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Chapter 3: Installing Dragon
Turning off Dragon's use of Microsoft Active
Accessibility Service
DragonNaturallySpeaking and DragonMedical 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 per-
formance 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 and dialog controls
box if it is selected.
4. Click
OK
. You will need to exit and re-start Dragon for this change to take effect.
To turn off Active Accessibility in Dragon for specific
applications
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\N-
uance\NaturallySpeaking11
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:
<executable_name>=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 Micro-
soft Excel, you would add the following lines to
nssystem.ini
:
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