Comment 1 by jteh on 2013-04-22 03:12
Please define not working. Portable NVDA works just fine for me in Firefox.

Comment 2 by andrewd (in reply to comment 1) on 2013-04-23 01:25
Replying to jteh:

Please define not working. Portable NVDA works just fine for me in Firefox.

"Not working" involved no speech, including menus and capslock key. I checked on two machines since, one running Windows7 and one running Windows8 and no problems. I suspect having installed and portable copies on the one machine as the problem - not real clever I know.

Comment 3 by jteh on 2013-04-23 01:30
Having two copies on the same machine should work just fine. I have many more than two. :) Different copies are all independent.

This is very concerning. My only guess is that many things are running as administrator that shouldn't be. As a matter of interest, can you try running nvda_noUIAccess.exe in your installed copy? That version doesn't have the uiAccess privilege and is what you get with a portable copy.

Comment 4 by andrewd on 2013-04-23 04:30
I ran nvda_noUIAccess.exe from the installed copy and it behaved at least as badly as the portable version. I am trying to think what might have changed, as I am sure the portable version used to work fine. Will keep looking.

Comment 5 by andrewd on 2013-05-05 23:24
I am now suspecting that security settings have been changed with a recent update to machines in the unit. If I run portable NVDA as administrator, it seems to be working fine.

this sounds to be an isolated issue to the users machine indicated in #3180 (comment)