Completely Disabling The Bottom Left Hot Corner?

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While I've been greatly enjoying Start8 so far, there's one thing that has continued to confound me, and I was wondering if anyone had any insight into this.

The "Disable bottom left hot corner" mostly disables that hot corner, but functionally it seems like it's repurposing the hot corner more than it's actually disabling it. Case in point: I have my taskbar set to auto-hide; if I move down to the taskbar/Start8 from the left edge of the desktop, the taskbar doesn't pop-up on mouse-over, unlike how it acts if I'm even a few pixels to the right. Furthermore this is the exact same behavior of that corner in a stock Win8 installation, which leads me to believe Start8 is just changing the settings for that hot corner rather than disabling it entirely.

This isn't a deal-breaker since clicking in that corner still brings up Start8, but it's also not ideal as I'd like to have something close to how Windows 7 worked. Am I missing anything here, or is there no way in Start8 to completely disable that bottom left hot corner?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Like Virgedx, I too find it inconvenient that in Windows 8, even with the bottom-left side hotspot disabled, hovering my mouse pointer over the precise bottom-left hand corner of the screen will not display the taskbar if the taskbar is set to auto-hide.

In order to display the task bar, I must either click my mouse, or move it a few pixels out from the corner.

Fixing this would make Start8 perfect in my mind!

Thank you so much for your consideration! Be well!

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

So I did find a workable solution: Skip Metro Suite.

Honestly I have no idea what voodoo it does to make this happen, but it seems to do the trick and it doesn't conflict with Start8.

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