Very, Very Naughty
Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 1:03PM This is Caspian.
He does what he wants.
Mostly what he wants is to be naughty. He jumps on counters, mercilessly attacks Ju Ju Bee, kicks the poodle out of her bed, bites ankles, steals food … he is very, very naughty.
When he is not being naughty, Caspian is sprawled across my bed. I believe he thinks the room make over was for his benefit. Since it got done I can not keep him out of here.
Although, to be fair, if you saw the state of Reagan’s bedroom you wouldn’t blame the cat for wanting to sleep anywhere else.
And when he is not being naughty or lying on my bed, Caspian combined those two pursuits in the relentless stalking of lap top computers. If one of us opens a laptop, he is suddenly right there wanting to cuddle with it. I would guess he likes them because they give off heat, but he just will not leave them alone.
Yesterday, I didn’t even know he was in the room when I walked away from my open lap top. When I heard it giving off new and strange noises I turned around to find the cat lying across the keyboard with his paws on the mouse pad. I have no idea what he did or how he did it, but my computer now has a narrator.
An incredible annoying narrator.
Across the bottom of my screen is a text box that tells me everything I am doing.
It tells me what is in my email.
It tells me what website I am on.
It tells me what I am doing on the websites.
It knows more about my computer than I do and says things I do not understand.
The worst part is that if I don’t have my settings on “mute” it says all of these things OUT LOUD.
It’s driving me crazy, but the guy who did it - Caspian - will not tell me how to undo it.
Does anyone out there have better tech skills than my cat? Because I do not. And I want this gone. NOW.
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Reader Comments (12)
I don't have an answer but I couldn't stop laughing either. Good luck and perhaps ask JuJu Bee?
Hahahaha. Ok so knowing that I have cursed myself to some weird computer malfunction soon, was not enough to keep me from rudely laughing at your predicament. . . Because, well because I am just rude like that.
;)
Can you find,anything in settings to change that? Maybe display settings?
Hope you get it changed soon, that would drive me nuts.
I would look under accessibility options in your control panel folder. If its just tied to online stuff, I would look for the same type if thing in your Internet options. I don't have a laptop here to check but I'm guessing it has something to do with that.
Is there a weird icon clear at the bottom of the screen? Hover the cursor over each pic down there and see if one of them say Narrorator or the link . Then right click on it and chose exit. Let me know if that helps. Cause if not we will try something else.
Thanks for the suggestions, I finally googled it and with much trial and error figured it out. It's a feature called "narrator" and it's a simple Command+F5 to undo it.
So relieved!
it would have been really funny if the narrator only meowed...
That is hysterical ~ sorry, can't help :-)))
Oh my goodness...glad you figured it out! How annoying! What a silly cat! :)
Okay, it's crazy that's something a computer can do! And while it kinda seems annoying, I also feel strangely tempted to make my computer constantly tell me what I'm doing, in a it's-like-living-in-a-movie sort of way.
He's a spy, on mission to befuddle your life.
Darn cats. I'll count myself lucky that we don't have a laptop.
Ohmygosh...now that you've resolved it, can I say this is hysterical?! I've never heard of this setting. Only you, Mindee... :)