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  • [Win 8.1] Getting rid of the sidebar

    From Volker N. Englisch@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 1 15:22:50 2018
    When moving the mouse pointer, sometimes those sidebars appear, as well
    as a big window showing date and time. A screenshop is available at

    http://sites.inka.de/~rsli/zbv/Win81.jpg

    (150 kB). Google tells a lot of means to get rid of that sidebar, but unfortunately none of these tips were able to let that sidebar disappear forever.

    Any hint on how to stop that (in my opinion) bad behaviour of Win 8.1?
    Without moving to Win 10. :-)

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  • From B00ze@21:1/5 to Volker N. Englisch on Tue May 1 22:58:57 2018
    On 2018-05-01 09:22, Volker N. Englisch <[email protected]> wrote:

    When moving the mouse pointer, sometimes those sidebars appear, as well
    as a big window showing date and time. A screenshop is available at

    http://sites.inka.de/~rsli/zbv/Win81.jpg

    (150 kB). Google tells a lot of means to get rid of that sidebar, but unfortunately none of these tips were able to let that sidebar disappear forever.

    Any hint on how to stop that (in my opinion) bad behaviour of Win 8.1? Without moving to Win 10. :-)

    It *is* annoying right? Unfortunately, there are a couple things you can
    ONLY do from the Sidebar, like managing your known wireless networks. I
    have not attempted to disable it, I'm not sure it's possible...

    Regards,

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  • From Volker Englisch@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 3 16:54:20 2018
    B00ze wrote:
    On 2018-05-01 09:22, Volker N. Englisch <[email protected]> wrote:

    When moving the mouse pointer, sometimes those sidebars appear, as well
    as a big window showing date and time. A screenshop is available at

    http://sites.inka.de/~rsli/zbv/Win81.jpg

    (150 kB). Google tells a lot of means to get rid of that sidebar, but
    unfortunately none of these tips were able to let that sidebar disappear
    forever.

    Any hint on how to stop that (in my opinion) bad behaviour of Win 8.1?
    Without moving to Win 10. :-)

    It *is* annoying right? Unfortunately, there are a couple things you can
    ONLY do from the Sidebar, like managing your known wireless networks. I
    have not attempted to disable it, I'm not sure it's possible...

    Yes, I think it's very annoying. When I have to manage my known WiFi
    networks, I just enter the system control panel. Is there really any
    task that can /only/ be done from the sidebar?

    I still want to get rid of it :-)

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  • From B00ze@21:1/5 to Volker Englisch on Fri May 4 01:26:57 2018
    On 2018-05-03 12:54, [email protected] (Volker Englisch) wrote:

    B00ze wrote:
    On 2018-05-01 09:22, Volker N. Englisch <[email protected]> wrote:

    When moving the mouse pointer, sometimes those sidebars appear, as well
    as a big window showing date and time. A screenshop is available at

    http://sites.inka.de/~rsli/zbv/Win81.jpg

    (150 kB). Google tells a lot of means to get rid of that sidebar, but
    unfortunately none of these tips were able to let that sidebar disappear >>> forever.

    Any hint on how to stop that (in my opinion) bad behaviour of Win 8.1?
    Without moving to Win 10. :-)

    It *is* annoying right? Unfortunately, there are a couple things you can
    ONLY do from the Sidebar, like managing your known wireless networks. I
    have not attempted to disable it, I'm not sure it's possible...

    Yes, I think it's very annoying. When I have to manage my known WiFi networks, I just enter the system control panel. Is there really any
    task that can /only/ be done from the sidebar?

    Lol, I thought that the only way to get there was the sidebar. I'm
    pretty sure I tried the control panel first and could not get there. But
    it was at work, so time was limited, I might've missed something.

    I still want to get rid of it :-)

    Indeed, my work laptop has some issue where that sidebar pops-up
    constantly when I use the mousepad, it's really annoying. But I'm due
    for a re-image to Win10 anyway, so I haven't spent time looking for a
    way to disable it...

    Regards,

    --
    ! _\|/_ Sylvain / [email protected]
    ! (o o) Member:David-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society
    oO-( )-Oo Don't let Kirk show you what he calls The Captain's Log.

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