Disabling Narrator and Defender

Hi,

I have a friend running Windows Vista Business who'd like to stop
having Narrator come up every time he boots up. When he somehow tried
to suppress Narrator, Defender popped up asking whether he'd like to
enable it.

My friend would like to disable the Narrator automatic start-up.
Likewise, he'd like to disable the Defender pop-up.
I'd like to help him over the phone.

I'm running WinXP/SP2, so I can't help him without some guidance from
more knowledgeable people.

http://maximillianx.blogspot.com/200...fender-in.html
offers Defender advice that looks good to me. Anybody got any
comments about it?

http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=738579 recommends msconfig
and un-checking Narrator.
Sounds good to me. Any comments.

Thanks in Advance,
Richard

Have you had your friend look at what is in his Start Up sequence. Has he already tried to remove it from there .

--
Peter

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"RichardOnRails" <> wrote in message news:6ae7d6bb-4d3a-4449-a9f2-...
> Hi,
>
> I have a friend running Windows Vista Business who'd like to stop
> having Narrator come up every time he boots up. When he somehow tried
> to suppress Narrator, Defender popped up asking whether he'd like to
> enable it.
>
> My friend would like to disable the Narrator automatic start-up.
> Likewise, he'd like to disable the Defender pop-up.
> I'd like to help him over the phone.
>
> I'm running WinXP/SP2, so I can't help him without some guidance from
> more knowledgeable people.
>
> http://maximillianx.blogspot.com/200...fender-in.html
> offers Defender advice that looks good to me. Anybody got any
> comments about it?
>
> http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=738579 recommends msconfig
> and un-checking Narrator.
> Sounds good to me. Any comments.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Richard

On Dec 6, 4:21 am, "Peter Foldes" <ok...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Have you had your friend look at what is in his Start Up sequence. Has he already tried to remove it from there .
>
> --
> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "RichardOnRails" <RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote in messagenews:6ae7d6bb-4d3a-4449-a9f2-...
> > Hi,
>
> > I have a friend running Windows Vista Business who'd like to stop
> > having Narrator come up every time he boots up. When he somehow tried
> > to suppress Narrator, Defender popped up asking whether he'd like to
> > enable it.
>
> > My friend would like to disable the Narrator automatic start-up.
> > Likewise, he'd like to disable the Defender pop-up.
> > I'd like to help him over the phone.
>
> > I'm running WinXP/SP2, so I can't help him without some guidance from
> > more knowledgeable people.
>
> >http://maximillianx.blogspot.com/200...-windows-defen...
> > offers Defender advice that looks good to me. Anybody got any
> > comments about it?
>
> >http://forums.techarena.in/showthrea...8579recommends msconfig
> > and un-checking Narrator.
> > Sounds good to me. Any comments.
>
> > Thanks in Advance,
> > Richard

Hi Peter,

> Have you had your friend look at what is in his Start Up sequence.
> Has he already tried to remove it from there

He received my email referring him to my post here and any responses
it might evoke. I probably won't talk to him until the weekend.

I just wonder if the links in included in my original post offered
sound advice for Vista.

Regards,
Richard

On Dec 6, 3:06 am, RichardOnRails
<RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a friend running Windows Vista Business who'd like to stop
> having Narrator come up every time he boots up. When he somehow tried
> to suppress Narrator, Defender popped up asking whether he'd like to
> enable it.
>
> My friend would like to disable the Narrator automatic start-up.
> Likewise, he'd like to disable the Defender pop-up.
> I'd like to help him over the phone.
>
> I'm running WinXP/SP2, so I can't help him without some guidance from
> more knowledgeable people.
>
> http://maximillianx.blogspot.com/200...-windows-defen...
> offers Defender advice that looks good to me. Anybody got any
> comments about it?
>
> http://forums.techarena.in/showthrea...8579recommends msconfig
> and un-checking Narrator.
> Sounds good to me. Any comments.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Richard

Mission accomplished! My friend followed the advice offered by one of
the sites to which I referred him. He got rid of Narrator and no was
no longer concerned about Defender.
--
Richard

Richard

if your friend is confident in working on the registry this may work

GoTO

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Accessibility

Set to Data to 0

if not, I am sure someone can come up with a solution using MSCONFIG.

Bob


"RichardOnRails" <> wrote in
message
news:c3729c31-8d72-425f-8b7e-...
> On Dec 6, 3:06 am, RichardOnRails
> <RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a friend running Windows Vista Business who'd like to stop
>> having Narrator come up every time he boots up. When he somehow tried
>> to suppress Narrator, Defender popped up asking whether he'd like to
>> enable it.
>>
>> My friend would like to disable the Narrator automatic start-up.
>> Likewise, he'd like to disable the Defender pop-up.
>> I'd like to help him over the phone.
>>
>> I'm running WinXP/SP2, so I can't help him without some guidance from
>> more knowledgeable people.
>>
>> http://maximillianx.blogspot.com/200...-windows-defen...
>> offers Defender advice that looks good to me. Anybody got any
>> comments about it?
>>
>> http://forums.techarena.in/showthrea...8579recommends msconfig
>> and un-checking Narrator.
>> Sounds good to me. Any comments.
>>
>> Thanks in Advance,
>> Richard
>
> Mission accomplished! My friend followed the advice offered by one of
> the sites to which I referred him. He got rid of Narrator and no was
> no longer concerned about Defender.
> --
> Richard

On Dec 11, 9:42 am, "Bob" <bob.cudm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard
>
> if your friend is confident in working on the registry this may work
>
> GoTO
>
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Accessibility
>
> Set to Data to 0
>
> if not, I am sure someone can come up with a solution using MSCONFIG.
>
> Bob
>
> "RichardOnRails" <RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote in
> messagenews:c3729c31-8d72-425f-8b7e-...
>
> > On Dec 6, 3:06 am, RichardOnRails
> > <RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> I have a friend running Windows Vista Business who'd like to stop
> >> having Narrator come up every time he boots up. When he somehow tried
> >> to suppress Narrator, Defender popped up asking whether he'd like to
> >> enable it.
>
> >> My friend would like to disable the Narrator automatic start-up.
> >> Likewise, he'd like to disable the Defender pop-up.
> >> I'd like to help him over the phone.
>
> >> I'm running WinXP/SP2, so I can't help him without some guidance from
> >> more knowledgeable people.
>
> >>http://maximillianx.blogspot.com/200...-windows-defen...
> >> offers Defender advice that looks good to me. Anybody got any
> >> comments about it?
>
> >>http://forums.techarena.in/showthrea...mmendsmsconfig
> >> and un-checking Narrator.
> >> Sounds good to me. Any comments.
>
> >> Thanks in Advance,
> >> Richard
>
> > Mission accomplished! My friend followed the advice offered by one of
> > the sites to which I referred him. He got rid of Narrator and no was
> > no longer concerned about Defender.
> > --
> > Richard

Hi Bob,

Thanks. I'll pass it along and help him with it.

Best wishes,
Richard