How to prevent charms menu bar to open accidentally ?

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If you are using Windows8 then you might already know about “Charms Menu Bar”, It appears on the right side of your screen whenever you take your cursor to the right bottom or right top corner of your screen. It helps you to quickly access PC Settings and access windows search feature however but at times it meddles and will be annoying.

There is one simple registry trick which will help to solve this problem.

1. Open Registry Editor by typing “regedit” in the run box.

runbox regedit

2. Go to the following key HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionImmersiveShell

3. Create a key with name EdgeUI by right clicking on the ImmersiveShell

regedit

4. After you creating the key it looks like below

regedit key

5. Create a DWORD 32 bit  key with name DisableCharmsHint.

regedit dword

6. Now set the value for the created DWORD value as “1”.

regedit dword value

That’s all , you can see changes immediately taken place and Charms bar won’t be that annoying as it was previously.

If you feel that this is quite lot of information for you , you can just download the registry keys I have made from here  and just run Disable key.

Hope you enjoyed reading this article.

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