Whenever I click my desktop, the "Macintosh HD" icon will have this black border surrounding the icon of the hard drive and text below it. This just started. I rebooted (again, coming from Windows this is usually a solution) but it's still there. Any ways to stop the border. This is different from having the icon selected, in fact, it can be highlighted (selected) and still have this border.
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Strange Borders on Desktop Icons...
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Sounds like a label has been set. Just right-click (ctrl-click) on the icon, select label->none.
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The label is already set to "X" or off...
It's not a change in color, it's a square border surrounding the entire icon with the text below it. If I click on another icon on the desktop it'll move that border there. I also saw a large rectangle of the same border in the middle of my screen. It was shaped like the outline of the alert box that shows up if you are exiting Firefox and tabs are still open...
I'd suggest first reparing permissions. The only thing that this might be is some sort of Accibility Option that allows for either mouse keys or keyboard navigation.
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Command + F5, should get rid of it
or activate it...........
wow! that worked. what feature is that?
i think it's called 'mess with your mind black box',
It activates voiceover, your Mac tells you what your doing
yeah i just tryin activating it, thats freakin sweet, my mac starting reading out loud everything I had on my desktop. VERY neat. Plus with leopard's new Alex synthesized voice whihc almost sounds realistic it sounded freakin sweet. I meet use that more often.