MacBook - My mac is messed up?

pyromaniacv3 · pyromaniacv3 #1 (**permalink**)

06-03-2009, 04:40 PM

Ok...so I'm not too bad with mac's. But I'm not the best.
I was on my mac earlier, and suddenly I started getting this random black box around everything. Also my apple start button thing, has double shut down's and restart's....
Anyone know wtf this is all about?
Here are a few small shots of what I mean:

Here's the menu:

And here are two things with the black box:

Edit:
Also, in my activiy monitor, there's an activity called "screenreaderd" that keeps saying it's unresponsive...And it only does it on my account.

pyromaniacv3 · pyromaniacv3 #2 (**permalink**)

06-03-2009, 04:51 PM

I seem to have found out what it was.

I google screenreaderd and found out it was something the the speech settings in the system prefs. I changed it, and all of the box things went away.

Anyone know why it was doing it? O_o

vansmith · vansmith #3 (**permalink**)

06-03-2009, 05:11 PM

You probably hit command-F5 which turns voiceover on/off.

pyromaniacv3 · pyromaniacv3 #4 (**permalink**)

06-03-2009, 08:11 PM

I think I did, lol.

Why does it act up like that, though? Do you know?

pyromaniacv3 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: May 04, 2009 Posts: 5	06-03-2009, 04:40 PM Ok...so I'm not too bad with mac's. But I'm not the best. I was on my mac earlier, and suddenly I started getting this random black box around everything. Also my apple start button thing, has double shut down's and restart's.... Anyone know wtf this is all about? Here are a few small shots of what I mean: Here's the menu: And here are two things with the black box: Edit: Also, in my activiy monitor, there's an activity called "screenreaderd" that keeps saying it's unresponsive...And it only does it on my account. Last edited by pyromaniacv3; 06-03-2009 at 04:47 PM.
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pyromaniacv3 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: May 04, 2009 Posts: 5	06-03-2009, 04:51 PM I seem to have found out what it was. I google screenreaderd and found out it was something the the speech settings in the system prefs. I changed it, and all of the box things went away. Anyone know why it was doing it? O_o
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Member Since: May 04, 2009 Posts: 5	06-03-2009, 08:11 PM I think I did, lol. Why does it act up like that, though? Do you know?
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