[windows2000] Re: Narrator service running...

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:04:48 +0200

Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:54 PM:

Already looked. Couldn't find it. Will look again.


> Under accessibility in the GPO
> 
> Jim Kenzig
> Blog: http://www.techblink.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>       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.
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