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
    2014-11-28T07:14:44+00:00

    It looks like Windows 10 will cement the titlebar with all apps. There will be no way around this as apps appear as normal windows and these require some sort of handle to move them around.

    Of course Windows 10 is still in preview.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-09T11:37:00+00:00

    Modern UI Remote Desktop is UNUSABLE with this stupid f**** bar.

    How do I get rid of it?

    I'm a huge fan of Windows 8.1, both on my tablets and on my laptop and desktop, but this bar is stupid. 

    Everytime you try to close or minimize an app in RDP it kills the modern Remote Desktop application.

    I understand there are simpletons out there who couldn't cope with the new Modern UI. Let them use windows 7. Move On, put this back how it was, dragging down to close the app was fine.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-12-09T14:28:05+00:00

    The technical preview is also desktop UI focused. I wouldn't make any judgements on the final design based on what we're seeing now. We don't know how the Modern UI is going to look just yet. Hopefully this superfluous titlebar will be removed or removable in "Modern mode". And I hope Modern UI will be accessible on traditional computers.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-12-10T14:47:55+00:00

    +1 from me on this RDP/title bar issue. +1000. Aw heck .. +googal

    Like many posters here I too have been living with that darn pop-down title bar for far too long, for many reasons already posted. Yesterday I was RDP'd (using Metro/Modern/Store app) into work, and from there opened an RDP window (desktop app) to a client system. Second RDP opened full screen with that blue title/control bar in auto-hide mode. Could not hover the mouse high enough to get that control bar back, the Metro title bar kept getting in the way. I finally had to close Metro RDP and reconnect using desktop RDP long enough to get control back.

    That was the last straw. I decided to search the web for an answer and found this thread. While I'm depressed that there does not seem to be a way to hide that thing, I'm somewhat comforted (but sad, really) that I'm far from alone in this frustration.

    Thank you, whoever suggested right-clicking on the title bar. Far from perfect, but I no longer have to wait for it to go away.

    Microsoft - please listen to your users!!!  (yeah, it's feeling a little futile right now....)

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