Wanna get rid of the charms bar...? Here's how....


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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!! biggrin.png

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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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

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.

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

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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

EDIT - After a reboot even with Windows.UI.dll replaced, the Desktop Icons still need an F5 to appear so that .dll doesn't seem to to matter

Even though Metro UI is dead, I still have the new task manager which was not the case when you killed Metro in the DP, probably because old code has been removed.

By disabling the Charms bar, how are you going to Print from a metro app now? It sounds ridiculous to remove this bar, it doesn't even get in the way.

I'm pretty sure these people don't want to use Metro apps at all. Without the charms bar, you can't print, change any settings, share anything to or from, or search inside Metro apps.

By disabling the Charms bar, how are you going to Print from a metro app now? It sounds ridiculous to remove this bar, it doesn't even get in the way.

I'm trying to kill Metro completely and leave only the classic Win 7 shell

Replaced all but:

Windows.UI.Immersive.dll

windows.immersiveshell.serviceprovider.dll

And still no Metro, about to reboot with windows.immersiveshell.serviceprovider.dll replaced

EDIT - Ok, so to kill Metro, you only need remove Windows.UI.Immersive.dll from system32

Haven't managed to get the Taskbar to show any icons / stop needing to hit F5 to display desktop Icons yet, but Metro is dead

The taskbar has nothing to click on when you boot, but if you right click and drag a shortcut to it and say Pin to Taskbar, the rest of the shortcuts already pinned become available again, although they are invisible, right clicking them shows their jump lists though so you can navigate

Well, I applaud your effort, but have you tried just getting used to it? I didn't like it at first. I'm a software developer that lives on the desktop, but it grows on you.

Yea I don't mind it on my laptop, not a fan on my desktop though, but this is not really about liking or not liking it, I'm just seeing if it can be done, just for fun :)

I'm trying to kill Metro completely and leave only the classic Win 7 shell

Replaced all but:

Windows.UI.Immersive.dll

windows.immersiveshell.serviceprovider.dll

And still no Metro, about to reboot with windows.immersiveshell.serviceprovider.dll replaced

EDIT - Ok, so to kill Metro, you only need remove Windows.UI.Immersive.dll from system32

Haven't managed to get the Taskbar to show any icons / stop needing to hit F5 to display desktop Icons yet, but Metro is dead

The taskbar has nothing to click on when you boot, but if you right click and drag a shortcut to it and say Pin to Taskbar, the rest of the shortcuts already pinned become available again, although they are invisible, right clicking them shows their jump lists though so you can navigate

EDIT - Taskbar icons are back by choosing from taskbar properties to show small icons and then back to normal sized icons

I think Metro is still running as an invisible layer over the desktop since putting all those .dll's back, when I try to move icons around it shows the blocked sign as if there is something underneath

Time to remove more UI dlls

I'm trying to kill Metro completely and leave only the classic Win 7 shell

Replaced all but:

Windows.UI.Immersive.dll

windows.immersiveshell.serviceprovider.dll

And still no Metro, about to reboot with windows.immersiveshell.serviceprovider.dll replaced

EDIT - Ok, so to kill Metro, you only need remove Windows.UI.Immersive.dll from system32

Haven't managed to get the Taskbar to show any icons / stop needing to hit F5 to display desktop Icons yet, but Metro is dead

The taskbar has nothing to click on when you boot, but if you right click and drag a shortcut to it and say Pin to Taskbar, the rest of the shortcuts already pinned become available again, although they are invisible, right clicking them shows their jump lists though so you can navigate

Nice work man (Y)

Meh, didn't get any further, yes its easy to permanently kill Metro, no its not easy to kill Metro without breaking much of the rest of the OS (Well.. without making it worse than it was with Metro working)

Obviously by design to prevent people doing just that

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