How do I disable the Windows 7 Magnifier?

Anonymous
2009-11-06T02:48:59+00:00

How do I disable Windows 7 Magnifier all together? It have the check box unchecked for starting at startup but my mouse button still starts it. I use to use that button for something else and Windows will not let me map it to the other application.

Any help would be appreciated.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Accessibility

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Anonymous
2009-11-09T02:31:10+00:00

Hi wil2liv,

Thank you for using the Answers forum,

Give this a try:

Click on the Start button

All Programs

Accessories

Ease of Access Center

Then click on 'Make the computer easier to use' near the bottom.

Then unchecked 'Turn On Magnifier'. Hit OK and you're done.

Let us know if this helps,

Kevin

Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-07-26T23:46:44+00:00

    Thank you thank you thank you! I wish i would've read your comment first. Thank you for fixing this issue which has bugged me for the longest time. :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-07-26T23:45:14+00:00

    This only helps when you're in your session. you can exit out of magnifier easily by clicking the "X". We are looking for ways to stop it from auto starting at "start up" This wouldn't be very helpful in this situation.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-07-26T23:43:22+00:00

    I love how you make it sound soooo simple. Yet that didn't work on mine. I went there, checked the control center for "ease of access". The magnifier was unselected. I restarted my system and BAM! Whatya know!! The magnifier is STILL THERE!! So you're instructions may work for some, but not for all when it comes to the "ease of access panel" I have also tried renaming the file in the system32 folder, it didn't work either. I'm getting quite frustrated with the whole thing and this threat is very unhelpful at this point. 

    Anyone else with some useful ideas?

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-06-28T17:15:17+00:00

    Open task manager by pressing ctrl+alt+del and select magnify.exe from the list of processes and click end process button.

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