How do I disable the new titlebar in Modern Apps?

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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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Anonymous

2014-04-09T02:37:18+00:00

Not crazy about it, but at least it's relatively unobtrusive. Hopefully the next update will allow us to turn it off. If I wanted to see desktop-like elements I'd use the desktop.
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@CmdrKeene 90,631 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2014-04-09T00:25:09+00:00

They can't call it Metro because another company already has that. So they just refer to it as "Windows Store apps", or some programmers call them immersive apps because they are full screen.

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.
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