I cannot open the Macintosh HD

I cannot open my macintosh HD. I click on the desktop icon & nothing happens, i double tap (on trackpad) & then click on 'Get Info' & again nothing happens. I have no problems clicking on my external hard drive icon & opening that. But i cannot access the Mac HD by clicking on the desktop icon. I am trying to do this in the administrator account. I have tried in in another account & i can access the HD by clicking on the icon with no problems
This seems to have only started happening after i downloaded the java update.
After running disc utility it states:
Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
ACL differs on “Users/Shared”
Can anybody help.

I tried deleting the plist files, unfortunately that did not resolve the issue. I did create a new user account and the same thing happens. Now on the iMac we have the user accounts and you can double click on the HD icon to open it without having to do so using Finder. Maybe this is the way it works, if anyone out there has a Macbook using multiple user accounts I would love to hear about it.
thanks

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