Recover missing menu bar icons in OSX

A while ago I started encountering a strange effect on my laptop. Every once in a while, all menu bar icons disappeared. Only the Spotlight icon was left, the rest of my menu bar was grey. Turns out that a part of OSX called SystemUIServer.app is responsible for displaying the stuff in the menu bar.

To get your menu bar icons back, it may help to restart SystemUIServer by doubleclicking it in /System/Library/CoreServices or copy and paste the following command into a Terminal window:

open /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app

Hope this works out for you, feel free to leave a comment!

Posted by Jannis Hermanns in Nerdalert at 10:56 | Comments (18) | Trackbacks (0)

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Diese Obstcomputer sind auch nicht für eine funtkionierende Produktivumgebung konstruiert, da braucht man eine professionelle Microsoft Lösung wie Vista oder Powerpoint, kann man das doch ganz einfach malen.

Immer diese Nonkonformisten mit ihren Applebooks

#1 commander (Homepage) on 2008-05-06 11:32 (Reply)

Bereits seit Jahren setze ich erfolgreich auf MacApple-PCs.

#1.1 Jannis (Homepage) on 2008-05-07 11:57 (Reply)

This helped me a lot; thanks.

#2 Andy on 2008-05-07 00:59 (Reply)

Thanks so much for posting this. I knew I couldn't be the first person to have this problem.

#3 Karp on 2008-11-10 00:26 (Reply)

Thanks, Andy and Karp for leaving a comment :-) I'm glad the post was useful for someone.

#4 Jannis (Homepage) on 2008-11-10 13:29 (Reply)

awesome
thanks for solving my problem

#5 rick p on 2008-11-14 23:52 (Reply)

It worked for me. Tx.

#6 Krishna Prasad on 2009-02-02 20:11 (Reply)

Thanks alot, now my wife wont have to kill me for "messing with her computer"
Cheers!

#7 Petter on 2009-02-21 13:34 (Reply)

Great topic!

#8 fil on 2009-02-28 13:31 (Reply)

Thanks! It worked immediately! :)

#9 Ev on 2009-05-06 11:05 (Reply)

Wow . . . Thanks! Nothing else worked.

#10 Bruce Berman on 2009-07-06 22:17 (Reply)

It worked, until I rebooted. Then the problem resurfaced.

:(

#11 Hannah on 2009-07-09 11:07 (Reply)

Yay! Let's see what happens after reboot. Much thanks.

#12 Macmonkeymark on 2009-08-17 08:03 (Reply)

Awesome Thanks a lot!

#13 Me on 2009-12-02 05:55 (Reply)

All I did was double click the icon and things have been great so far!

#14 s on 2010-01-22 02:23 (Reply)

Thanks a LOT! :)

#15 Vik on 2010-05-19 09:49 (Reply)

That worked perfectly-- thank you so much!

#16 Anonymous on 2010-07-06 17:34 (Reply)

Cool :-)

#16.1 Jannis (Homepage) on 2010-07-06 18:18 (Reply)

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