texts between the iphone and my MacBook Pro.
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have installed cc2014, menues are not fully visible. when changing font, system (all new sony vaio, win 8.1) crashes completely
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