I've install Windows 8 on a BootCamp macbook airThe problem is that the command key located differently from the winkey in a normal keyboard, therefor, I keep clicking Winkey+Enter which starts the narrator (which is really annoying!)
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Disable Voice Narrator Windows 10 Start Menu
How to Turn Off the Microsoft Narrator Start Up. This wikiHow teaches you how to turn off and then disable the built-in screen reader on a Windows computer. Use the shortcut key combination.
Is there a way to disable this shortcut?
Louis
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I have not tried it personally but here's what I found.
Now you should be able to change the permissions of the file, this is where we remove all the permissions from your user and the user back to system, this way your user will not be able to start the Narrator.
NaNNyNaNNy
If you're familiar with editing the Windows registry, you can use the solution described here:
This won't be changed by Windows updates, and can be easily reverted by just deleting the key.
If you don't use any Windows Assistive Technology features, you may also want to create a registry key for AtBroker.exe with an identifical string to prevent it to be launched as a rogue process in the background every time you accidently use the Narrator shortcut.
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IcydogIcydog
Pressing the Capslock and the Esc keys at the same time brings up a window that allows you to Exit the Narrator.
Don MillarDon Millar
You could use AutoHotkey to disable the Win + Enter key combination with the following script : Ica file citrix windows 10 64.
With AutoHotkey you could also map this key combination to any other key combination or action.
If you wish to disable the Win key itself, see this registry hack :
How to disable the keyboard Windows key. Toshiba external hard drive drivers.
If you wish to disable all Win + ?? key combinations, this registry hack does that: harrymcharrymc
Disable Win+X Shortcut Keys on Windows 7 or Vista.
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There is a way to disable shortcuts which start with Win in a windows registry.
As you can see, it creates a registry field 'DisabledHotKeys', with a value of a key we want to disable. In our case it's a 0D in hex or 13 in dec or 'carriage return' symbol. Win key shouldn't be specified here because it's implied.
For example, if you want to disable Win + R, Win + D and Win + Home then the value of 'DisabledHotKeys' should be 'RD$'. ('$' symbol has an ascii-code equals to a keycode of Home button)
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I did the following in my Windows 8 PC to enable and disable narrator,
To enable,
To disable,
It will bring the narrator screen. Click exit on it.
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Diganta KumarDiganta Kumar
This is one post that comes up when users search for how to disable Narrator in Windows 10.
This was annoying me today. The provided solutions weren't satisfactory for me. Especially setting the debuger setting. I did a 30 second search for
Narrator in the registry and very luckily found this key:
Setting it to 0 disables the shortcut for the current user, so not in the login screen.
Save this as a .reg file:
This key doesn't seem to be present in Windows 8.1, so looks like it's only a Windows 10 addition.
Hope this helps someone though.
MardoxxMardoxx
This probably only works in Windows 10, but the shortcut is really easy to disable now.
Open Narrator (Go to
Control Panel >Ease of Access Center >Start Narrator , or use the annoying shortcut), select the Narrator window (it runs in the background), go to General settings and disable shortcut key, click save, and click exit narrator.
Adam SilenkoAdam Silenko
I installed a simple little script program that allows you to snap windows to the edges of screens or to other monitors. By default, I think - I've had this program running for a long while on windows, it takes over the same shortcut key. I installed it on my win8 machine and it seems to have done the trick and taken over the same shortcut used by narrator. I realize win8 has good support for snapping windows around, but I like this shortcut to do it because that's what I'm used to and it has the nice side effect of preventing narrator from starting. You can also do more advanced window placement, but I find I just throw things back and forth to other monitors.
In any case, it's worth a try. I just set windowpad to run on startup so it's always active.
TheImirOfGroofunkistanTheImirOfGroofunkistan
I don't know if it works on Windows 8 or not but it works on Windows Vista/7 very well. Press the Win+U key which will open the Ease of access center or you can open it through Control Panel as well.
Now click on the option
Use the computer without a display and another window will popup
Download Voices For Windows Narrator
And unchecked the option avirkavirk
Turn on Narrator and click Apply button to apply this settings. Now when you press the Win+Enter narrator won't be start.
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