Clear Box with White Outline?

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Clear Box with White Outline?

On my MacBook Pro, a clear/transparent box will occasionaly appear on top of all of my other applications and prevents me from doing anything. I've never seen this before and I can't seem to get rid of it without restarting my computer. Is this something in Universal Access or some other program that someone is familiar with. I have zoom and voice over both off and it still happens. Could it be something from the new trackpad? I can move the box around but it prevents me from using anything that it is behind. How do it get this off and prevent it from happening. Oh, and it has a white box around it.

Message was edited by: okboy3lb

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 3, 2010 1:24 PM

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Answer 1

goatfoot

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Dec 18, 2010 8:55 PM in response to okboy3lb

Similar problem with cursor. selection box appears when cursor moves on desktop and selection box when moving cursor in browser window. all text and graphics get selected in browser window. closing and restarting does not fix this. updated to 10.6.5 when it was available. Also typing is with a highlight box on letters and getting automatic delete of text when typing next letter. only way to move typing cursor is with arrow keys. moving mouse selects text and moves the text. HELP

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Dec 19, 2010 1:43 AM in response to goatfoot

I suspect that the problem is that the Drag Lock is stuck on.

Try freeing it by double-clicking a few times on mouse or trackpad. If that fails, try clearing the checkbox in the Mouse or Trackpad pane of System Preferences.

If that doesn't work, then try trashing the file
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist and/or ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist

Then log out and back in again, or restart.

Good luck,

Archie

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