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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.
have just loaded the driver again ( 16.3.15.1 )
@ Ray
Earlier you had implied that you had tried Toshiba's newest version (16.4)
Oh. Now I see you may have missed that message (reply to myself as a postscript and you replied after that to the first part only.)
Was that one offered to your product number? (BTW what is your product number?) Did you try it? Did it regress? Are you seeing the same symptom that I am with driver regressing? We may have to use the boot menu option to ignore driver signing in order to preserve these versions. I haven't done anything yet to get 16.3.15.1 going again.
Robert
If its a touchpad and it's from synaptics, then you can deactivate this anoying synaptics feature in thier settings. You have to install the driver that is provided by synaptics though. Not the one from Microsoft. Updating the driver from the device manager will not do the trick. You have to download the driver from Synaptics.
Thanks, I'm using the touchpad, from Synaptics, and have just loaded the driver again ( 16.3.15.1 ) but am having a bit of difficulty finding where to deactivate this feature in settings. Sorry for being so obtuse.
Thanks for all the help so far.
Ray
Ah Ha, I have disabled edge swipe in settings, now to see what occurs, or doesn't.
Preliminary tests looking good, I can still get the charms bar if I go to the top right corner of the screen and flick down, or bottom right and flick up, but other than that, all seems well.
Fingers crossed.
