How do I disable the new titlebar in Modern Apps?

Anonymous
2014-04-08T18:42:38+00:00

I installed the new W8.1 update 1 today.  I find the new Metro App titlebar totally stupid, useless, and very annoying.  It apparently only shows on computers with a mouse attached.

Is there a way to disable this titlebar?  I hear it may officially be called a "window menu".

I have been using Stardock's ModernMix to make Modern/Metro useful.  ModernMix is what the new update should have been.  Having this new titlebar popping up across the top of my screen when using windowed modern apps is really annoying!

BTW, what is it nowadays, Modern, Metro, or Retro?  lol

Edit 04-10-2014:  Stardock got this solved real slick with their new ModernMix 1.14 beta.  They even managed to add a window option to the titlebar, which still shows in full screen mode.  Nice!  When you reduce a modern app down to a window, the title bar is disabled.

Pretty slick!  I can't understand why Stardock is so good at this stuff but it takes Microsoft multiple versions over multiple years to get to the same place, maybe!

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-10-26T10:13:44+00:00

    That's why i use the remote desktop app chrome offers,plus i have more file options.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-30T11:38:38+00:00

    When are you going to quit fighting us on this issue and escalate this issue to the UX team as you promised. We all have given you multiple applications in which the title bar is annoying and actually inhibits work. In every case you say- use the desktop variant. We keep coming back with we don't want to and you ignore that.

    I don't want to use the desktop RDP, but want and like the Metro UI version- for various reasons- one being- I am using it on my Surface tablet!!! The auto-hide title bar is really annoying too by the way- sometimes it is hard to get it to show back up if you are not full screen- that obviously wasn't very mouse friendly.

    Please quit fighting us on this, telling us to give up on Metro- obviously you don't like it, but that doesn't mean you have to tell people to hate it too. Send our examples on where it doesn't work out- real productivity apps like TeamViewer, Remote Desktop and I'll throw Chrome in the mix too. We gave you examples now do what you said and quit fighting us on this and send it to the UX team. We want our apps back!!

    Install the Windows 8.1 RTM version and disable Windows Update.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-05-07T07:57:53+00:00

    They should stop making such a big fuss over the complains.

    Windows 8 is fine and is super reliable which is the one factor for my productivity with banging the keyboard, mouse and touchglass.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-05-07T04:37:52+00:00

    One has to find it strange that Microsoft added the features which so many Windows 8 users so desperately wanted, and now they are 'in yer face', nobody wants them.. 

    Just because the "menu bar"'s design goal was to add a feature that the users desperately wanted, it doesn't mean that it was a good design (or is successful -- which it clearly wasn't). The goal may have been valid but the design is so cheesy that it had to be the result of a meeting with marketing executives.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-05-07T04:28:43+00:00

    I know this is old but you are so wrong!

    >No you can't turn off the title bar, but it only shows up for 2 seconds and then won't show again until

    >you specifically touch the edge to pull it down.  So it shouldn't be in your way.

    Using any sort of RDP program (e.g., Citrix Receiver) you hit that upper right corner when trying to close apps in your remote desktop -- then that stupid bar drops down and you accidentally close your whole application. So now I have to start it back up and do my two factor login just because the worst UI design EVER injected itself into what I was doing. This bar may be the only thing that ranks above the idiotic UI design that allows windows to take away the keyboard focus whenever they want and pop some window into the foreground while you are typing.

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