She wasn't able to find the system tray.

I think the first thing to try is to restart the computer, see if that fixes the issue

She can try the system tray. If she can find the NVDA icon there, she can open the menu by pressing the context menu key when she is on the icon or using shift f10 command. Gene

Hi, everyone, I had my friend go into narrator to see if she had NVDA in her downloads folder. She has NVDA 2019.2 but now she can't update it. For some strange reason she's not able to go into the

Hi, The notification icon isn’t cleaned up properly, something that can be fixed by right-clicking both icons. I may need to test your scenario (Add-on Updater running while NVDA welcome dialog is

Hi. When "NVDA Add-on Updater" performs an update and requires NVDA to restart, 2 NVDA icons appear in the system tray when the program restarts. I think this could have something to do with the

Hi, The whole point of selective UIA event registration flag is to limit NVDA to processing events for foreground UIA elements i.e. the app you are using. This works best in Visual Studio, not really

Hi all, Windows 10 App Essentials 20.10.2 is now available. This version includes localization updates and fixes an issue in emoji panel where NVDA may announce first people emoji if this category

Hi Joseph, I restarted the PC before trying it out. Any other reasons why it might not be working? Thanks again. Luke

Great – thank you! I thought there must be someway to do it.

Hi, You can indeed assign a hotkey to activate a given profile, which can be done via input gestures dialog under "configuration profiles" category. Cheers, Joseph

Hi, You must restart NVDA for that change to take effect. This is because the thread responsible for facilitating communication between NVDA and UIA cannot be stopped unless you do it manually from

Edit: typo in the subject. “UA” should have been “UI.”

Hello, I understand that the enable selective registration of UI automation events option was added to address a problem in visual studio where NVDA reads the entire line of code whenever navigating

I love the old task manager! It is great to have it back. I did run into the same problem on the winaero site that I described in another thread. The download link would not work using NVDA and Chrome

Imo the new task manager is much better. I used to use Process Explorer instead of the old (so called classic) task manager, but I don't bother with it much anymore (well, it also doesn't work great

Well, I have definitely noticed that it takes a lot longer for Task Manager to "become active" if you use the detailed view for processes than it did in days past, but that's whether I have a screen

When I open https://bearware.dk/?page_id=353 in Google Chrome latest and press ENTER on the Windows download link, nothing happens. If I use the context menu to copy the

That's true about slower machines. There is an alternative though, a utility that can get classic old Task Manager in Windows 10

Maybe speech mode has been turned off Try nvda+S to cycle through the three speech odes Talk , beeps and off