After all, with a suite of 30 computers spouting out profanities from their speakers it needs to be turned off.Īll the ways on the internet mention the ease-of-access disable tool which is available, but unfortunately across a network this cannot be rolled out simply and there is always the risk of an update or service pack undoing your work thus making you have to go around every computer manually once again. Anyhow, back to the my original point (not going to rant here), we needed to find a way of getting rid of the EoA button to stop the kids from turning on the high contrast mode for all users and of course to stop the narration tool. For schools, we have to trim down the desktop to make it as easy to use as possible whilst locking out the little evils that can get tampered with to make everyone else’s life hell. Microsoft developed a, dare I say it, pretty damn good OS when it came to Windows 7, but for a company that wanted this to replace XP in a corporate and education environment it just isn’t ready. Yup we’re talking about the ‘Ease of Access’ button at the bottom left of every login/lock screen. For the normal world it wouldn’t really be considered a problem but for comprehensive schools especially, it proves an annoyance. I was called by a school this week about an issue with Windows 7.
