Can't disable voiceover even it's deactivated in Accessibility Control Panel

Hi,
I've recently purchased a headphones, so every time an error message appears in Yosemite this female voice is punishing my ears. I've tried to disable VoiceOver in Accessibility Control Panel, but this voice keeps speaking. So I guess that configuration is in another place. How can I disable this?
Googled it (sorry, search it in internet finder) but every body says the same about this tick in Accessibility Panel.
Kind Regards, and thanks for your time. Manel.

If I understand you correctly, you ought to reinstall. At this point, even if you're able to resurrect this installation, it might be severely unstable. Mostly because of my proclivity for messing around with settings until I screw something up, I have a tremendous amount of experience with the recovery console, and my success rate is not inspiring. If you have data you need on the drive, your best course of action is to reinstall to a different boot drive, and once you’re able to boot, archive the files you want from the corrupted installation. Then you can wax both drives, restore the data and get everything back the way you want it. Getting your data back from the recovery console is basically a lost cause since it doesn't support wildcards (as in, you'd have to copy every freaking file one at a time).
I re-read the above paragraph, and it's not the clearest thing I've ever written, so if you need clarification on anything, let me know.

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