Re: How to turn off NVDA
Food Posse <allaboutfoodandfun@...>
Thanks for the good ideas. I took a break
over the holidays and then just picked it up again to try to
figure it out.
To answer a previous question, she needs to be able to turn
NVDA on and off whenever she wants. She is extremely proficient
with keyboard shortcuts and only needs screen readers for things
like reading emails, webpages, and documents where the content
is unknown and without sound. Having a screen reader while she
is working on music and sound editing work is counterproductive.
While experimenting, I learned that the Task Manager did not
really end the task. It merely closed the welcome and quit
dialogs. NVDA does not show up in the active or background
processes when it is running or when it auto-launches. This at
least explains why ending the task in Task Manager is not a
permanent "quit". But it does not explain why NVDA continues to
run after quit command and not displayed as a process.
When manually choosing OK button to close the welcome dialog,
another dialog opens asking about sending data to NVDA. When I
selected "Remind Me Later" option, that NVDA "reminder" appears
in the background processes of the Task Manager. When I ended
that reminder running in the background in task manager, NVDA
does turn off and does not auto-launches. But NVDA does not
appear as a background app if I did not select that reminder
option but still continues to run and auto-launches.
Cleaning off the laptop, again, and reloading NVDA did not
solve the problem. For some reason, NVDA is running in the
background without being listed and cannot be completely turned
off by the user which should not happen for any program. NVDA
was running even when there are no apps listed as active in Task
Manager.
As a work-around, she is set up now with two profiles, one
with NVDA and one without. Having a portable version is a good
idea but switching profiles was easier for her. I suspect that
she will likely shift to Narrator sooner than later.
If anyone else knows why NVDA does not appear as a process,
active apps or background, and why it keeps running after
selecting Quit, please share but I have no further clue on my
own.
From: Gene
[mailto:gsasner@...]
Date: Friday,
January 1, 2021, 10:20 AM
Subject: [nvda]
How to turn off NVDA
I realized today that one possible work around for the problem hasn't been discussed. Don't have an installed version of NVDA on the machine. Completely remove it. Then when running the installer file, use the create portable version and create one wherever you want on the c drive, I assume that is where you keep programs and data.
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