Ah, You're the man!!! Making the main window smaller did not do it, but I "undocked" the now playing window and indeed on a whole different part of the screen it was floating all by itself!
Thank you so much, back to playing with the now playing.....

Try to make the main window smaller and see if you didn't hide it behind the main window by moving the main window around to look behind it. Also make sure it isn't docked somewhere else in MediaMonkey.

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Do you mean that the Now Playing Controls are enabled, but you can't find it?

I tried that before and just again: it gives the player controls but not the buttons with the menus for clear and find doubles. The show now playing controls does not seem to do anything.

Right click on the Now Playing window and select View to enable the 2 available toolbars.

I have been looking around but could not find this problem: All at the sudden I lost my buttons at the bottom of the now playing list. The list button where you can load and save, and more important the edit button with clear and find doubles and randomize.
I even reinstalled the latest version, but they stay gone.

Please help in layman terms, I am a ignoramus when it comes to computers and software.