Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Disable Narrator keyboard shortcut in Windows 8

I have pressed Win Key + Enter many times while attempting to press Alt + Enter, and every time I have to listen to the Narrator speak out the process of me closing the narrator. Here is how to disable the narrator keyboard shortcut by disabling access to Narrator.exe.

  • Navigate to %systemroot%\System32
  • In this folder a file called Narrator.exe is to be found
  • Right click the file and choose Properties
  • Choose the Security tab and press Advanced
  • In the top of the window press Change to change the Owner permissions
  • In the text field write your username and press OK to all the dialogs

Now you should be able to change the permissions of the file, this is where we remove all the permissions from your user and the user back to system, this way your user will not be able to start the Narrator.

  • Right click the Narrator file again and choose Properties and Security tab
  • Press Advanced
  • Now that you are the owner you can change permissions for other users. Choose your own user and press Edit
  • Remove the Read & Execute and Read permissions and press OK
  • Now press Change in the top under Owner and write system in the text field
  • Press OK to all dialogs
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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Error 0x80072f8f when trying to activate MS Windows

Just fix the date/time in Windows, either by syncing with a time server, or manually.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Uninstalling FFscroll from OSX

1. Go to System Preferences
2. Right click FFscroll
3. Remove
4. go to Terminal and type
sudo rm -fr /Library/StartupItems/FFScroll
5. enter your password

This only prevents it from starting up, and from System Preferences. I believe in order to completely remove it, you have to replace ApplePS2Controller.kext with the original one as well; just disabling it from startup did it for me though.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Message "Folder In Use. Close the folder and try again." in Vista

I created a folder called "sh" on c:\, dropped a couple of documents inside and shared it. A couple of hours later , I tried to delete the folder and its contents. Note that I didn't even touch the documents in that folder on my computer or any of the other computers.

Nevertheless I get a lovely message:
"Folder In Use
The action can't be completed because the folder is open in another program
Close the folder and try again. "

I managed to delete the contents of the folder manually, but the folder itself would refuse to go. I even tried to end explorer.exe and delete the folder from commandline, same error. Then I found this.

MS sais it's a bug and that it occurs after trying to delete a shared folder. Their solution is:
In this case, you have to restart the computer. After that, you can delete the folder.
Worked for me :D