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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. After disabling Narrator hotkey, you can still open Windows Narrator using other methods descried in this tutorial. To view a list of keyboard shortcuts in Windows apps, see Keyboard shortcuts in apps. Narrator key. You can choose what modifier key you want to use in Narrator commands. Both the Caps lock and Insert keys serve as your Narrator key by default. You can use either of these keys in any command that uses the Narrator key. The Narrator key is referred to as simply “Narrator” in commands.

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!)

Is there a way to disable this shortcut?

LouisDiGMiDiGMi

10 Answers

I have not tried it personally but here's what I found.

1. Navigate to %systemroot%System32
2. In this folder a file called Narrator.exe is to be found
3. Right click the file and choose Properties
4. Choose the Security tab and press Advanced
5. In the top of the window press Change to change the Owner permissions
6. In the text field write your username and press OK to all the dialogs

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.

1. Right click the Narrator file again and choose Properties and Security
2. Press Advanced
3. Now that you are the owner you can change permissions for other users. Choose your own user and press Edit
4. Remove the Read & Execute and Read permissions and press OK
5. Now press Change in the top under Owner and write system in the text field
6. Press OK to all dialogs

If you're familiar with editing the Windows registry, you can use the solution described here:

• Launch regedit.exe and navigate to: HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionImage File Execution Options
• Create a key with the name Narrator.exe
• Inside the key, create a new String value called Debugger, and set its value to %1

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.

Louis

Pressing the Capslock and the Esc keys at the same time brings up a window that allows you to Exit the Narrator.

You could use AutoHotkey to disable the Win + Enter key combination with the following script :

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.

If you wish to disable all Win + ?? key combinations, this registry hack does that:
Disable Win+X Shortcut Keys on Windows 7 or Vista.

harrymcharrymc

There is a way to disable shortcuts which start with Win in a windows registry.

1. Create text file with the following content

2. Change file's extension to 'reg'

3. Run it by double click

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)

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.

Olli

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:

Windows 7 Narrator Shortcut Keys

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.

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.

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.

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

And unchecked the option Turn on Narrator and click Apply button to apply this settings. Now when you press the Win+Enter narrator won't be start.

avirkavirk

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We have already seen a list of some available Ease Of Access keyboard shortcuts in Windows 10. Now let us take a look at some of the keyboard shortcut that Microsoft has given in Windows 10 for Narrator & Magnifier.

Keyboard shortcuts for Narrator

Windows OS includes the Narrator, which is a built-in accessibility feature that can read text on your computer screen aloud. It can also read out and describe various other events which may occur on your PC, including reading out error messages. So if you have vision impairments, you will find this feature useful as it can also allow you to use your PC without a display.

Keyboard shortcut	Action
To do this
To do this
To do this
To do this
To do this
To do this
Lock Narrator key (Caps Lock) so you don’t have to press it for every keyboard shortcut
Caps Lock+X	Have Narrator ignore the next keyboard shortcut you use
Caps Lock+F12	Turn keystroke reading off or on
Caps Lock+V	Repeat phrase
Caps Lock+Page Up or Page Down	Increase or decrease voice volume
Caps Lock+plus (+) or minus (-)	Increase or decrease voice speed
Caps Lock+D	Read item
Caps Lock+F	Read advanced info about item
Caps Lock+S	Read item spelled out
Caps Lock+W	Read window
Caps Lock+R	Read all items in the containing area
Caps Lock+Num Lock	Turn mouse mode on or off
Caps Lock+Q	Move to last item in the containing area
Caps Lock+G	Move Narrator cursor to system cursor
Caps Lock+T	Move Narrator cursor to pointer
Caps Lock+tilde (~)	Set focus to item
Caps Lock+Backspace	Go back one item
Caps Lock+Insert	Jump to linked item
Caps Lock+F10	Read current row header
Caps Lock+F9	Read current column header
Caps Lock+F8	Read current row
Caps Lock+F7	Read current column
Caps Lock+F5	Read current row and column location
Caps Lock+F6	Jump to table cell
Shift+Caps Lock+F6	Jump to cell contents
Caps Lock+F3	Jump to next cell in current row
Shift+Caps Lock+F3	Jump to previous cell in current row
Caps Lock+F4	Jump to next cell in current column
Shift+Caps Lock+F4	Jump to previous cell in current column
Caps Lock+Close square bracket (])	Read text from start to cursor
Caps Lock+zero (0)	Read text attributes
Caps Lock+H	Read document
Ctrl+Caps Lock+U	Read current page
Caps Lock+U	Read next page
Shift+Caps Lock+U	Read previous page
Read current line
Caps Lock+O	Read next line
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Ctrl+Caps Lock+P	Read current word
Caps Lock+P	Read next word
Shift+Caps Lock+P	Read previous word
Ctrl+Caps Lock+Open square bracket ([)	Read current character
Caps Lock+Open square bracket ([)	Read next character
Shift+Caps Lock+Open square bracket ([)	Read previous character
Caps Lock+Y	Move to beginning of text
Caps Lock+B	Move to end of text
Caps Lock+J	Jump to next heading
Shift+Caps Lock+J	Jump to previous heading
Caps Lock+K	Jump to next table
Shift+Caps Lock+K	Jump to previous table
Caps Lock+L	Jump to next link
Shift+Caps Lock+L	Jump to previous link
Caps Lock+C	Read current date and time
Press Caps Lock twice in quick succession	Turn Caps Lock on or off
Caps Lock+E	Give negative feedback
Shift+Caps Lock+E	Give positive feedback
Caps Lock+E tapped twice in quick succession	Open the feedback dialog
Ctrl+Caps Lock+Up arrow	Go to parent
Ctrl+Caps Lock+Right arrow	Go to next sibling
Ctrl+Caps Lock+Left arrow	Go to previous sibling
Ctrl+Caps Lock+Down arrow	Go to first child
Caps Lock+N	Move to main landmark

Narrator with Touch

Turn On Narrator Windows 7 Shortcut

Press this key	To do this
Tap once with two fingers	Stop Narrator from reading
Tap three times with four fingers	Show all Narrator commands (including the ones not in this list)
Double-tap	Activate primary action
Triple-tap	Activate secondary action
Touch or drag a single finger	Read what’s under your fingers
Flick left/right with one finger	Move to next or previous item
Swipe left/right/up/down with two fingers	Scroll
Swipe down with three fingers	Start reading on explorable text

Magnifier keyboard shortcuts

Magnifier makes it easier for people with disabilities, to read and view various parts of their computer screen more clearly, as it makes items appear larger.

Press this key	To do this

Windows 7 Narrator Shortcut Key

Enjoy Windows 10!

Now go take a look at the complete list of Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 10.

Narrator Keyboard Shortcuts Windows 10

Windows Narrator Shortcuts

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