Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:45 PM: Logon locally and physically on the domain on the actual server. Yes, I use the same account. Turning it of by GPO seems interesting. Would you know where this setting is location in eg the default domain policy? I just tried to logon to the culprit server in a Gencontrol (VNC)-session over a rdp-connection to another server. That worked. No Narrator whatsoever. Weird... Thx for the feedback. > When you say logon locally are you logging on to the domain or the local > machine? Are you using the same account for rdp and local logon? This > setting is a per user profile setting, you can turn off accessibility in > GPO. However all you should need to do is a change user /install from a > command prompt as admin and go to accessiblity from the start menu and turn > it off. then do a change user /execute from the command prompt and should > be turned off for everyone. Of course the other way to do it is to just > rename or change the security access to deny the user to run it on the > narrator.exe in %SystemRoot%\system32\narrator.exe and that will surely > stop it. > Jim Kenzig > Blog: http://www.techblink.com > > > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > For some reason the narrator service is running on two DCs at a department > I admin... > > Whenever I try to login to either of them over RDP and I get to a > particular character in the password the narrator service starts speaking > to me and I can't enter the password properly. > > Strangely enough, if I logon locally to the DCs, I don't see the narrator > service. > > Any idea how this came to be (accidental press of some special > key-sequence?), and how I get rid of the friggin' narrator service? > > TIA. > -- > BW, > Sorin > ----------------------------------------------------------- > # Sorin Srbu [Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] > > # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM > # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 > # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 > # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b > # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se > ----------------------------------------------------------- > # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail > # /\ > # > # MotD follows: > # Many of our departmental PCs won't run Vista. They don't make cinnamon > buns either. In both cases nobody here much cares. -Me