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Hello guys!
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to start NVDA on a pendrive without the help of a sighted person?
Of course, the run dialog would not work, because I've used computers with this locked screen, and also, if possible, without the narrator
make an autorun.inf and put it on there alongside nvda, then when you plug in the drive, it runs.
mine is a bit more fiddly seeing how some computers now do have autorun disabled as a security measure but it works for me reliably most of the time.
I always press windows plus E, then type a few letters of the pen drive name like k, i, n for kingston and then I have created a .bat file that starts with a number that runs the program, which contains the following code:
@echo off
start NVDA\nvda_slave.exe launchNVDA -r
end of code
this of course assumes that the nvda-slave.exe file will be inside a folder called NVDA. you can adjust the path otherwise.
in which context, in linux based commands you would run in a bash shell, it often means recursion, i.e. no matter the infrastructure, go as deep as you can at every level and do it there there there and there, etc. I'm sure someone else could explain it better. Some commands, like chmod force you to provide the argument as an uppercase R.
hi, the argument -R in this case has nothing to do with specific command line systems. For more information, see section 15.1 of the current 2017.4 NVDA users guide.
Oh in nvda, the -r just means restart
hi, curious minds still wonder. on windows 7 and above, one can enable narrator on the password screen. they can log in no problem. then, they can bring up the run dialog, type in the drive's letter, for example, "e:" hit enter. now, we can use first letter navigation. that's what I personally did throughout my windows devices, partly because I don't have the knowledge to put together an auto run, but this is yet to let me down. I mean, if we can't log into a computer, because, say, no password, then the auto run won't help, anyway. guess I'm confused, at this point.
If you knew the letter of the drive, you could do x:\nvda.exe where x is the letter, but windows likes to have a play with that shit, so you never can tell. General, A and B don't get used anymore because they were for floppy disk drives, C is the letter of the drive cotaining the OS, from here it diverges, if yourcomputer has a recovery partition, or a system partition, that will usually be D, if not, if it has an optical CD / DVD drive, that will usually be D. If the computer has a card reader, each one of those slots ets its own letter if its USB, if its built in, it usually only assigns a new letter when a card is plugged in. If the computer does not contain a CD / DVD drive, or a system partition, its likely the USB mght be D, if not, it could be E, but once you've laid out this logic, you might as well play eenie meanie meinie mo
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