{"id":9565,"date":"2017-06-22T03:40:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T03:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=9565"},"modified":"2017-07-13T02:07:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T02:07:56","slug":"disable-narrator-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/disable-narrator-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Methods to Disable Narrator in Windows 10, 8 and 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to turn off Narrator permanently or disable Narrator shortcut key in Windows? When you accidentally press the Windows + Enter (or Windows + Ctrl + Enter in Windows 10) hotkey, this will open up the built-in Narrator<\/a> app, which puts a blue box to the button or text with keyboard focus.<\/p>\n

\"narrator-blue-box\"<\/p>\n

If you want to quickly exit Narrator, press Caps Lock+Esc. In this tutorial we’ll show you 2 easy methods to turn off \/ disable Narrator completely in Windows 10, 8 and 7.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Disable Narrator Shortcut Key<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows key + R to open the Run box. Type regedit<\/strong> and press Enter.\n

    \"regedit\"\n<\/li>\n

  2. When the Registry Editor opens up, navigate to the following key:
    \nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Narrator\\NoRoam<\/code><\/p>\n

    \"disable-narrator-shortcut\"<\/p>\n

    \tDouble-click the WinEnterLaunchEnabled<\/strong> value in the right pane.<\/li>\n

  3. When the Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/em> dialog box opens, type 0 in the Value data field and click OK<\/strong>.\n

    \"WinEnterLaunchEnabled\"\n<\/li>\n

  4. Now you’ve successfully disabled Narrator shortcut key. Try to press the Windows + Enter or Windows + Ctrl + Enter shortcut, it won’t start Windows Narrator any longer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After disabling Narrator hotkey, you can still open Windows Narrator using other methods descried in this tutorial<\/a>. If you want to turn off Narrator permanently, proceed to the next method.<\/p>\n

    Method 2: Turn Off Narrator Permanently<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the directory C:\\Windows\\System32<\/em>.<\/li>\n
    2. The Narrator.exe<\/strong> file is protected by system, and you need to take ownership<\/a> of it before making any changes. If you don’t know how to change ownership, you can take use of the freeware TakeOwnershipPro<\/a>.\n

      \"take-ownership-narrator\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    3. Right-click on the Narrator.exe file and then select Properties<\/strong> from the context menu.<\/li>\n
    4. When the Properties window opens, choose the Security<\/strong> tab and click the Edit<\/strong> button to change permissions.\n

      \"change-file-permissions\"\n<\/li>\n

    5. Choose your own user from the list, and then deny the Read & Execute<\/strong> and Read<\/strong> permissions and click OK<\/strong>.\n

      \"deny-execute-narrator\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    6. Now you’ve turned off Narrator on your Windows computer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How to turn off Narrator permanently or disable Narrator shortcut key in Windows? When you accidentally press the Windows + Enter (or Windows + Ctrl + Enter in Windows 10) hotkey, this will open up the built-in Narrator app, which puts a blue box to the button or text with keyboard focus. If you want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894,3,39],"tags":[3433,3436,3435,3434],"class_list":["post-9565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-disable-narrator-in-windows-10","tag-disable-narrator-shortcut-key","tag-turn-off-narrator-hotkey","tag-turn-off-narrator-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9565"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9718,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}