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I am vision impaired and I have NVDA installed on my Windows 10 PC. Last night (after midnight), when Windows decided to auto-update (and reboot) itself, the PC started announcing its progress aloud ("Updating Windows, please don't turn off you computer, 1%, 5%, 10%", etc). I don't know if it was NVDA talking, or Microsoft Narrator. Today I double-checked that both NVDA and Microsoft Narrator have "Autostart after login" and "Autostart before login" disabled. Am I missing some other option that I need to touch?

Stefan Monov
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    If your speakers are separate from your computer, you may want to consider to turn them off, optionally buying external speakers and turn off the internal ones. – LPChip Jun 17 '22 at 07:07
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    Another option is to stick a 3.5mm jack connector in the PC. It doesn't have to be connected to anything. – Gantendo Jun 17 '22 at 07:21

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You may enable Focus assist (also called quiet hours in earlier versions of Windows 10), described as :

allows you to avoid distracting notifications when you need to stay focused. It's set by default to activate automatically when you're duplicating your display, playing a game, or using an app in full screen mode. You can control any or all of these, as well as determining to what level notifications are suppressed.

  • Go to Start > Settings > System > Focus assist
  • Set "Priority only" (see only notifications from a list you can customize to your liking), or "Alarms Only" (hide everything except alarms).
  • Under Automatic rules, set "During these times" to On
  • Click "During these times"
  • Set the hours when you should not be disturbed.
harrymc
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  • Thanks! I did that now. Your quote says "avoid distracting notifications" and I don't think the "Updating Windows, please don't turn off you computer" blue screen counts as a notification. But maybe it does - let's see! :) – Stefan Monov Jun 21 '22 at 06:52