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

This is ridiculous. Every time I try to close something in Citrix I end up closing Citrix itself! And when I press the start button on a Windows 7 Citrix machine I end up pressing the Windows 8 home screen button! This black bar is awful! Let us turn it OFF!!

And I apologise but, I cannot follow or make any sense out of this...

"when I press the start button on a Windows 7 Citrix machine I end up pressing the Windows 8 home screen button!"

 Or what it has to do w/ your comments regarding the APP control bar.  Possibly you could/would try to better explain what you have said.  Please & thank you.

Cheers,

Drew

And I apologise but, I cannot follow or make any sense out of this...

"when I press the start button on a Windows 7 Citrix machine I end up pressing the Windows 8 home screen button!"

 Or what it has to do w/ your comments regarding the APP control bar.  Possibly you could/would try to better explain what you have said.  Please & thank you.

Drew, I believe that he added a general comment about an issue in Win8 that applies to the Remote Desktop conversation in this thread. Once you develop the muscle memory to go to the lower left hand corner to activate the start screen, you tend to do that all the time. In a remote environment like Citrix or RD, that is a liability. You are constantly accessing the local computer instead of the remote computer.

To be fair, the only reason we developed this muscle memory was because MS decided to remove the Start Button completely in Win8. RD in Win 8 was truly a nightmare with a mouse because it was next to impossible to activate an invisible button by going quickly to the lower left hand corner of a floating window.

In regards to your comment about you can't please everyone, I think you need to look at how MS usually handled things in the past. They used to have a phased migration, with options to revert to previous behavior. Those options would eventually be phased out as users got used to the new way of doing things. Now, MS is on such a rapid release cycle that just when we start developing the muscle memory for the new way of doing things, they change it on us. I am trying to adapt to moving target, but I have to get work done. Unfortunately for every frustrating change, I get 2 or 3 useful new features, so upgrading is a must.

Sometimes we just need to vent. If you can't provide a positive solution, why criticize those giving feedback? Maybe if we yell enough, maybe MS will hear us and give us more options to work more efficiently. If we didn't speak up, we would have ended up with a Windows 8.1 without a Start Button, which again is a nightmare for Remote Desktop.

We might be a small minority, but we tend to be decision makers in the companies we work for.

Hello Shawn,

I have just updated to the new 8.1. I am also unhappy with having the title bar permanently appearing because I use a mouse. It was unfair to generalize that all mouse users wanted this moving forward. Now we want Microsoft to be aware that the complaining will continue until this feature becomes optional.

This feature takes away the appearance of some modern apps. And saying basically if you have a mouse, you have no choice because mouse=mouse controls is infuriating. If the change took place because of the voice of the people, well, I have a voice as well and ask Microsoft for an another update. That is the purpose of updates.  So please pass this information to your superiors, and know it will continue.

Thank you

Hello Shawn,

I have just updated to the new 8.1. I am also unhappy with having the title bar permanently appearing because I use a mouse. It was unfair to generalize that all mouse users wanted this moving forward. Now we want Microsoft to be aware that the complaining will continue until this feature becomes optional.

This feature takes away the appearance of some modern apps. And saying basically if you have a mouse, you have no choice because mouse=mouse controls is infuriating. If the change took place because of the voice of the people, well, I have a voice as well and ask Microsoft for an another update. That is the purpose of updates.  So please pass this information to your superiors, and know it will continue.

Thank you

I would just ignore Keene's self-contradicting, ridiculous apologia for Microsoft. He argues on the one hand that mouse users should just use the Win 8 desktop rather than the Modern/Metro environment, and on the other hand that the new title bar is a helpful concession to mouse users. If Microsoft released an update that required all Windows 8 users to dance in front of a Kinect in order to interact with the system, I'm sure he'd find some illogical way of justifying that as well, and harshly reprimand anyone who had any misgivings about it whatsoever.

Despite Keene's for the company however, it is ultimately the majority of customers that Microsoft will listen to, so by all means, keep letting them know how you feel about this regressive new "feature" and encourage others who feel the same way to speak up as well.

Hello Shawn,

I have just updated to the new 8.1. I am also unhappy with having the title bar permanently appearing because I use a mouse. It was unfair to generalize that all mouse users wanted this moving forward. Now we want Microsoft to be aware that the complaining will continue until this feature becomes optional.

This feature takes away the appearance of some modern apps. And saying basically if you have a mouse, you have no choice because mouse=mouse controls is infuriating. If the change took place because of the voice of the people, well, I have a voice as well and ask Microsoft for an another update. That is the purpose of updates.  So please pass this information to your superiors, and know it will continue.

Thank you

The company has to listen to the voice of the majority.  Most folks who, for whatever reason, dislike the recently presented APP control bar, just ignore it.  Most people wanted it.

Cheers,

Drew

PS:  Remember, one cannot please everyone all the time, in any context.