How do I disable the new titlebar in Modern Apps?

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I do use team viewer, constantly.  I'm actually running it right this very moment on my Surface 2 tablet to remotely view my Sony PC at home.

I don't have to "act" like I know what it was designed for, because it was very explicitly stated by the people who did develop it.  It's for touch first.

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You view your home PC. Impressive. I support multiple clients on multiple Windows versions and have accidently closed and had to reconnect to clients on no less than 5 occasions. It's embarrassing, and it wastes time. In order to compensate for it I'm forced to slow down and be extra careful each time I have to close a maximized window.

And you are plainly wrong about the mouse. "Touch First" is not "Touch Only". When Windows 8 was announced and many times subsequently we were given assurance after assurance with examples of how mouse and keyboard users could operate it just as well -- which was always true (until now).

Do you not see the contradiction of your whole argument?  The title bar was added FOR MOUSE USERS. Touch users don't need it and don't see it (as you point out). But MOUSE USERS are having a problem with it. And your solution is to tell them not to use the very apps in which the title bar that was ADDED FOR THEM appears?  Really?

I'm not sure what your agenda is here. The point of a moderator is to facilitate communication in an open forum. What you are doing is creating resistance and turmoil. You are not offering solutions that address our concerns and you are not, in my opinion, contributing in a positive way to the discussion.

What are you trying to achieve?

The problem I run into using Metro RDP on my Surface is that I remote into work and when I want to switch apps it is far easier for me to swipe from the left and change over than it is to go to the taskbar with a mouse and change apps. Also, I like the way all the remote machines are placed in the context bar that pulls down from the top. I find this easier to switch from machine to machine than going to the taskbar and clicking. I also like how metro RDP auto-resized the remote desktop based on the snap size of the RDP app- this is not possible with desktop RDP as it keeps the window at the same size and just adds scroll bars- not very touch friendly.

I am not saying that desktop RDP can't be used, but that I am using a hybrid device, and as such the apps I use are used in a hybrid method- with both touch and mouse at the same time. I can't do that in the desktop RDP client. It is just not possible. I don't use mouse only- I have had a touchscreen laptop for many years- since 2008- I am very well accustomed to how to use touch and mouse at the same time- Windows 8 has taken this to a new level with greater ability to use touch. This title bar has removed some of the ability to use the mouse on a touch friendly app.

If metro RDP were only designed for touch then it should not be possible to remote into any computer that is older than Windows 8, and even then should only be allowed to be in the metro UI. It is ridiculous to think that the app was designed for touch only- it is just not possible to use touch only when remoting into a Windows 7 computer- especially on a 10 inch screen.

Your all wet! WE who like Modern UI and a mouse we should be able to have. After All That is the was the way it was released. These Johnny come lately are the ones who should adjust. After  all I bought a Windows 8.0 for the new unique way it was designed.

That's what the desktop-oriented users say about us!

Thing is, both sides are justified in wanting things to work the way we've gotten used to. Desktop UI-oriented users want to suppress the Metro side, and Metro users would prefer to not have faux-desktop elements imposed on the new UI. Or at the very least, we'd like to be able to turn them off.

If it's possible to hide the taskbar in Metro, largely suppress Charms in the desktop, select whether to boot to desktop or not, surely it should be possible to give the option to hide this titlebar as well. Whether it's practical is another story, but that's for MS to decide.

Connell, I'd like to add to your comment. I'm a 8.1 laptop AND desktop user, and I utterly dislike the presence of the "silver-taped" title bar. The hiding taskbar in Modern. the charms/edges/corners don't bother me when on the desktop computer, and work wonders when on the notebook (I'm an old OSX user and recent Ubuntu user). Completely supress the 8.1 definig characteristics seems a bit strange, but restoring the elements to where they belong (I'm talking about the Modern style menu by clicking with the right button at the start screen) and removing that frankenstein's monster -esque title bar (or leaving it only to the window mode promised to come with the 8.2 update) are surefire measures to fix those breaking mismade fixes.