Mouse click to invoke Metro UI

Mouse click to invoke Metro UI If you have a mouse with programmable buttons: The Windows Key is 'ctrl-esc' I have a Logitech mouse with programmable buttons. In the Logitech button settings you can program any button to go to the Metro UI: 1.) Go to your mouse settings; 2.) Choose a button; 3.) Select 'Keystroke Assignment; 4.) in the resulting 'Specify Keystroke' - Keystroke window: 5.) Simultaneously press Ctrl and Esc. 6.) Note: In the Logitech example, you cannot use your keyboard key-by-key to enter ctrl+esc. You must simultaneously press the control and escape key in the above window. [Hold down ctrl and esc] Worked for me. Explanation: I was frustrated that W8 dumped me into the old W7 desktop when I exited an application -- even if I started the application in Metro UI. Then I had to go back to keyboard to press Windows key. Now I have a mouse button to get me back to Metro UI. Editorial comment - DWJ: I think W8 should default to the Metro UI upon exit from any application. After many months of objecting to W8, I now like it -- but I do not like the extra key press on the Windows Key [on the keyboard] to get me back to Metro UI -- where I started. If Microsoft wants me to use the Metro UI, then Microsoft should dump me into the Metro UI whenever I exit any app.

Horses for Courses

davidwjohnson said:

Editorial comment - DWJ: I think W8 should default to the Metro UI upon exit from any application. After many months of objecting to W8, I now like it -- but I do not like the extra key press on the Windows Key [on the keyboard] to get me back to Metro UI -- where I started. If Microsoft wants me to use the Metro UI, then Microsoft should dump me into the Metro UI whenever I exit any app.

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"Horses for Courses."
I don't like Metro and I don't like having to swap from it to the Desktop.

This highlights the problem that a lot of people are complaining about, no control over the GUI.

If MS weren't being a "bunch of jerks", they would have included a setting to control the GUI:

• Always show Metro
• "I'm feeling lucky"
• Always show the Desktop

One simple setting would satisfy the "Metro lovers" and the "Desktop lovers", but MS "knows better" than the users.

This highlights the problem that a lot of people are complaining about, no control over the GUI.

If MS weren't being a "bunch of jerks", they would have included a setting to control the GUI:

• Always show Metro
• "I'm feeling lucky"
• Always show the Desktop

One simple setting would satisfy the "Metro lovers" and the "Desktop lovers", but MS "knows better" than the users.

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It would be nice to have the option to select the screen to start up with... Metro or Desktop.. but no such luck. I hope we get that one day but I'm not going to hold my breath over it.


The way I look at it is like this.. I just have to "suck it up and deal with it". Do I like that option.. no but I've been told that so many times I'm used to it.