Sudden decrease in graphic quaity

Earlier today I was using Safari to download a short video from MSN when my MacBook locked up. As I was trying to to quit Safari, and stop the download, by pressing command, option, period (plus a number of other key presses), my display suddenly changed, for the worse. Poorer quality for sure. Some of the issues I've noticed are: black boarder around Safari window; some letters are red in otherwise black text; the icons in the dock are poor graphic quality; colors on desktop are way off, as are the graphics on the icons on the desktop; in other windows, such as system preferences, many of the options are not in view, such as the red, yellow and green dots in the upper right hand corner. I have checked the resolution and display profiles, and all seems ok. I have looked at colarsync utility but did not know what to do. Is there a way to revert to default settings? Any help would be great.

You might try to reset the PRAM. Some of the graphics controls are stored there.

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Thanks,

Found the issue and its solved now - from this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3235790
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I momentarily disabled Time Machine, and the .mobilebackups folder was then cleared of Local Snapshots, a function of Time Machine which saves incremental changes between actual Time Machine backups.
Apparently Finder sees the accumulated data as "free space", because it will be overwritten if need be. However, Disk Utility sees the usage and subtracts it from its calculations of free space.
Once you turn Time Machine back on, Local Snapshots will resume, and your free space will diminish until you hook up a Time Machine drive and perform a backup, or turn off Time Machine to clear the "cache".
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NewtronStar wrote:
BT state that interleaving can increase latency by an additional 20-40ms. Whilst this will not be noticeable to the vast majority of users, ardent gamers are the ones most likely to complain about additional latency and therefore prefer a slower synch speed than higher latency.
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vince200 wrote:
After trying to partition the disk, Disk Utility displayed "Shrinking Hard Drive". The application then became unresponsive and I had to force quit.
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Fix for MacBook sudden decrease in speed/freezing?

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Big up for Ardalaan.

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