1. How To Turn Off Narrator Mode On Windows 10
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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!

How To Turn Off Narrator Mode On Windows 10

If you’ve accidentally enabled the Narrator feature in Microsoft Windows 10 and hear a narrator voice when you type, start your computer, or mouse over an item. You can turn it off with a simple setting. Here’s how it’s done. Quick Method 1. Hold the Windows Key and press “Enter“.

1. How to turn off or on the screen reader in Windows 10? Open the Settings Charm with the shortcut Windows Key + I; 2. Click/tap Change PC settings. Click/tap on the Easy of Access. Under 'Narrator' move the slider to the right to turn it On or to the left to turn it Off. When finished, you can close PC settings if you like.
2. How to Disable Narrator Shortcut Key via Registry Editor Step 1: Open Registry Editor. Step 2: When the Registry Editor opens, head to the following key: Step 3: When the Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value dialog box opens, change its Value data as 0, then click OK.

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

Source: Windows 8 Narrator page

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:

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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'

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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