How do you turn off Fullscreen mode in Windows 8?

Anonymous
2013-01-25T16:30:06+00:00

Despite all of the annoyances of Windows 8, I must say, the random "switching to fullscreen mode" is the most aggravating. . I thought I turned off full screen mode, but it keeps doing that fullscreen.... thing. It's done it -at least- 5 times while I typed this.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-03-06T16:49:51+00:00

    yeah - lets take the new modern Windows 8 operating system and make it single threaded so that you can actually only use 1 app at a time.

    Did Microsoft even consult a single user before deciding to cripple the OS in this manner?

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-13T23:09:06+00:00

    are you serious that someone actually thinks locking my display in full screen is a feature? It is an amazingly serious design flaw. I NEVER NEVER NEVER do anything full screen - that way I can move all of my windows around at will and reference as many of them as I need. my PDF in a small window, my ppt the same. three shrunk explorer windows, all serving as source documents for the word document I am creating. But now I have to have that PDF doc full screen, which means I simply cannot do what I want?

    Microsoft needs to fix this seriously glaring judgment error and restore usability to the users - the way users actually want to use their computers.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-01-26T18:04:21+00:00

    That's not what I meant. I mean when you move your finger around and it randomly gets big. There's this tiny box that says : "You've gone fullscreen, Exit Full screen (F11).  How do I stop Windows 8 from doing that at random?

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-03-06T16:52:02+00:00

    "Cannot turn it off" - as in Microsoft made a conscious decision to make Windows 8 a single threaded OS and cripple the interface, dramatically limiting usability?

    I hope the engineer who made that decision gets fired.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-03-05T14:05:23+00:00

    I have this same annoying issue. It's driving me nuts. It's only when I'm using a web browser that it happens. 

    Come on Microsoft and Support Engineer. Give us a fix please.

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