Weird Black boxes

Trying to guess your question,

Go to system preferences->Universal Access

Make sure that VoiceOver is set to Off

shmoo235 said:

Hey

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Actually I guessed the same as swiftaw, but I was beaten to it.

shmoo235 said:

Hey all again....has anyone had this problem....black boxes are appearing on my desktop and in each window I open. Random placements maybe around an icon, a word or just in the middle of the window..also I have 2 shutdowns, 2 restarts and 2 logouts under the apple.....no new downloads, apps or attachments.....any ideas would be appreciated....thanks

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Read my post above ^^^^^^^

Mmmm, as for the multiple entries in the Apple menu, i've never seen or heard of that before, sorry.

shmoo235 said:

My question now is what is that about? why the double shut down, restart, logouts and black boxes?

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The double Apple menu items is a "side effect" of having VoiceOver turned on. One of the "double" items has a "..." after it, and the other doesn't--the extra one without the "..." executes that action without a confirmation dialogue, I believe. So you don't have to wait for the OS to read "Do you want to shut down..." out loud.

The black boxes are visually showing what VoiceOver is reading.

Confirm that turning the feature on and off does the same for me. Thanks for the education! I'll keep a mental note of that.

Mysterious Moving Black Box

Mysterious black box jumping all over my pages. I can't scroll or type.

Thanks. Your below solution worked.

"Go to system preferences->Universal Access

Make sure that VoiceOver is set to Off"