Win8 System "Narrator" feature startup, shutdown, and disabling

Open Win8 "Narrator" (narrator)

We can use the "Win key + return" key combination to open narrator, or through the WIN8 search to find this feature. If necessary, you can fix this feature on the Win8 start screen or the traditional desktop.

After "narrator", we can use the mouse, the TAB key or touch to select various elements of the screen, the system will read out the current element of all the text and symbol content. Open the Narrator Settings menu, and you can set its status and parameters accordingly.

Windows 8 Narrator feature settings

Close Win8 "Narrator" (narrator)

After you start the narrator feature, if you want to quit, just press "lock key +esc" to exit the Win8 "narrator" feature.

What if you're sure you want to completely disable the narrator feature of the WIN8 system? Here's how to do this.

Completely disable the WIN8 Narrator feature

To disable the narrator feature of the WIN8 system, the primary approach is to find the relevant executable Narrator.exe, change the user to users, and then set their user rights to deny read and execute.

Press "Win+e" to open Win8 File Explorer and locate the following path: System partition: Windowssystem32,narrator.exe file is included in this directory. Of course, you can also enter "Narrator.exe" direct search in the search field.

Right-click Narrator.exe, select "Properties" from the right-click menu, click the "Security" tab, and tap the "Advanced" button.

Enter the file's Advanced Security Settings dialog window, and then click "Change" after "owner".

Enter the Select User or Group dialog window for owner settings, and click Advanced.

Click "Find Now", then select "Users" from the search results, then click on the "OK" button. Now we'll change the owner to users.

You can now see that the owner has been changed to Users.

Re-select Properties from the right-click menu of the Narrator.exe file. In the Security tab, select Read and execute and read from the Deny column for each user and group's permissions in the group or user name, that is, set the Read and execute permissions for all users to reject, and then click Confirm button

The Read and Execute permissions for all users in the Narrator.exe property are now set to deny.

The narrator feature of the WIN8 system is now set to disabled and, if you want to open, set the Narrator.exe file's user rights to allow read and execute in the same way.