Author Topic: ctrl + space activates language bar settings & not FARR (Read 15,220 times)

BenRad · « **on:** August 18, 2008, 05:05 PM »

I was messing around with my sound card and I've now somehow mapped the ctrl + space key combo to some sort of text recognition feature of Windows Vista (SP1). This happened once before and of course I didn't document the fix (it may have just fixed itself). Anyone run into this? I hit ctrl + space and Microsoft Anna says, "There is no text". I could use Alt + Space, but I don't want to. Any ideas for remapping? I don't have the language bar running, and I've confirmed that all other languages are disabled and all text related assistance utilities are disabled too.

Thanks...

sri · « **Reply #1 on:** August 19, 2008, 06:10 AM »

http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+narrator+turn+off+vista

BenRad · « **Reply #2 on:** August 19, 2008, 11:43 AM »

I had already checked all those settings. No luck. Somehow ctrl + space has been mapped to activate the narrator and I can't find a reference to it.

BenRad · « **Reply #3 on:** August 20, 2008, 05:04 PM »

Any other ideas? Now the Narrator no longer says anything, Ctrl + Space doesn't work. I've confirmed that it's checked in the FARR settings.

Thanks.

mbarth · « **Reply #4 on:** September 01, 2008, 07:58 PM »

I am experiencing the same problem where the ctrl-space mapping returns an annoying "There is no text" from the narrator. This is especially frustrating since ctrl-space is used in Eclipse for code completion. Were you able to find a solution? Thank you!

BenRad · « **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2008, 02:24 PM »

It had stopped for a while and then it started happening again. Do you use Logitech SetPoint on your system? I thought it might have something to do with that, but I'm not completely sure.

BenRad · « **Reply #6 on:** October 03, 2008, 11:49 AM »

I finally figured this out (or found another post about it on another message board)...
I was using a Yahoo Widget called Month Calendar by Harry Whitfield. It was hijacking the ctrl + space keystroke. I went into the prefs and cleared it out and all is good.

Phew.