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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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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..
There appears to be no way to turn off the feature, but maybe in Windows 9, there might be. The best way to get it removed is to retract any complaints about how hard it was to find out how to shut down a tile app, and make it known that y'all liked Windows 8 just the way it was.. :-)
Yep.. Paris Metro, Austin Metro, Metro grocery stores in Canada.
Microsoft should have called it 'Modtro'. No company would ever go for a name like that which, thinking about it, is probably why Microsoft didn't either.. lol..
Do you have any example(s) of apps that have content you can't possibly click when the title bar is showing? We can escalate these examples as conceptual pieces to the GUI team.
Google Chrome browser in Windows 8 mode. As usual for most browsers these days it has the tabs up there.
I really don't want to take this title bar away from people that like it the way it is now but I strongly recommend that they make this an option to either turn it off completely or make it permanent and reduce the usable screen size.
Do you have any example(s) of apps that have content you can't possibly click when the title bar is showing? We can escalate these examples as conceptual pieces to the GUI team.
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.
In fact I do consider it extremely annoying. Not because of its presence but by the fact that it comes down when I touch the border. The problem is that when I move up the mouse pointer to click something close to the top and go a little too fast, often the title bar hides the thing I actually wanted to click, such that I have to move the pointer back down, wait some time and have to go back up carefully again to not touch the border again. _This_ is what I consider annoying about it. I personally don't care whether I close an app by pulling it down or by clicking the X, and as such the title bar made the mouse experience for me much worse than it was before.
I like the other updates for mouse users but this one is only annoying. I would be ok if it would be present all the time and thus just reduce the app size a bit or if it was not present at all but I really don't like when parts of my app are hidden by not moving the mouse carefully enough.
