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Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Yes Installs a service. Should I remove WinMetro? Lifespan of installation until removal. The Charms Bar opens up as well when you move the mouse cursor to the lower right corner of the screen but not the upper.

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WinMetro adds Windows 8's start screen to earlier versions of Windows - gHacks Tech News

The tiles that populate the home screen of the app include links to your calendar and clock, photos, Internet Explorer, Bing, maps, skydrive, Facebook, Twitter, sports, news, weather, and more. Morely Dotes said on October 23, at 5: No one has commented yet.

Manually stopping the service has been seen to cause the program to stop functing properly. The advertising model in its current form is coming to an end, and we have to find other ways to continue operating this site. Here you get options to switch to the start screen, perform a search or display the settings of the WinMetro application.

Cons Very slow and laggy with no chance to customize It also installs ad ware into your browser without asking. You can't add or remove tiles or shortcuts from the interface.

Everyone else hates it. Once reported, our staff will be notified and the comment will be reviewed. Upon being installed, the software adds a Windows Service which is designed to run continuously in the background. Promote cracked software, or other illegal content. What do people think about it? Here you find tiles that link to features such as Photos, the Weather or Finance information, as well as shortcuts to apps that you use frequently on the system. Sort Date Most helpful Positive rating Negative rating.

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I only use it for search, which I really like, and for the occasional app or game that I try. The search is not instant but fast enough, provided that you have indexed the location you heta using Windows Search.

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The WinMetro home screen has the tiled look of Windows 8 and uses the same colors. Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann. It adds a background controller service that is set to automatically run. About gHacks Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann.

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If you want to switch back to your normal desktop without closing WinMetro, wnimetro can just move your mouse to the lower left-hand corner of the screen and click the icon that pops up. The installed file AutoUpdate. There is a helpful tutorial that pops up when you first install WinMetro that gives you a good overview of the features of the interface and where to find everything.

Martin Brinkmann said on October iobot, at 9: Lifespan of installation until removal. Thank you for commenting! You are a fan of the new start screen and Charms Bar that Microsoft is introducing in Windows 8 but can't switch to Windows 8 for whatever reason right now?

Sexually explicit or offensive language. Folks would actually WANT to install this and cripple their functioning winmefro. Relative to the overall usage of users who have this installed on their PCs, most are running Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 7. WinMetro shows lots of promise for a beta application, and if the developers manage to resolve the few quirks left, it could be an attractive ionit for Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 users who like to work with the start screen that Windows 8 offers.