Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Administrator Guide - Nuance

Dragon 12 Administrator Guide
Turning off Dragon's use of Microsoft Active
Accessibility Service
Dragon NaturallySpeaking use Microsoft Active Accessibility Service to let you control certain
menus and dialog boxes by voice. Without Microsoft Active Accessibility Service, you would be
unable to use Dragon to select menu commands and dialog box controls with your voice.
If you don't need to control the menus and dialog boxes by voice, you can speed up Dragon performance
by turning off Microsoft Active Accessibility Services.
To turn off Active Accessibility Services in Dragon for
all applications
1. Open the Options dialog box by selecting Tools > Options on the DragonBar.
2. Click the Miscellaneous tab.
3. Clear the Voice enable menus, buttons, and other controls, excluding box if it is selected.
4. Click OK. You will need to exit and re-start Dragon for this change to take effect.
Use a command line to turn off Active Accessibility in
Dragon for specific applications
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1. Exit Dragon.
2. Open nssystem.ini in a text editor. In Windows XP, by default, nssystem.ini is located in:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking12
See Dragon file structure for information on Dragon paths in other Windows operating
systems.
3. Under [MSAA Modules Disabled], add a line similar to the following for each application
where you want to disable the use of Active Accessibility Services:
=1
4. Save and close nssystem.ini.
5. Re-start Dragon.
For example, to disable Dragon use of Active Accessibility Services in Microsoft Word and Microsoft
Excel, you would add the following lines to nssystem.ini:
[MSAA Modules Disabled]
winword=1
excel=1