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Your next keyboard will have the charms buttons in it. Will you guys make a tutorial of how to get rid of them with a screwdriver and electrical tape? :D

Autohotkey does that using software.

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.

IMO, If you want this to be an objective discussion, changing the the thread title is the first step. There's nothing 'ridiculous' about the charms bar. The title just feels like flamebait to me.

Your next keyboard will have the charms buttons in it. Will you guys make a tutorial of how to get rid of them with a screwdriver and electrical tape? :D

Uh, actually no, my next keyboard will NOT have the charms buttons on it. Any such keyboard will stay on the vendors shelves.

If you disable Metro, and install one of those start-menu replacements, what happens when you hit the windows key? What about Winkey, then typing to search? For that matter, what happens with all the other winkey shortcuts that use metro? win+p, win+tab ?

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.

Have you considered looking at those DLL's with a resource editor, so that you can rather than removing them completely just hack out the bits that force it to boot to the RT interface?

Have you considered looking at those DLL's with a resource editor, so that you can rather than removing them completely just hack out the bits that force it to boot to the RT interface?

I`ll leave that to the programmers, my coding know how stops at installing the editor ;)

I`ll leave that to the programmers, my coding know how stops at installing the editor ;)

It's not as difficult as you might imagine, you don't necessarily need programming knowledge to use a resource editor

*shrug* now I know what DLL's are being used i'll have a poke about myself when I have a bit more time see if I can work it out.

Just out of plain curiosity, how do any of you ever intend to connect to a Wi-Fi network ever again?

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Also how do you intend to do something that isn't assigned to your power key like Sleep or Hibernate?

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Just out of plain curiosity, how do any of you ever intend to connect to a Wi-Fi network ever again?

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Also how do you intend to do something that isn't assigned to your power key like Sleep or Hibernate?

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1. Network & sharing

2. Classic shell

This is interesting, but honestly, Win8 is what it is. Even if its stable after eradicating Metro, you will loose functionality, and at that point it isn't worth it anymore, other for the fact to say its possible.

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