Freeware Listing: Metro Disabler
- Windows 8 Start Menu Switcher
- License: Freeware

Switch easily between Windows 8 old Start Menu and Windows Metro Style start screen. This tool hides in system tray (notification area). Just click any of the icons representing the old Windows Start Menu (orb) or Windows Metro Style to modify windows registry. Then click Restart Explorer you'll see the changes. This will change to the old windows start menu (orb) in Windows 8, but it will also disable Explorer with ribbon and taskmanager. And if you want to keep Ribbon Explorer and the New TaskManager, use the button which requires admin privileges instead of the icons. All changes are reversible.
- Publisher: Victor Alberto Gil
- Date: 27-10-2012
- Size: 492 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Win 8 Start Menu Changer
- License: Shareware

Win 8 Start Menu Changer is a simple but handy application for the new operating system Windows 8, which lets you change the default appearance of the Start Menu to the one on Windows 7.
In addition you can also enable or disable the Metro Ribbon UI, File Explorer and other functions.
Windows 8 Developer Preview is available for download via this page.
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- Publisher: Havy Alegria
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Free Windows Metro Icons
- License: Freeware

Free Windows Metro Icons is a pack of over 130 royalty-free icons for Windows systems. Produced to match and exceed the design guidelines for Microsoft Windows systems, this collection of application bar icons includes 48x48 pixels images with a transparent background and an actual drawing located in a central square of 26x26 pixels. All the images are supplied in the PNG format. Design perfect apps for Windows today! Metro is coming as a new user interface concept for Windows systems. Are your applications ready for Metro experience? Free Windows Metro Icons offer over 130 unique images designed meeting the new UI guidelines imposed by Windows systems.
- Publisher: Icons for Windows 8
- Date: 02-07-2012
- Size: 23182 KB
- Platform: Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Win Eight Metro UI Switcher Portable
- License: Freeware

The first thing you meet when beginning to explore Microsoft Windows 8, is the new immersive interface (called Metro UI). And there is a new screen that pops out every time you press the old good Start button, instead of the Start menu. This small free utility lets you to disable the Start screen of Windows Eight and to return the Windows 7 styled Start menu. The tweaker also gives back the classic Task Manager that can show CPU utilization history per processor/core. Do note that when the Metro UI is disabled, Windows Explorer has the revamped Ribbon interface turned off. And you can enable Windows 8's immersive UI again, if you want to.
- Publisher: SuperUtils.com Software
- Date: 25-10-2012
- Size: 707 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Win Eight Metro UI Switcher
- License: Freeware

The first thing you meet when beginning to explore Microsoft Windows 8, is the new immersive interface (called Metro UI). And there is a new screen that pops out every time you press the old good Start button, instead of the Start menu. This small free utility lets you to disable the Start screen of Windows Eight and to return the Windows 7 styled Start menu. The tweaker also gives back the classic Task Manager that can show CPU utilization history per processor/core. Do note that when the Metro UI is disabled, Windows Explorer has the revamped Ribbon interface turned off. And you can enable Windows 8's immersive UI again, if you want to.
- Publisher: SuperUtils.com Software
- Date: 12-06-2012
- Size: 778 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Antum Facebook Chat Sidebar Disabler
- License: Shareware

Antum Facebook Chat Sidebar Disabler is a handy and reliable application that perfectly integrates within Internet Explorer and disables the original chat on Facebook.
Antum Facebook Chat Sidebar Disabler not only removes the chat window from your Facebook account, but also provides you with a clean interface, without being prompted each time by messages in case you have to work.
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- Publisher: Inventus Software
- Date:
- Platform: Win7 x64, Windows 7, WinOther, WinServer, WinVista
- Outlook Metro
- License: Shareware

Outlook Metro is a handy and reliable application that gathers all the features of Outlook.com in a desktop client.
With Outlook Metro, you no longer need a web browser to manager your Outlook inbox; you can achieve this directly from the comfort of your desktop.
In addition, it also features modules for managing your calendar, contacts and Skydrive storage.
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- Publisher: ActionofLost
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 7, Windows 8, WinOther, WinVista
- Metro: Last Light Theme
- License: Shareware

Metro: Last Light Theme allows you to change your desktop look with snapshots from the well-known game.
The pack includes 5 high-resolution wallpapers inspired by the game, as well as a new logon screen image.
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- Publisher: ExpoThemes
- Date:
- Platform: Win7 x64, Windows 7, Windows 8
- Free Metro Icons
- License: Shareware

Free Metro Icons is a pack of over 100 free icons for Windows Phone and Win32 systems. Produced to match and exceed the design guidelines for MS Windows systems, this set of application bar icons includes 48x48 pixels pictograms with a transparent background and an actual drawing located in a central square of 26x26 pixels. All the images are supplied in the PNG format. Design modern apps for Windows Phone today!
Metro is coming as a new user interface concept for Windows Phone and Windows 8 systems. Are your applications ready for Metro experience? Free Metro Icons offer over 100 unique images designed meeting the new UI guidelines imposed by Windows systems.
- Publisher: Windows 8 Icons Org
- Date:
- Size: 22579 KB
- Platform: Probably All
- S-Disabler
- License: Shareware

S-Disabler is small utility designed to help you easily deactivate the screensaver, monitor extinction and prevent the computer to sleep.
S-Disabler can also turn off and on the Aero interface. Disabling Aero frees some system resources for big operation such as video creation or games.
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- Publisher: Springs01
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 7, WinOther, WinVista
- Metro Event To Command
- License: Shareware

Metro Event To Command will provide users with an ideal solution for the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern that helps them bind viewmodel commands to view controls events.
Moreover, Metro Event To Command will have no problem in working with command classese deriving from ICommand, such as MVVMLight RelayCommand and RelayCommand.
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- Publisher: Olivier Matis
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
- Metro WPF
- License: Shareware

Metro WPF is a handy and reliable collection of styles and controls designed to assist developers in building Metro style WPF apps.
Controls include radio buttons, sliders, text boxes, expanders, check boxes, tooltips and so on. Also, two themes are comprised: dark and light.
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- Publisher: Henry Zhu
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 7, WinOther, WinVista
- Metro Character Progress Control
- License: Shareware

Metro Character Progress Control is a handy and reliable programming class that can be used in the development of progress controls.
Metro Character Progress Control can be used in the development of projects for Windows 8, Silverlight, Windows Phone and WPF.
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- Publisher: Diptimaya Patra
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 7, WinOther, WinVista
- LinqConnect for Metro
- License: Shareware

LinqConnect for Metro is a feature-packed ORM solution, which enables developers to create Windows Store applications that come with true ORM support for database access.
In addition, LinqConnect for Metro can be used to provide programmers with ADO.NET interfaces for managing data (this was not available for Windows Metro until now).
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- Publisher: Devart
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Visifire for Windows 8 Metro
- License: Shareware

Visifire for Windows 8 Metro provides developers with a collection of data visualization components that can be used for designing Metro styled XAML applications.
These controls seamlessly integrate within the design principles of the Metro interface and they blend in with other Windows 8 apps.
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- Publisher: Webyog Softworks
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Bing Maps SDK for Metro style apps
- License: Shareware

Bing Maps SDK bring together the strong-points of Windows 8 and Bing Maps to offer users an optimized mapping experience for developing their Metro style apps.
Developers can use this Bing Maps control to incorporate the latest road maps, aerial views, and low-angle high-resolution images into a Windows 8 Metro style app.
This SDK includes controls for apps built using JavaScript, as well as apps built using C#, C++, and Visual Basic, and requires a Bing Maps Key for Metro style apps (Beta).
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- Publisher: Microsoft
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Calculator Metro Style for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

Calculator Metro Style is a simple and easy to use app designed to help you perform calculations on your Windows 8 device. It features a colorful interface that is optimized for touch displays.
If you only need to perform basic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, this app can help.
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- Publisher: Wortell
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Antum Facebook Advert Disabler
- License: Shareware

Antum Facebook Advert Disabler is a simple and easy-to-use utility that perfectly integrates within Internet Explorer and removes all the advertisement pop-ups from your Facebook account.
This way, each time you will login into your Facebook account, you will get a clear window and easily view all your friends' notifications.
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- Publisher: Inventus Software
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 7, Windows 8, WinOther, WinVista
- New Profile Disabler for Chrome
- License: Shareware

New Profile Disabler for Chrome is a useful extension that allows you to change the default aspect of the Profile page on the Facebook website. If you do not like the new Timeline and wish to return to the older style, you can use this extension.
The extension allows you to disable the new profile on the Fan Pages and the User Profile pages.
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- Publisher: vittgam.net
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
- New Profile Disabler for Opera
- License: Shareware

New Profile Disabler for Opera is an extension that allows you to disable the newly introduced Facebook profiles, such as Timeline.
By installing this extension, you can return to the old-fashioned Facebook style. Moreover, it does not affect your Facebook page layout.
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- Publisher: vittgam.net
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
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