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My cursor is being followed by vertical lines

My cursor has a little box behind it (ie to the right and below) made of up 4 columns and 8 rows of tiny vertical line. These lines then migrate to the dock and the menu bar.
I Have:
repaired disk permissions
reinstalled tiger
then repaired disk permissions again

God I hope this is not a hardware problem, but something with the software or a virus.
Thanks in advance

17" iMac 1.8 Power PC G5 running 10.4.11

iMac 15, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jul 20, 2010 5:56 PM

18 replies

BDAqua

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239,225 points

Jul 21, 2010 7:48 PM in response to viad

Yes, thank you.

Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596

After installing, Reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...

applejack AUTO

Then let it do all 5 of it's things.

The 5 things it does are...

Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.

At least if it doesn't fix it, it'll eliminate a few questions. 🙂

Jul 24, 2010 4:35 PM in response to BDAqua

You're right, darn it. We broke down and bought another computer today - La another $1,000!
BDAuqa you've been great THanks for all the hard work,
Robby

BDAqua

Level 10

239,225 points

Jul 24, 2010 4:45 PM in response to Robby Schwarzbach

Darn it is right, but sometimes you hate to be right!

Good luck with the new Computer, what did you get?

My cursor is being followed by vertical lines