I like metro, but I hate Metro

from Stardock Forums

At first I really hated windows 8 and still have pains with it, however I did like Metro to a point the worse part of Metro was the organization though which totally doomed it. I liked that it went on and on without a glitch you could have a million programs and it went on and on and on, But that was also the worse part of metro. I wish stardock had a program that allowed metro in both 8 and 10 that would allow folders which would upon opening have the same metro look and feel just different programs. the we could organize metro I have yet to see this utility out there and would really pay for that.

 

10,366 views 6 replies
Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

they have one its called Start10.

Tipp:
Also you are able to bring the fullscreen Metro windows8.x interface back in Windows10 

How:
Klick Start - Settings - Personalize - Start 
there is a slider to activate start in Fullscreen.
activate it.

When you open it in fullscreen , you will find two buttons on the bottom left side of it one is for shutdown that other one is the list where you find your stuff organized alphabetically

About the folders opening in a metro like look, i will have to ask do you want the file explorer to have the same looks as the Metro interface (fullscreen)?


Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

On 8.1 the 'so called' metro thingy or 8's start menu is a short cut in my 'real' start menu. Sometimes it pops up out of nowhere but I banish it by hitting the windows key.

BTW: So does that damn charms bar...still!

CursorFX - Customize your Windows cursor
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Uvah do you have start8 installed?
If so there should be an option to disable both under the settings as far as i remember. 

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yup, start 8 is installed and configured to kill the charms bar. Only its stubborn...I think.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I would like it if in the metro was exactly like the file explorer. So if your in metro and you could make a tile for a folder say games and when you clicked on that tile it opened another metro with tiles for your games not icons but a full fledged metro and you could further make another tile for another folder and open that to have a metro with all the tiles for first person games etc.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

it would be a nice from a visual aspect but i doubt that it would have any practical use since the UI was made to give you quick access to your progs.
following a concept of avoiding unnecessary clicking like in windows7 startmenu.
You can however sort your apps and name a category and drop them into these, that way all of your game shortcuts or apps will be listed on one category inside the metro UI, but you would have other apps still listed on that same page.

Quoting Uvah, reply 4

Yup, start 8 is installed and configured to kill the charms bar. Only its stubborn...I think.
End of Uvah's quote

If its subborn and wont work its probably best to remove it, clean reg entrys with the reg cleaning tool from stardock, restart and redownload and install once more?
At least in most cases that worked for me when i still were on Win8.x