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

[Rickkins]

Ok, I noticed something. By adding the exe to startup, I seemed to lose my "show desktop" functions. Removing it, and manually clicking it returned the function.

I have repeated the process several times now, and it happens each time. Loading the exe via the startup folder breaks the "show desktop" function. Running the exe outside of the startup folder, does not. Funny.

[giantpotato]

How do you access things like shutdown, wifi, user settings etc. without Metro?

[Detection]

How do you access things like shutdown, wifi, user settings etc. without Metro?

How do you access them in 7 without the start menu ?

Same way.

I just made a toolbar on the taskbar for explorer and added the right click shutdown and restart menu

[Rickkins]

How do you access things like shutdown, wifi, user settings etc. without Metro?

Uh, the same way you always did.

[giantpotato]

Uh, the same way you always did.

I don't understand. The wi-fi menu in windows 8 uses Metro, I thought they removed the legacy code. How do you access this without metro?

[Detection]

I don't understand. The wi-fi menu in windows 8 uses Metro, I thought they removed the legacy code. How do you access this without metro?

There is more than 1 way to skin a cat

Network and Sharing Center

[Eric Veteran]

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.

Try Linux?

[Brandon Live Veteran]

This thread is terrifying.

Deleting Windows.UI.Immersive will break, among a million other things, all system dialogs / context menus / tooltips... I don't even understand how you could get the shell to start after doing this.

And the other ones... my god, if you knew the things that lived in these binaries you wouldn't even think to touch them.

[Dot Matrix]

If you guys are so inclined to destroy your systems, why not just stick with Windows 7?

I can only see some of you going to friends/relatives machines doing this, and bricking their machines. You have no clue what are in those binaries, and what deleting them causes the system underneath.

[argonite]

I got it! Deleting the Windows and System32 folder will disable Metro permanently.

[Order_66]

If you guys are so inclined to destroy your systems, why not just stick with Windows 7?

I can only see some of you going to friends/relatives machines doing this, and bricking their machines. You have no clue what are in those binaries, and what deleting them causes the system underneath.

Hard to imagine "8" being any more broke than it already is, I say let them hack away, as long as it's not harming you or anyone else then let them go.

[firey]

bricking their machines.

uhm.. it won't be "Bricked" the only way to actually brick a computer is to corrupt the bios (power off during bios flash). Worst case scenerio, you put recovery disk in, run an sfc check replace the files and you are back in business.

If windows bricked your computer due to a file being deleted.. they would have a lot more issues on their hands.

[Wakers]

Is it really better to implement something that breaks several features of an OS rather than learning a handful of new keyboard shortcuts?

People are so daft sometimes. Change! No! I must hinder myself rather than adapt!

[mrp04]

Yeah because people like you make this clunky hacks, post them online, and tell people to use them because you HATE the new full-screen start menu so much. Then people go around ****ing their computers up when it is easier to just spend 10 minutes learning how the new OS works.

I don't care for Metro on my desktop. I use it as a full-screen start menu and widget screen. That's all. I only use desktop programs, and it works totally fine. The new things like the new Task Manager and the power user menu (Win+X) are just awesome. I'm constantly pressing Win+X on Windows 7 machines to quickly realize that it isn't available.

[Eric Veteran]

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Let's cut out the trolling, personal attacks and off-topic posts before warnings ensue, yes?

[FaiKee]

This thread is terrifying.

Deleting Windows.UI.Immersive will break, among a million other things, all system dialogs / context menus / tooltips... I don't even understand how you could get the shell to start after doing this.

And the other ones... my god, if you knew the things that lived in these binaries you wouldn't even think to touch them.

Why not? I think that's why there are pre-release previews in the first place, if MS engineers were always correct, there is simply no need for a preview(beta or whatever).

I wouldn't touch my win7's SF's because it is my main OS, but I thought I still have the luxury of doing anything with win8 preview's, in the worst scenario I just need another 15 minutes to re-install.

And....the MS engineers had decided in Vista/Win7 that RTM numbers should be multiple of 16, but if win8RTM would be 8600 as rumored, then they over-rode their own "correct decisions".

[Rickkins]

Again, I never advocated deleting any binaries, so perhaps you should your facts straight.

[Dot Matrix]

Again, I never advocated deleting any binaries, so perhaps you should your facts straight.

Not you, personally, but this thread is:

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

[Eric Veteran]

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Again. Forum moderation is not something up for public discussion.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Alright guys, this is getting out of hand on both sides.

My own view is that if people want to be adventurous and see what happens when they tweak the OS, more power to them. If they want to share their findings, great. Encouraging others to do so, that is something else.

However this thread has degenerated into another debate and we've seen enough of that already.

Going to close this for now for some cool off time.

edit: Please continue discussion. Don't engage in another debate here; there are many other threads for that.

[Fraud OS 11]

This thread is terrifying.

And the other ones... my god, if you knew the things that lived in these binaries you wouldn't even think to touch them.

Metro *is* malware for most of them who like their productivity. :p So this tool is the perfect Metro kill-switch. Kills all visible traces of the Start screen or its apps. :p

[FloatingFatMan]

Metro *is* malware for most of them who like their productivity. :p So this tool is the perfect Metro kill-switch. Kills all visible traces of the Start screen or its apps. :p

And does a hell of a number on the OS as a whole, too. Can't wait for things to explode in their faces. :p

[firey]

And does a hell of a number on the OS as a whole, too. Can't wait for things to explode in their faces. :p

I'd rather have a semi broken Windows 8 without the metro start, than a fully broken on with metro.

[FaiKee]

Metro *is* malware for most of them who like their productivity. :p So this tool is the perfect Metro kill-switch. Kills all visible traces of the Start screen or its apps. :p

I saw some guys telling people not to touch the binaries, well, it's people like xpclient, pandaX, vizion etc, who had been working on the window's binaries and gave us good work-around features.

[Luka Radunovic]

Thanks for heads up. I will try to open described libraries and see if i can tackle code and recompiled it back.