Hi Norm:
What that means is that Word is exiting and clearing its icons from the menu
bar, then the system is cleaning up a bit later.
The system owns the menu bar, not Word. The system does the cleanup when it
has nothing better to do. On my system, this all happens too fast to see.
If it takes a while, that indicates that "something" is slowing things down.
It could be "anything", so absent any further problems, I would not go
looking for trouble. If there is a real problem, it will come and find you
soon enough
For example, if you turn the power-saving to max on a laptop and allow the
hard disks to go to sleep, that will do it. There's nothing wrong: the
system is simply waiting for the disk to spin up so it can save the Normal
template and the prefs.
If it's not a laptop, it can be an indication that the system is struggling
for memory, or that the disk is too full.
I think I would wait for a more definitive indication of trouble, if I were
you. If it's memory, the system will be slow in other ways also, and will
eventually start complaining. If the disk is below 90 per cent full, then
it's not the disk (or at least, it's not that, it may still be that the disk
is going to sleep due to the power saving settings...)
Cheers
I've noticed since upgrading to Snow Leopard that when I quit Word 2008
it takes a long time, as it always had, but now the Menu Bar changes so
on the "left" end there is just the Apple icon and then a Script icon
next to it (where the running application title is normally).
Is this normal or should I go on a search for answers to this and
perhaps other yet to see problems?
Thanks for any tips.
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