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Old Title: when I move the mouse around the right hand side bar keeps appearing, when I don't want it to.
I recently bought a new computer with Windows 8 and have managed to work with it OK. The thing is that when I move the mouse around, the right hand sidebar with the Search, Share, Start, Devices and Settings buttons (and the date and time, bottom left), keeps appearing. It is so frustrating as I keep having to click to get rid of it. Ironically, when I am ready to close the computer down, I have to fiddle around with the mouse trying to get the damn bar to appear so that I can get the settings button to shut it down. Are there any solutions for this?
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"I am sorry to inform you that we do not have any option to disable the Charms Bar in Windows 8."
OMG, when I pay hundreds of my hard-earned dollars, especially in this economy, I expect to customize my product after purchasing. Did Microsoft have regular people try Win 8 for awhile before releasing it?
Got it!!! Its simple, go to control panel, synaptics touchpad and disable side swipe function, simples. it was really beginning to annoy me.
Hi Deborah,
Thank you for choosing Windows 8 and posting your query on Microsoft Community Forums.
It seems that you are not happy with the “Charms Bar” in Windows 8 as it always appears when you move the mouse pointer to the right hand side of your computer screen and would like to know if we can disable it.
I am sorry to inform you that we do not have any option to disable the Charms Bar in Windows 8. I can definitely forward your suggestions to the concerned department.
Microsoft has designed it for making things faster and easier. The charms bar help you do the things you do most often, like search, share links and photos, connect devices, and change settings without any difficulties.
For more information, please check this link:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/charms#1TC=t1
Hope this information is helpful.
"I am sorry to inform you that we do not have any option to disable the Charms Bar in Windows 8."
OMG, when I pay hundreds of my hard-earned dollars, especially in this economy, I expect to customize my product after purchasing. Did Microsoft have regular people try Win 8 for awhile before releasing it?
Got it!!! Its simple, go to control panel, synaptics touchpad and disable side swipe function, simples. it was really beginning to annoy me.
This issue was driving me crazy with my new week old inspiron 7720 windows 8. I even spent time on the phone with tech support who suggested using an external mouse. I followed your suggestion to disable side swipe function and it worked perfectly. Thank you.
Hello Paul Barnard
It is totally astonishing that MS simply ignore what must now be thousands of complaints about this OS.
As well as contributing often in these pages, I have also written to the Consumer Depts in London and Reading - result - complete silence.
I did try a couple of suggestions offered by MS staff without success. There was also a solution which required messing about in my computers registry but after talking to Lenovo I decided against this. They said that efforts to get rid of the non required features could damage other parts of the OS and may even disqualify warranties.
The only suggestion I can pass on from a MS engineer is forget the touch pad and use a normal mouse. I do this and the terrible features are greatly reduced making the computer usable instead of being a worthless piece of junk
Regards M. Cutlan
I just redid my whole office and I had to make a decision on using latest Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 Ultimate... I went with Windows 7 Ultimate and built an 8 monitor crazy nice office... My next move is to find a solid laptop running Windows 7 because my Windows 8.1 Laptop from Sony VAIO is a piece of ****. Something may be up with Windows 8 and wireless because it does not stay connected well at home. I have had tried Comcast and Verizon and purchased a netgear router for wireless... For the laptop I have tried two USB wireless adapters after the internal one did not work and to this day I cannot figure out how to get my wireless connection to stay connected. I have checked for interference, tried every suggestion with changing channels.... Anyways my old broken windows 7 laptop (Daughter bent flat screen till it broke) and my wifes old XP system stay connected to the wireless network. This laptop will not and it runs windows 8. While experts will try and say I cant blame windows 8 I have to say it is the only common thread with my issues. I have tried multiple routers and adapter combinations and its very unreliable. You cannot run a business on Windows 8. The OS is designed for people who want to watch videos and look at pictures. Beyond that it is useless. More buggy, intrusive, etc. Too bad we could not turn the clock back and make better consumer decisions so Bill Gates did not becomes the chosen one for PC development. The truth is that Bill Gates was an idiot He brought us the buggiest piece of **** software that has caused so much frustration over the last 30 plus years. The only things I felt MS got right was Windows XP Pro and Windows 7 line. Otherwise they plain suck. Its always third party's fault but they never take the blame for having an unstable piece of **** kernel which is very unfriendly to compatibility. Apple came in very late and they did a much better job with stability than MS could dream of.. The real challenge is to take the UNIX design and bring in all the functionality into a windows like environment... Hopefully people realize this and some other big players come in and make something solid that people can rely on to run a business. One clear thing is that Windows 8 is not the answer. If you want to stay in business then stick with Windows 7 line and avoid Windows 8 like the plague. As soon as I get enough money this laptop is going in the trash. I will take the HD out but I wont even sell this on ebay because no one deserves this piece of hardware I have... It has caused me so much stress that I consider this OS to be a liability more than an asset. If you try to shut down and you see "Please wait for all operations to finish message" By all means wait for that to finish because if you hard reboot this OS you will be sorry. I used to hard reboot older OS and very rarely did it cause an issue. Well on Windows 8 it is a 50/50 shot that you will spend a week refreshing, reinstalling, windows backup, methods which by the way its funny this new OS has so many recovery mechanisms. They know how crappy it is so they have all these recovery tools developed because they know you will need to use them often. You see to Microsoft you fix a major kernel issue by just simply developing recovery tools.. THis way everytime you get a support issue for crashing or not booting they can just point you to the suite of tools to recover your POS non working OS. One of these days the billions of profits will run out and they will go down hard and fast. I cannot wait for that day. We need someone with real brains to develop the next stage of computing that will build off UNIX in an effective way to allow developers and users to live in harmony rather than division.
