How to disable top bar for closing apps in windows 8.1 update 1?

Bollocks! This is SOFTWARE. You absolutely can make everyone happy. It's called providing options. Why are you even bothering with replies to this thread? You are not providing any assistance.

And you do not need to be rude.  All the arguing and complaining about things that is taking place in this thread is not providing any assistance to anyone nor is it productive in any real way.

And I had quit bothering to reply to this thread ( if you had noticed) quite a while ago) for the very reasons stated above.

Many options exist or have been added & people still whinge proving the old adage that you cannot please everyone all the time, no matter what is done or given or to what feedback you respond.

Now, I'll go back to not bothering w/ this thread, any more.

Cheers,

Drew

Bollocks! This is SOFTWARE. You absolutely can make everyone happy. It's called providing options. Why are you even bothering with replies to this thread? You are not providing any assistance.

That is because you need to move your arrow up to the top of screen. I hate it too and hope that Microsoft will do as the comment above said and make it optional. I also hope to see the same with the visible charms at top right of start. I prefer using the charms bar on the right to do those actions.  BTW, another reason y you might not see the top bar is because you have not installed windows 8.1 Update 1 yet. Yeah one might think of it like a redo.

I have the very same problem. I find the "slight delay" of appearing of the left bar also annoying. Why do I have to wait for it?

It is nice of Microsoft to think about making the mouse experience with Windows Apps better, but the tittle bar popping up is not  a better option. Especially when using a trackpad with windows 8 gestures, it is absolutely a irritating and ugly solution. The trackpad acts like a mouse but has the multitouch gestures.

When apps start, the new title bar is on the splash screen, which are designed to be in full-screen. Very ugly. The clean feel of windows apps just got a bit less clean feel about it.

And MOST importantly, when using an app and want to click on a browser tab or a button, mostly your mouse will hit the upper screen activating this new title bar, and than you have to wait for a full second to let it disappear again in order to click the tab or button. This makes the mouse experience worst instead of better. 

I would rather wish they would make switching between apps and desktop programs more the same, why does alt+tab still not also switch apps, and why does the new windows 8 swipe to switch between apps, see desktop as one app instead of all active desktop programs as individual programs.

I get that people get mad by the annoyance it produces because it is totally whack and has design flaws even an intern should not make. I got furious while using some apps with this title bar. Some apps I hate to use now because of it. 

PLEASE Microsoft make the new title bar in Apps option-able.