Window 8.1 Update with a Handful of Desktop Friendly Tweaks

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As suggested by Russian leaker Wzor that Microsoft is planning a few desktop friendly changes with an upcoming update to Windows 8.1 by last week.

Window 8.1 Update with a Handful of Desktop Friendly Tweaks

 But the most obvious change is a small title bar for Microsoft’s Windows 8-style apps with options to close, minimize, and snap apps side-by-side using the mouse as mentioned in the report of The Verge.

Moreover, the Start screen also sees a few minor yet welcome improvements and other changes include a control panel link into the PC settings section, and the option to show Windows Store apps alongside desktop apps in the task bar i.e , you can launch Metro apps like you would any other app without going to the Metro UI first.

Among these all things, there are new context menus with options to resize, unpin, and more when right-clicking on Live Tiles, while search and shutdown buttons have been added right onto the Start screen to let users more easily find those options.

However, there is no any description whether boot to desktop is now activated by default instead of being opt-in, as it’s been since the release of Windows 8.1 in January. This has been rumored in recent days and would be an interesting reversal for Microsoft. In the same vein, Microsoft is reportedly considering bringing back the full start menu in future updates, along with the ability to run Metro apps in windows on the desktop.


The more interesting thing is noted by Verge that if you activate a Metro app from the desktop then the task bar remains on top of the app until you starts interacting with it while It’s not clear if this is by design or a bug since you can’t activate the task bar after launching a Metro app.

You can watch forward to Windows 8.1 Update 1 arriving on March 11th, according to rumors. 

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