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
    2013-11-17T23:07:55+00:00

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, short sweet and correct~! you are the best~SkunkDiesel

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-04T02:32:16+00:00

    I hoped that this post being from a Microsoft engineer might actually have a solution, but alas.  Just another useless link to waste my time and divert me from my quest to disable the infernal full screen mode.  Anyone with actual instructions, feel free to respond.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-09-25T15:18:37+00:00

    I'm used to PCs that didn't act like touchscreen phones.

    I just know that my screen didn't randomly go "fullscreen" for no reason when I was on crappy Vista or non-crappy Windows 7. So no, it doesn't matter what program I'm in-- with all the touchscreen settings **** off my touch pad, my NON-touchscreen laptop will randomly go into fullscreen when I'm utilizing the touch pad.

    I don't know what's going on. I've spoken to several owners of NON-touchscreen Windoze 8 laptop owners, and they complain about the same thing. They basically get the same answer from Microsoft--- so our solution is that we now use a mouse with our laptop-- totally defeating the purpose of using a laptop. However, we don't get the random "Going into Fullscreen Mode press F11 to undo" fiasco when using a mouse.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-09-23T18:50:20+00:00

    How would you take snapshot.. ? I would like to use snipping tool to take a snapshot.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-09-15T01:01:30+00:00

    Since I started launching from the desktop #1 I have none of the problem of jumping full screen and back, and #2 it now launches from the Start menu in desktop mode. Not even sure how I did that, but-- problem solved. :D

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