How to Stop your Windows 8 Metro Apps from Switching by Themselves?

Posted on Mar 8 2013 - 10:57am by maddy acca

Switching the apps can offer you rapidly to switch between the Metro apps by the help of just sliding the fingers on the left of the screen. Navigating the mouse can also help you to do this. If one feels annoying of this, simply turn it off.

Metro screen side bar menu Tutorial to Disable Application Switching in Windows 8

Hit a combination of Win Key + I, to call up the Sidebar, once it appear move to the “More PC settings”.

More Pc settingsWhen the “Metro Control Panel” appears, move to the General Section.

General menu for metro Control PanelOn the right side of the screen, a noticeable thing is that you will see the App switching is enabled by default or on its own.

app switching By clicking on the Slider, you can disable it.

app switching

After doing this, you can’t access to the recently visited apps which can be done previously from the left side of the screen.

So that’s all you need to follow. From this discussion you will get to know how you will check your recent apps activities, and for some techno geeks who feel this as annoying, can disable it.

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