How to disable Narrator
Using Server 2008, I have tried Narrator once to see what it can do. Now I cannot disable the stupid, stupid thing. I have tried everything short from editing the registry. I have even tried to rename the narrator.exe, but you won't believe it: even as the administrator I cannot do that...only a trusted installer can. I dislike Narrator. Thank you for helping me to get rid of this little nuisance.
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Do this: Go to Control Panel -> Ease of Access -> Ease of Access Center -> Explore all Settings -> Use the computer without a display. Uncheck the checkbox by Turn on Narrator and click Save.
Don't forget to tell me if it worked.
- Proposed As Answer byMethras Friday, June 20, 2008 7:39 AM
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Do this: Go to Control Panel -> Ease of Access -> Ease of Access Center -> Explore all Settings -> Use the computer without a display. Uncheck the checkbox by Turn on Narrator and click Save.
Don't forget to tell me if it worked.
- Proposed As Answer byMethras Friday, June 20, 2008 7:39 AM
Thanx you saved the day, they should have a seperate control for a startup item such as narrator where is can be found.
hey man thx ive spent hours looking all over the damn windows web site the stupid thing should have it in start-up thx again it was starting to give me a headache
No Problem, any time.
PS: Could Vlermuisman Please answer this thread.
- Thanks, this was really helpful!
omfg thank you so much! i just got my new dell laptop and its got vista home premium on it and dude....this stuff is amazing but the narrator thing i found by accident so i tried it and it wouldnt go away when i wanted it to. i was like...wtf! it made me mad. you helped alot! took me a while to find the "explore all settings" thing but i found it ^_^ your great! thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
seraphine >=D
- You're a gentleman and a scholar!!! Thank you very much! How annoying was that? I called HP customer service and much to my suprise they could not figure it out after being on the phone for an hour. It should be made easier to disable this feature which I am sure is wonderful for those who need it. Thanks again!
Glad I could help, Thanks for the encouragement guys. I really appreciate it.
- Thanks a lot! Very useful for me too!
I am running Window XP Home edition. The Narrator, Utility manager routinely hijacks and opens various windows.
I don't know how it activated but it's been going on for longer than I want. I tried looking in the start up folder and nothing seems to be there.
In XP how do I turn it off.
Please help. I don't want to have to reformat the hard drive to get rid of it.
Haunted.
How do you do this is XP?
Haunted
I think you've got a virus!
Narrator does not open windows, it simply reads them, the virus is one that is opening the windows.
In XP, narrator is not automatically started; something has got to invoke it first, it could be an application, In you’re case a virus, or manually typing “narrator” at the run.
I've run Norton and AVG anti virus with nothing found.
Is my only option at this point to reinstall the operating system? I was hoping to not have to go to this extreme measure.
Your the expert, so please advise.
Haunted
Then, it’s most probably is a script that is running in the background as a windows service, use task manager and check to see if there are any suspicious programs.
You should also check your registry, go to this subkey - FRIST MAKE A BACKUP OF THIS SUBKEY “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run”, when you find it, look for suspicious entries that lunch at startup and delete them, everything in this subkey runs at startup.
CAUTION: Be Very Careful with regards to the Registry – a single mistake could render your system useless.
Mervyn,
Just wanted to give you an update on my particular issue.
Well last Friday I took the plunge and reformated the hard drive and reinstalled the operating system.
Believe it or not, the narrator dialog box, and the others appeared once again. It is not as excessive or persistent, but nonetheless reformating did not "kill it off".
The morning after reformating the hard drive, HP support sent me an email that it may be a defective hardware issue with the keyboard and needs to be replaced.
Have not ordered that part yet, but looks as if that may be the next step.
Joan aka Haunted.
Thanks for the update, keep me postedThank you so much I did not have time to sit and find this myself and I do not know if I could have even found it if I had time. I just wanted to let you know how helpful your information was and to tell you thank you.
Thanks and have a very blessed day,
Angelmonkey
I did this and when I got to >Use the computer without a display. there was no mention of the narrator? Now what? Why doesn't my computer have the same as the others. just really slowing down the boot up process and is getting on my nerve, simply I'm down the last one.
- Thank you so much.... have spent hours trying to get rid of this.
Thank you so much. I tripped across your info when doing a search. This feature was driving me crazy at start up and I had tried every resource I knew to try finding out how to disable. THANK YOU!
Mervyn,
Thanks alot for the info - it worked great. It was really beginning to be annoying!
Mike
Thankyou MErvyn King ...You have saved me stress and years off my life by telling me how to remove this narrator!
Microsoft should be paying you !
Mervyn King wrote: Do this: Go to Control Panel -> Ease of Access -> Ease of Access Center -> Explore all Settings -> Use the computer without a display. Uncheck the checkbox by Turn on Narrator and click Save.
Don't forget to tell me if it worked.
"hurrah! thanks ....so difficult and yet soo simple. d
- Microsoft should have made this so easy to disable. But no.... it sucks.
thnq u dost ,,thnx a lot ,in future i hope u will b help me .....- Thank You!!
- This is great. I was having the same problem with the On-Screen Keyboard opening every time I (Administrator) logged on. OSK is not as irritating as narrator, but it was still generally annoying because it would open about 3 minutes after log on. It took me a few days to find the setting, then a 1/2 hour later, I found this post! Very nice!
- Mervyn! i love you!!! mwah! mwah! i think it was my son who hacked into my screen and tried narrator, and it has been giving me high blood pressure, palpitations and WRINKLES for months! now i can get on with my merry non-narrated life. thank you!!
- You ROCK!!! TY, TY, TY!!!
- WOW! That was terrific! I clicked on Narrator to see what it was all about, and then couldn't get rid of it! Your solution was great. I was pulling my hair out trying to turn it off but couldn't find a way to do so. Thanks!
- Mervyn King, you are the bee's knees. Thank you so much for helping me get rid of that nasty Narrator!
Thank you for this information on how to stop Narrator. I did the same as other folks and was really wanting to take narrator for a test drive only. Once it was on I could not figure out how to stop it. God bless you and all folks like yourself who help us in need. I am running Vista and it was a little bit different but with these great instructions I was able to figure it out.
- Hi, I am here to help and I did find the solution for you. Here is what you have to do. First go to the control Panel, then go to Ease Of Access Center, then Make it easier to focus on tasks.
In this Area, under where it says "Reading" there is a check box right next to the "Turn on Narrator". Just uncheck it. Than you will alright, but make sure you click on save setting options. otherwise it won't do it. ok please let me know if this would help. Thank you. if you have any other questions please email me at mliang3@gmail.com - I'm usingXP Pro 2002 w/ SP 3 on a virtual machine on my iMac, and I've never had a problem with Narrator until this morning when it started up while I was typing an email (I have no idea how it started, what prompted it).
I don't have the option for "Ease of Access" under Control Panel, and when I searched my computer for "narrator" all it came up with was narrator.lnk
It seems to be turning on arbitrarily.
HELP?
Thank you!
KasiaJoon
- Thank you so much M King! I been trying to get that turned off in everyway. I was starting to think it was there forever, Ha! My son turned it on his laptop, I tried for a long time to get rid of it. Finalely, I typed it in at ask.com about it and here this was right away. After all that time and headaches and it was so simple to fix.
- You're the King. Your advise worked for disabling the narrator. Thanks
- You are the king I thank you so much for your help in getting rid of the nasty jacked up narrator.
- Thank you! I am a very stable person, but I was ready to smash my computer to a million pieces with that stupid narrator on. You are awesome.
- Thanyou so much I was going insane trying to turn this feature off, I agree that Microsoft should have it set up in their help as I tried many different key words in help but with no success. Many thanks again.
OMG!! Im Not The Only One!! I Dont Feel Like Such A Dummy!! Thaaaaaank You Soooo Much!! My Child Did Something To My Laptop And Ever Since That Stooooopid Narrator Thing Came On And I Tried Everything....Even Deleting It And It Never Went Away! So I Googled It & Found This...Thank You Sooooo Much! :))Do this: Go to Control Panel -> Ease of Access -> Ease of Access Center -> Explore all Settings -> Use the computer without a display. Uncheck the checkbox by Turn on Narrator and click Save.
Don't forget to tell me if it worked.
HI
I have system mechanic professional and by that i checked my start up but it wasnt there.,...
yesterday I got some update4 xp .it works proper before.after restart narrator is always running.i desabled it but it works, delet narrator.exe but it still works, i really dont know what i must do
is it a virus?
what is this?
what i must do?
I mean in startup there is no narrator.exe Bcuz idelete it
I know all this way....give me another ....i deleted narrator.exe from system32 folder...
but it still worrrrrrrrrrrrrrk....in utility manager there is no narrator since i deleted it
plzguide me
Thanks , Its working fine. I have searched solution to disable above feature for long days......Now I got it....Fine
- Many thanks Mervyn ! My sanity has been restored. Never thought that I could ever rid myself of this.
Best regards,
Beemerboy. - Why did I leave it sooooooooooooo long before I looked for this, it removed it straight away.
No more listing too disjointed speech,
No more fruitless attempts at removing it,
I,m free I say free,
10 out of 10 - These are great if you are using VISTA.
I am in the control panel of XP. There is no Ease of Access there. What now? - Did you ever figure this out?
I've got a user that turned it on. We are on XP also.
Thanks,
I had the same problem and followed the instructions from Mervyn.Using Server 2008, I have tried Narrator once to see what it can do. Now I cannot disable the stupid, stupid thing. I have tried everything short from editing the registry. I have even tried to rename the narrator.exe, but you won't believe it: even as the administrator I cannot do that...only a trusted installer can. I dislike Narrator. Thank you for helping me to get rid of this little nuisance.
Thank you very much fellow!- your genius plan worked thanks now i dont have to listen to anna anymore and to any one who wants to try narrator just dont
- Dear Mervyn,
Long story but wondering if I have a virus after running restore to factory settings on my computer and installing full Windows updates. My computer is HP Pavilion, Vista Home Premium, bought April 2009. Narrator and Onscreen Keyboard JUST APPEARED out of nowhere after after the factory restore. I had not yet installed any other software and I had not gone onto the internet yet, but I was connected.
If not for finding your post, I would have gone crazy (been 3 days with it). I still have unusual behavior including system hangs. Wonder if I shouldn't just restore to factory again, but not install all the Windows updates!
What do you recommend? I appreciate your help! - THANKS MERVYN, WHAT A RELEIF MATE!
