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Old March 3rd, 2005, 09:19 AM
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Professional Designer - so I work on my mac all day everyday. Yesterday, I started to see the not-so-small white ghosted icons appearing on my desktop everytime I press the apple, option, shift or control buttons. I checked all the settings and cannot for the life of me figure out how it get get rid of them. It is driving me batty! Can anyone help? See pic.
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Definitely strange I'll give you that . I can't say that I've seen this before. What version of Mac OS are you using? Also have you installed any new packages lately?

On Mac OS X, if this is a preference issue then you should be able to get rid of it by deleting the appropriate .plist files from your ~/Library/Preferences folder. If you have to do this then I would suggest OnyX:

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Repair your permissions. Applications Folder > Utilties > DiskRepair(or something similiar, I always forget the name).

Then, even though you don't have to, reboot.

This worked for me when something similiar was happening.
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Repair your permissions. Applications Folder > Utilties > DiskRepair(or something similiar, I always forget the name).

Then, even though you don't have to, reboot.

This worked for me when something similiar was happening.


Applications > Utilities > Disk Utilities. Good idea .
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Hey guys, thanks for the help. Did a few things and they went away - but now the number pad works on and off - so I will run Norton and hopefully that will take care of everything. I am running OSX. Thanks again!
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