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Yes. twinui.dll is 6.3.9600.17031 (winblue_gdr.140221-1952). md5: 32B3BB346DB459BAC01EEE23A989C0F2, sha-1: F41FD7F3F1895FD7CE80573E79FA317AD25D9C73

Wow this feature of terminating Modern apps is exactly my idea! It gets so annoying having to remember to close them using Alt+F4. Edit: But it isn't working for me for any of the methods on Windows 8.1 x64 with Update 1. The app's process is still shown in Task Manager and in my third party Alt+Tab replacement called VistaSwitcher. Edit 2: Fixed

Here are my observations about Windows 8.1 Update 1: 1. If Explorer.exe crashes or exits & restarts, the behavior hasn't improved. It's the same as Windows 8 and 8.1 RTM. Metro apps simply disappear from the Alt+Tab & Win+Tab lists even if their processes don't exit. But now, the Taskbar shows them as running even after Explorer restarts (if the option to show Store apps is on). Switching to them once makes them appear in Alt+Tab/Win+Tab lists. 2. Metro apps pinned to the Taskbar aren't stored at %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar like desktop app shortcuts. Somewhere else. No idea where, don't care, haven't bothered looking. 3. Two features are now shared by the top left corner - the App Switcher and the window menu (or icon of Modern app). You've to precisely move the mouse pointer to the app's icon (but not the top left corner) to avoid accidentally showing the Switcher thumbnail. 4. The window menu of Modern apps (Alt+Space) can't be used using the mouse if you simply move the mouse pointer to the top left corner. Nor does the title bar show just by moving the mouse to the top left corner. You have to touch the top edge of the screen first to show the title bar and then move to top left corner. Even if you disable the top left corner switcher from Taskbar and Navigation Properties, the title bar of Modern apps still doesn't show automatically. But it does show for the top right corner. 5. Close button doesn't close apps but suspends (I guess everyone knows this). Alt+F4, and dragging from top to bottom after app flips are two ways to fully close apps. You can tweak how much you have to drag and how quickly the app flips using Winaero's Close Threshold tool: http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.218 6. Taskbar is on autohide inside Metro obviously but that kind of makes it useless for fast app switching. Sometimes it also fails to appear for me when the mouse moves to the bottom screen edge, sometimes it appears. There is no way that I know of to always show the taskbar nor the title bar, that is, prevent the both of them from disappearing. Any more peculiarities anyone noticed? P.S. The Taskbar changed significantly but the NT main version didn't so 7+ Taskbar Tweaker is broken again.

It's a bug in Windows 8.1 Update 1, not the Start Menus MS fanboys were also tweeting about it. Sometimes the Taskbar just fails to appear when the pointer touches the bottom edge. Sometimes it appears without any problem. It's unreliable. Win+T makes it show every time though.

The default icon is the icon Windows shows for a file not associated with any program.

FxxkMetro works in Windows 8.1. But as Andre said, it will disable essential features.

Yes this works too. I thought you asked how to remove folders without enabling Libraries and TPT will let you selectively remove folders from This PC.

@NoelC, use Winaero's This PC Tweaker for that: http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.213

Is your Windows Defender disabled? Are the anti-virus apps same on the two OSes (or disabled on both) when you tested them?

Here's what changed: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/07/01/8673981.aspx They conclude no one has a problem with it.

There is an updated separate version of Close Threshold for Windows 8.1. Download it from Winaero: http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.218 The Windows 8 version won't work as it uses completely different registry keys.

Back in the dark ages of Windows NT 2000/XP we could create a copy of Console.dll in system32 and rename it to Console.cpl so Control Panel showed "Console Windows Properties" (which we can access from cmd.exe -> Alt+Space -> Defaults). But in NT6 it doesn't work. :angrym: Anyone know a command line way to directly open 'Console Windows Properties'?

And there is one more method without using any 3rd party tools: http://winaero.com/blog/exclusive-how-to-start-a-modern-app-from-desktop-without-going-to-the-metro-start-screen/ to open any Metro app from the Desktop.

My WinRAR 5.00 64-bit crashes silently with OldNewExplorer64.dll registered as shown in Problem Reports. As soon as it is unregistered, it runs correctly. Can repro? Update: WinRAR issue fixed in latest build. Thanks. At the moment, the tweaks I use are 'Use command bar instead of Ribbon' and 'Show details pane at bottom'. Don't use Classic grouping as it adds a scrollbar to This PC at my resolution, I want to avoid scrolling . Also, I use Libraries without hiding all folders from This PC, but do hide select folders using Winaero's This PC Tweaker. And I use the status bar from Classic Shell as it shows more useful stuff. But the 2 tweaks to disable ribbon and move the details pane are absolutely invaluable. The name is very fitting for the product as it allows you to choose a mix of old vs new functionalities.

More fixes for a broken OS which aren't so easy to do! Always welcome. Thanks!!

There are MANY Start buttons on the Classic Shell forum: http://classicshell.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=18 You can use them with other Start Menus too if you want

There is also a skin I created for it so the Start Menu better matches the Transparent (or Opaque) taskbar compared to the stock Windows 8 skin: http://winaero.com/blog/get-the-best-looking-start-menu-for-classic-shell-4-with-winaero-skin-2-0/

There is also a shortcut to open Start menu settings from All Programs. Or you can pin a shortcut anywhere inside the menu itself or the taskbar that points to "C:\Program Files\Classic Shell\ClassicStartMenu.exe" -settings

Hi Soukyuu, thanks for trying Classic Shell and sorry for the last response but I am not well for past few days. Here's a trick you can use to "disable" the Start button. Go to the Start button tab and set the button size under Custom button to 1 and click OK. Rest of the problems I can't repro but if they are bugs, they will be fixed. They are better troubleshooted in the Classic Shell forum so can you please register in the Classic Shell forum and answer these questions. Ivo should help you get going. - Is your taskbar not at the bottom when you are setting disable active corners to "Start screen"? - Do you have a Microsoft account or local account? Is PC connected to Active Directory? Do you have the user picture set in PC Settings? - Order of shutdown submenu is not yet customizable in Windows 7 style, is fully customizable in classic style. No comments about future releases - but your feedback is counted. The shutdown menu commands are grouped logically so "Restart" and "Shutdown" are together, "Sleep" and "Hibernate" are together and "Lock", "Switch user" and "Log off" are together.

They couldn't even get ISO mounting right. If you have one ISO mounted and try to mount another, sometimes it fails to unmount the earlier one and gives some weird error, then mounts the other one under a new drive letter.

Are you setting up a System Image backup in Windows 8.1 on C:\? Wouldn't that require at least one full huge backup before incremental copies start getting created? Then if you mount the VHD, a tool like http://www.shadowexplorer.com should be able to show you the shadow copies. The problem isn't that. The problem is in Windows 7, the System Protection component created backups of system AND non-system files modified in a folder upon a set interval, Windows 8 takes shadow copies of only system files. There was no need in Windows 7 to take a full backup which would certainly greatly fill up the local volume. So some software is needed which watches the file system for modded non-system files/documents using a filter driver and creates a shadow copy of only those modified files. File History is a massive FAIL because it doesn't seem to support incremental snapshots. Doesn't support anything outside of Libraries and doesn't seem to support encrypted files? And many other fails which I haven't bothered looking into. Peter Bright ported the server version of vssadmin to Windows client some time ago: http://flaming-grackles.tumblr.com/post/41091667883/some-notes-on-reinstating-shadow-copies-on-windows-8 If it is compiled and set up with the right switches to create shadow copies upon a schedule, then that's all that's needed along with Shadow Explorer although it won't be as integrated as the neat property sheet of Windows 7.

Restore Points will only cover system files. I thought the shadow copy service doesn't back up documents and other file types any more as the option was removed by Microsoft morons citing some unexplained "performance reason" (I'm guessing it ate too much disk space on the boot volume). You can't have all your space eaten up on low capacity mobile devices. Stick with Windows 7 till the idiots wake up and realize not everyone wants to own a crappy limited mobile device with compromises.

Install the free Classic Shell and set Disable hot corners setting to "Start screen"? Start button on the Taskbar and Win key can be set to open the Start screen, not the menu.

I wrote a nice article about Classic Shell's search box here: Learn the power of Classic Shell's search box (I hope linking to articles is allowed, if not I will delete it).