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[Rickkins]

Mod edit: Please only do this if you know what you're doing and can revert changes easily.

Originally posted by Faikee. I hope he doesn't mind...

http://rapidgator.ne...kMetro.zip.html

Taken from this link at MDL
http://forums.mydigi...eak-from-PCBeta

And, the blurb that came with in.

http://bbs.pcbeta.co...057890-1-1.html

Remember
1. If you find yourself missing the Metro after all? Don't worry, reboot and things become normal again.
2. remember, remember: the hot key Alt-F4, you will need it.

Have fun!!


On launching the tweak:

1. You will get nothing when hoovering the mouse over the screen's 4 corners, nor the win+C hotkey.
2. When trying to open music/photo, etc, with a metro apps, it will give a "fail to call program" error.
3. It works with ViStart, I presume it should work with Classic Shell too, but Start8 is basically all-apps metro page on desktop, so i don't know if it would work.

I have not tried it in depth, so I don't know if it would bring bad effects on Windows OS. try it at your own risk.

Edited by Denis W, 22 June 2012 - 14:36.

[Javik]

If only this were permanent.

[Raa]

I'll bet that "feature" won't go into the RTM version...

[siah1214]

You folks are silly, to be honest.

[D.J.P]

siah1214, on 19 June 2012 - 02:55, said:

You folks are silly, to be honest.

so we who don't like Metro and/or its Windows 8 Implementation, but like all the other improvements are now silly?

I like seeing tweaks/mods like this, as it all helps return Windows 8 to what (In my opinion) it should be rather then the joke it is.

[+Preppy]

What problem are you trying to solve here?

[+SharpGreen]

And yet if you folks put this much effort in actually learning how efficiently use the default Win8 setup I'd bet you wouldn't hate it so much.

[nMIK-3]

So you want to remove the Charms bar and basically loose access to the following:

1. A universal Search
2. Settings option for all Metro Apps
3. A universal Share ability

Why anyone will want to do that kind of damage to the OS?

[Kelxin]

nMIK-3, on 19 June 2012 - 05:33, said:

So you want to remove the Charms bar and basically loose access to the following:

1. A universal Search
2. Settings option for all Metro Apps
3. A universal Share ability

Why anyone will want to do that kind of damage to the OS?

Actually, I'd like to loose "all things metro" and be done with it.

I want the new file system, I want the new underlying OS. Just drop the asstastic UI changes.

[Abhinav Kumar]

Kelxin, on 19 June 2012 - 05:36, said:

Actually, I'd like to loose "all things metro" and be done with it.

I want the new file system, I want the new underlying OS. Just drop the asstastic UI changes.

You may also want a spell-checker?

[Rickkins]

I added the exe to my startup folder, works fine.

[Detection]

I just removed these files from C:\Windows\System32 in Windows 8 and it has permanently killed Metro, Boots to Desktop too



Not without some side effects though, No desktop Icons / Taskbar shortcuts although they all still work if you can remember which are which

Going to try adding different files back and see if I can't get the normal desktop back without Metro


EDIT - Replacing Windows.UI.dll has brought the Desktop Icons back after hitting F5

[Arceles]

Good, at last the metro disablers are coming, great for anyone who wants to try the os without loosing so much functionality...

[MarkusDarkus]

Oh. I was expecting to see something along the lines of 'install Win7/*nix' in the post and to see Warwagons name at the top. lol

[~Johnny]

Arceles, on 19 June 2012 - 12:56, said:

Good, at last the metro disablers are coming, great for anyone who wants to try the os without loosing so much functionality...

? These hacks don't give you any extra functionality - they don't add anything that's not already there in the OS. They make you lose functionality.