Hi grichter, I'm running a Mac set-up and am not having these issues. I suspect it's the process you might be using to move the pallets. It is import to follow these steps in this order: 1) Preferences => General => Full Screen => close => quite Carrara and relaunch 2) Click the "detach" button on the properties pallet on the right. Resize smaller and move to second monitor 3) The sequencer/timeline can be detached by Apple-Option clicking the header bar - I usually move that to the second monitor also. 4) Quit Carrara to save changes and relaunch. Minimize/full screen modes are working ok here (although I usually just Apple-H to hide it). The Carrara full screen mode does cover the native/standard pull-down menus at the top but they are replaced with Carrara's version of them. We'll get it working for 'ya!