Jan,
To answer your questions;
1, No narrorator is not a stand alone screen reader quite yet, but they are
working on it.
2, Go to settings/ease of access/narrator, and uncheck the narrator start up
checkbox. This will stop it from coming up at the start up screen.
Hth,
Kurt
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
Corrie Ten Boom
