How do you turn off Fullscreen mode in Windows 8?

Hey everyone!  I found a solution!  I just got a new laptop and its my first time using Windows 8.  Since there's no way to turn off the full screen gesture-function, I just laid my marker tape over the trackpad until it wouldn't recognize the gesture anymore.  Now I can happily work in Chrome!

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PS.  I still need a few layers of tape, but Windows' gesture definitely became less responsive.  The gesture that I'm using is for whoever designed Windows 8.  Get your s*** together!

I would like a simple setting that would allow me to banish the "Modern" UI from view...forever.  If I were using a tablet I might want it, but I'm not.  So even though my laptop has a touch screen, I NEVER want to see those tiles on my work computer.

(Yes, I have figure out how to banish the tablet UI, however it should be a simple on/off switch so that I can help other people turn it off without having to munge the registry.)

Navigate in regedit to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\Metro

Change launch_mode to 1

You can still have 40 separate applications working on Windows 8 across 3 monitors.  Windows 8 didn't take away anything (that's a big misconception).  Just go to the desktop and use it as if it was 7. Same programs, same windows (lowercase w) and same behavior.  You never have to use a full screen app -- you can even delete them if you want.

The new full screen stuff is there if you have a tablet, but if you don't, you aren't forced to use it.

I'm here in Redmond visiting Microsoft this week. As you might image, they are all using Windows 8.  And I've passed hundreds of cubicles of workers and they're all using the desktop, just like you said: lots of windows floating around.

I don't know why everyone keeps thinking Windows 8 has removed that ability.  That's like saying Windows 7 took away the command prompt and "forced" you to use the desktop. The command prompt is not only still there, but many IT professionals use PowerShell daily for their tasks.  In the same way, Windows 8 has a new interface, but many people still use the desktop for their daily tasks.

It really bugs me when you guys say things like that. I know it is not your fault personally, but it is NOT a modern interface, it is an interface from the 1980's and Windows 7 was a vast improvement over that behavior. The fact that this is acceptable or even preferred behavior in a 7" tablet DOES NOT make it acceptable or desired behavior on a 30" Monitor. Seriously guys. If I want to have a calculator for quick calculations in Windows 8 it has to fill my entire 30" Monitor, and I cannot have it on the screen at the same time as the email (or whatever) I am writing so I need to write stuff down on a bit of paper so I can copy the number into the email?

Modern interface?

This was a huge mistake, and while I understand what you were going for, and small parts of it I don't mind, it has completely missed the mark on what people want and need from an actual working computer.

I can have up to 40 separate applications running on my Windows 7, 3 monitor PC and have no less than 10 of them visible at any given point in time. I have absolutely NO IDEA how I would pull that off on a Windows 8 machine without a lot of hacks to turn Windows 8 back into Windows 7 so kindly refrain from describing the new interface like it is an improvement. It was a mistake, and one that could cause serious damage to Mircosoft as it struggles to remain relevant.