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General discussion

App question

Nov 3, 2014 6:50AM PST

Is there a way to stop my apps from opening full screen? The apps take over the entire monitor even blocking the task bar on the bottom. In Windows7 you could simply drag a bottom corner and make the window the size and shape you wanted.

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Metro Apps do that by design.
Nov 3, 2014 7:17AM PST

Later in 8.1 they relaxed it a little but not much. Tell more which app.
Bob

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Windows 10 will allow
Nov 4, 2014 1:12AM PST

al apps desktop and Metro to run in sizeable windows.

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The ability to load Metro apps
Nov 6, 2014 11:08PM PST

in sizeable windows is coming in Windows 10. There may be a 3rd party utility but I not aware of one but try googling something like 3rd party tool to run metro app in a window.