[Hidden-tech] weird OS "glitches"

[Dave Linnehan]

Tom,
Have you checked to see if VoiceOver is enabled?  Seeing items listed twice
like that usually indicates voiceover is enabled, and it is a "feature" so
that the Apple menu items can be used.




On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Tom / Reelife Productions <
tomadams at gmail.com> wrote:

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> hoping someone out there may be able to help.  Just yesterday I started
> noticing weird black boxes surrounding anything that I click on whether it
> be a file on my desktop or around the perimeter of a webpage, etc.  it goes
> away when I click on something else...but today it seems getting worse.  I'm
> working on a very new mac pro (desktop) with OS 10.5. This
> weird behavior would indicate  ... dare even mention the word.... "virus".
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> ALSO- when I click on the apple in top left corner - i see that "Restart",
> "Shutdown" and "Logout" are listed TWICE in the drop down menu! scary stuff?
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> The only things I can think of that might be related is
> 1) I've downloaded a few small utility apps in the last few weeks from
> version tracker that may be of questionable stability...
> 2) I started using spaces pretty heavily and noticed some screen anomalies,
> so I stopped.
> 3) I turned on "web sharing" in the preferences for a few hours-  a couple
> days ago
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> I tried disk utility but it didn't find anything ...  any hints? hopefully
> it won't get worse? I've attached 2 screen grabs to show you what I mean.
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