Restore missing menu bar in Lion?

I had the same missing menubar on my brand new MacMini running Lion without installing anything fancy

I discovered that it had to do with my display. Apparently the menubar is there but my Samsung display shows the menubar outside viewable area! I tried a few resolutions and got part of teh menubar in some lower resolutions

You can still access teh bar by clicking and guessing.

Solution that worked for me:

System preferences>display>increase underscan slider in order for menubar to appear

Good luck

That sounds like a different issue to the one described here

Hey Guys,

I have had the same problem... I've even reinstalled lion and still have same problem.

Also when restarting in safe mode i don't have audio icon - so no audio. but after restart again, it all works fine.

But restart or turn off after that and i have to do it all again.

Have Apple seriously got no solution for this problem???

I have found that if I move my mouse to the top of the sreen and nudge the edge of the screen the top menu bar will drop down. It's just hidden. I can't seem to find a setting in iTunes Preferneces to 'unhide' the menu bar. Annoying but at least it's there.

Yes, my new mac mini with viewsonic monitor had exactly the problem you described, too.

Thanx, anjikn

DK1967, thank you, thank you, thank you! It worked!!!

re menu bar missing. You've got to go to View, exit full screen mode, then reopen a page and move arrows to corners of the page to make them the size you want. Close the window. When you reopen, Presto! all is restored. I don't exactly know how it gets tripped up, but I had to spend some time figuring this one out. When opening a new page it will be the size of the previous page. Just remember take the arrows and move the page in or out to the desired size, close window, reopen, and all will be in sight again.