Sounds like screen burn-in... But I don't think I've ever heard of it
happening that fast. Was your screen on for unusually long periods of
time while those files were on the desktop and the Yahoo window was
open?
I'm not quite sure how you'd go about fixing screen burn-in; but since
it's the pixels retaining the electrical currents that make the image,
you might keep a solid color background for a while, and see if that
helps.
It sure sounds like you just have a faulty display; if your Mac is
less then a year old, Apple will probably fix it under the 1-yr
warranty.
To prevent this from happening in the future, set the screen saver to
start after 10-20 minutes, and the display to sleep after a while,
too. This helps prevents screen burn-in. Although, It is weird that it
would be happening to you so quickly, and on a Mac that's not that
old. I had thought they'd improved the displays so that that didn't
happen as often... It was more common with the old CRT screens then
with LCD screens. That's why I think you might have a faulty display.
Hope that helps...
-Elliott Price
Mac Computer Repair - Santa Barbara
Graphic Design - Artwork Setup
Websites - Low Cost Custom Websites
On Oct 1, 2009, at 2:40 PM, M&I Shaw wrote:
> This is weird.
>
> I have had three files on my Desktop at right, below my hard drive
> icon.
>
> One image, one .PDF, and one TextEdit document. Two of them have
> only been there for a few days. The third has been there for a few
> hours.
>
> I moved 2 of them to the left side of the screen and threw the other
> one in the Trash.
>
> BUT I can still see the icons like postage stamps, faintly grey and
> outlined, but definitely still there and clear enough to read the
> titles of the documents that wee there.
>
> Using the Desktop System I turned the screen solid white and they
> went away. Then I turned the Desktop solid green and the ghost icons
> are back. And now there is a ghostly window in the middle of my
> screen that appears to be a faint Yahoo mail window from what I can
> see of it !!
>
> Restart and nothing changes !! Ghost icons still there...
>
> 24-inch 2.8 Intel Extreme.
>
>
>
> >
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