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My Desktop is Moving - Literally

Hi -
My 4 year old played a game on my Mac and when I went to do some work, the entire desktop is moving around - literally!! It's larger than normal and is bouncing all around whenever I move my cursor. Any ideas how to restore it back to normal? I've restarted - that didn't work. I've shut down, unplugged and restarted and that didn't work...I'm getting very frustrated....Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

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Hello, this is an option that is enabled in the system preferences panel: Go to the apple menu, click system preferences, go to "Universal access", and in the "Zoom " section, click the "No" button. Then it will go back to normal

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