Menu Bar disappeared?? iMac

[adrianzag]

Hi,

I recently bought a new iMac which is working great, running Yosemite 10.10.4

In the menu / status bar (top-right near the clock, volume, spotlight icons etc) there was circular type of icon which when I clicked on it showed the status of CPU usage, memory usage and disc space etc. Kind of like activity monitor but much less fussy and more convenient.

Annoyingly I stupidly pressed "quit' when I was using it. It disappeared from my Status bar and I don't know what it was called to get it back there.

Any ideas?

Thanks!


Adrian

 

[cradom]

Considering Macs don't come with something like that by default it's something you installed.
Check your Applications folder and/or System Preferences. Probably something like iStat or similar.

 

[adrianzag]

Thanks but no, there isn't a third party app that I can see, I'd already checked for iStat and the like.

Weirdly it was there on the status bar as default when I first opened up my iMac...?

 

[chscag]

There are several apps which have a menu bar icon that shows stats such as hard drive space, CPU usage, etc. The one that Craig mentioned "iStat Menus" is the most popular but it's not a free app. The Mac App Store lists several other apps which do the same thing. It could be that you had a test or trial version loaded of one of those apps. In any event, it didn't get put there by itself.

 

[bobtomay]

Restart your computer.

 

[Rod]

Sound a bit like App Tamer. below is a shot of mine in action. If that's it look in applications folder and restart it.

 

[adrianzag]

Thanks guys for all the replies. It looked a bit like app tamer but that's not it.

I must've downloaded the app inadvertently as an add-on to something unconnected - maybe an expander, or Clean My Mac 3?

 

[Rod]

Lastly, there is the possibility it is a startup item so shutting down and starting up again might just return it to the menu bar.

 

[adrianzag]

Ok I solved it. It was CMM3. I opened it and bingo, the thing I've been banging on about is there in the Status Bar. If you click on the CMM icon it opens out that info.

I know Mac aficionados hate CMM but I've never had a problem with it - I ran it on my old MBPro 2007 through two OS incarnations and the old girl is still working like a dream.

Anyhow thanks to all for their help!

AZ

 

[Rod]

Not all of us are against CMM, I've been using it since it came out with never a problem and I often find myself defending it on this forum.
Like any tool it's how you use it and CMM has some unique functions which I really like.


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