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The Narrator is one annoying windows feature and i wanted to get rid of it.
So i decided to change the file permissions. I took ownership of the Narrator.exe which was located in the Windows System directory and used icacls to deny the execution of this file.
takeown /f %windir%\system32\Narrator.exe
icacls %windir%\system32\Narrator.exe /deny *S-1-1-0:(RX)
It worked and the user was not able to launch narrator by pressing Win + Enter keys.
The problem started when a user clisked Win + L + enter. It invoked narrator. And since then, Win + enter also invoked narrator.
Can anyone help me understand how Win + L altered the behavior ?
Sachin Verma
Posted 2016-04-13T09:58:23.090
Reputation: 1
WIN + L should have just locked the system. That is interesting Behavior. – NetworkKingPin – 2016-04-13T10:01:31.467
@NetworkKingPin , i have actually disabled that feature as well :p But Win + L is now playing with the file access permissions .. and i am not able to undestand how. – Sachin Verma – 2016-04-13T10:08:41.283
Hmmm. Im wondering if the computer is still thinking it is locked thus Narrator.exe would be active from the lock screen. Change the .exe to .txt and it wont activate anymore. – NetworkKingPin – 2016-04-13T10:11:32.943