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Jul 18, 2006, 09:09 AM
 
I am working with a G4 PowerBook running 10.4.7. Yesterday for some reason, some odd OS-level stuff started happening.

Under the apple, the lower menu items are listed twice. For example it looks like:
Restart...
Restart...
Logout
Logout

There are weird boxes around boxes in various programs. For example, there is a box around the back button in Safari.

Any ideas why the comuter is doing this? Any solutions to stop it?

Also, if I log into a different user, it goes away.

-Clif
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Jul 18, 2006, 09:21 AM
 
Turn off Voice Over in the Universal Access system preferences.
     
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Jul 18, 2006, 10:20 AM
 
Originally Posted by TETENAL
Turn off Voice Over in the Universal Access system preferences.

also, check the key command to turn it on (in keyboard prefs); this problem happens a lot to quark users, there's a matching key command.
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That was it - thanks!
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