Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Document silent uninstallation of NVDA in the user guide #17203

Merged
merged 4 commits into from
Sep 30, 2024
Merged

Document silent uninstallation of NVDA in the user guide #17203

Changes from 3 commits
Commits
Show all changes
4 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
73a7134
Documented silent uninstallation
SaschaCowley Sep 23, 2024
62e4d8e
Merge branch 'i16966' of https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda into docume…
SaschaCowley Sep 23, 2024
8e48f1b
Update user_docs/en/userGuide.md
SaschaCowley Sep 23, 2024
5cd2785
Apply suggestions from code review
SaschaCowley Sep 25, 2024
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions user_docs/en/userGuide.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -5258,6 +5258,16 @@ Following are the command line options for NVDA:
|None |`--create-portable-silent` |Creates a portable copy of NVDA (without starting the new copy). Requires `--portable-path` to be specified. This option suppresses warnings when writing to non-empty directories and may overwrite files without warning.|
|None |`--portable-path=PORTABLEPATH` |The path where a portable copy will be created|

Much as you can silently install NVDA by passing the `--install-silent` command line option to NVDA, it can be silently uninstalled by passing the `/S` command to the uninstaller.
SaschaCowley marked this conversation as resolved.
Show resolved Hide resolved

NVDA's uninstaller is called `uninstall.exe` and resides under the NVDA installation directory, `%ProgramFiles(x86)%\nvda` on 64-bit Windows, or `%ProgramFiles%\nvda` on 32-bit Windows.

Following are the command line options for NVDA's uninstaller:
SaschaCowley marked this conversation as resolved.
Show resolved Hide resolved

| Short |Long |Description|
|---|---|---|
|`/S` |None |Silently uninstall NVDA. |

### System Wide Parameters {#SystemWideParameters}

NVDA allows some values to be set in the system registry which alter the system wide behaviour of NVDA.
Expand Down