Yes.

Audio enhancements. See if you can turn them off. Just go to Run and type mmsys.cpl, then select your playback device, properties, and see if it has an enhancements tab. There should be a disable chec

Try going to Tools, Account Settings, Junk Settings, and unchecking Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account.

Maybe some window is taking focus after NVDA starts. You can ignore this.

Does it say unknown all the time when trying to use firefox or chrome, or just once at startup?

Why don't you report this on the TC forum? It would take the developer a few minutes to fix, and would save a lot of work figuring this out in an addon. There's an addon for this somewhere, searching

Yes. Alternatively, this should work for both: import comtypes,ctypes;p=comtypes.typeinfo.LoadTypeLibEx(r"c:\windows\syswow64\oleacc.dll");ctypes.windll.oleaut32.RegisterTypeLib(p, u"c:\\windows\\sysw

import comtypes,ctypes;p=comtypes.typeinfo.LoadTypeLibEx(r"c:\windows\syswow64\oleacc.dll");ctypes.windll.oleaut32.RegisterTypeLib(p, ur"c:\windows\syswow64\oleacc.dll", None)

Yes, the original line in #9039: import comtypes,ctypes;p=comtypes.typeinfo.LoadTypeLibEx(r"c:\windows\syswow64\oleacc.dll");ctypes.windll.oleaut32.RegisterTypeLib(p, ur"c:\windows\syswow64\oleacc.dll

Ultimately, if it's the issue I think it is, it's NV Access' responsibility to fix it once and for all. However, since they don't seem to be doing anything about it... My guess is this is an instance

You probably have a config profile. If you don't want one, delete it. If you do, then go read the docs to understand how they work, and how absolutely broken the design is.

Why is this not recommended?

Then you install the portable copy onto the system with the option in the Tools menu. You could also try running as admin after you run it the first time. If you use 2019.3, the default action of nvda

Sure you can. Create a portable NVDA and install remote. Set it up to autoconnect. After that, create a self-extracting archive which automatically runs it. For example, see 7-Zip's help file for -sfx

Try the insert key on the keyboard; maybe that'll work. Or maybe your keyboard just can't do it. To reassign the gesture, go to the NVDA menu, Preferences, Input gestures. Find it in there and reassig

Try using caps lock instead of insert, or the other insert key. Some keyboards aren't capable of registering certain combinations of keys, and yours might be one of them. If that doesn't work, you can

There's an install NVDA option in the tools menu. You can use that, or if you already have it installed, just copy the contents of portable directory\userconfig to %appdata% vda.

No problem. Assuming you're using OneCore or eSpeak, You need to turn on rate boost. Use ctrl+nvda+shift+left and right arrows until you find it, then use CTRL+nvda+shift+up and down to toggle it betw

If you're using the laptop layout, try ctrl+insert+shift+up.

Clipspeak? That wasn't me. Go ask its author. Looking at the webpage on the addons site, it's compatible.