My screen is messed up. All the colors are wrong. Blue is yellow, red is teal, and so on. No clue what happened or how to fix it. All my apps are this way and the wallpaper picture is totally messed up.

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My screen is messed up. All the colors are wrong. Blue is yellow, red is teal, and so on. No clue what happened or how to fix it. All my apps are this way and the wallpaper picture is totally messed up.

My grandson was playing around with my mouse and changed the display on everything. Things that are usually blue are now gold, red is now teal, etc. I can't figure out what he did or how to correct it. I went to system preferneces but nothing is seeming to work. Any clue what to do?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 17, 2012 7:44 AM

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Answer 1

JoeyR

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May 17, 2012 10:08 AM in response to grandpa C

See if this helps...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3488

Basically... try the following...

Press the Control-Option-Command-8 key combination. This is actually a feature of Universal Access that you can toggle.

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Answer 2

May 17, 2012 11:50 AM in response to grandpa C

This can be turned off directly in Universal Access.

Go to System Preferences > Universal Access > Seeing

Change "White on Black" to "Black on White". To prevent accidental activation of that feature, at that same location you can disable the keyboard command for toggling it on and off.

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Answer 3

Zeekman

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Nov 4, 2013 1:48 AM in response to JoeyR

It worked for me too. Thank you very much.

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