Windows 10 How To Turn Off Narrator

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Oct 29, 2018 - Windows 10 contains several accessibility settings built in to make it easier. Narrator surprise you, you can come here to disable that shortcut. Here's how to access the Narrator settings and turn the feature off. Open the Settings app on your Windows 10 PC and click on the option that says Ease of Access. When the Ease of Access panel opens, find and click on Narrator in the left panel. Then, in the right panel, turn the toggle for Narrator to the OFF position.

As a software developer I want to test my app under a variety of settings, so I played around with the Ease of Access settings on my Surface RT. Now I have the Narrator on and I cannot figure out how to turn it off again. It's making me crazy, because anything you tap on it just tells you what the control is, you have to double-tap to actually click it.

Please make my Surface usable for me again!

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Windows 10 How To Turn Off Narrator Computer

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If you want to quickly exit Narrator, press Caps Lock+Esc.

Turn Off Narrator Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcut

Source: Windows 8 Narrator page

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Caps Lock + Esc didn't work for me, but Windows Logo + Enter did:

Exiting Narrator

There are also different ways to exit Narrator. These are the two shortcuts many people prefer:

Windows 10 How To Turn Off Narrator

On a keyboard, press the Windows logo key Windows logo key +Enter. On a tablet, press the Windows logo button Windows logo key and Volume Up button together.

usmancusmanc

Ctrl + Alt + Delete, click Task Manager, Scroll down to background tasks, click Screen Reader, click End Task. This is the only thing that worked on my computer so I am posting this.

JEFFJEFF

As of Windows 10, you need to include the Ctrl key, which means that Windows + Enter is not enough: it needs to be Windiws + Ctrl + Enter.

Without the Ctrl key, you can also use Narrator + Esc, which depends on the configured Narrator key (Both the Caps lock and Insert keys serve as your Narrator key by default). Psp games cso highly compressed.

Windows 10 how do i turn off narrator

See Appendix B: Narrator keyboard commands and touch gestures - Windows Help for a full table with commands and explanation about the Narrator key.

Note that

  • [WayBack] currently pages at support.microsoft.com cannot be saved in the WayBack machine, so I have not included an archived link.
  • Caps Lock + Esc does not work on an RDP connection originating from a Mac
Jeroen Wiert PluimersJeroen Wiert Pluimers
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A tip from the Microsoft Accessibility on my phone page:

Turn on Narrator quick launch and you'll be able to turn Narrator on or off with a quick button combo—press and hold the Volume Up button button, and then press the Start button button.

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user393119user393119

Just could not make it die with the previous suggestions, so I did the following.

  1. Windows-key + Q
  2. Search for and run 'narrator'
  3. Open Task Manager (righ-click taskbar -> 'Task Manager')
  4. Go to details tab, find 'Narrator.exe'
  5. Right-click -> 'End task'
Josh DownesJosh Downes

IN Windows 8.1, go to the Settings, Ease of Use, Turn the Narrator off.

I'm not sure what turns it on, but this is the way to turn it off.

The sad part is that you have to know that it's called 'Narrator' before you can figure out how to find setting adjustments for it.

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