How to: Get rid of Windows 8 Metro UI

Now since the Windows 8 Release Preview is online for you to try it out, most of you will be delighted with the welcoming user interface of the built-in Metro UI. Metro UI designed basically keeping a touch screen device in mind and some times its irritating on your conventional device., it tends to get frustrating after a bit, because you are so used to the old–styled desktop interface from Windows 95, all the way until Windows 7. 

We can disable the metro UI whenever we want by just tweaking on your windows 8 and we can get the windows 7 UI.

In order to get rid of the Metro UI, you will need a utility, called ‘Windows Eight Metro UI Switcher’, which can be downloaded from SuperUtils.com. This tiny utility allows you to disable the Start Screen of Windows 8 and get back to your old-school Windows 7 styled Start menu. It also helps getting back the classic Task Manager that displays the processor utilization.

For those who do not want to use the utility and do it manually, you can do it using two other methods. The first method is by tweaking a single registry key. Start the registry editor and scroll down to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer’. On the right side, you will find the string ‘RPEnabled’ and change it from the value ‘1’ to ‘0’. Close the registry editor and restart the PC. To enable it again, simply revert back the value to ‘1’.