How to remove the sidebar from Windows 8.1

All the ones you have used Windows 8 o Windows 8.1 You will know the bar that appears on the right when we bring the cursor closer to the upper or lower corner of this same side. From here we access several interesting options related to our system, but at the same time, some users do not like having the Charms Bar (which is what it is called), since every now and then it appears without that being our intention. To avoid this hassle, today we will explain how remove sidebar from Windows 8.1 With what will no longer appear and we will be able to move the cursor freely without worrying.

How to remove the sidebar from Windows 8.1

But will I access all the information?

What we will achieve by activating the option is increase desktop size and therefore have a cleaner appearance without having to give up anything.

Do not worry in this sense, since what we are going to do is disable option for the appearance Charms Bar when we bring the cursor to the upper right corner, keeping the action activated for the lower right corner.

That is, we can continue accessing by placing the cursor at the bottom, but it no longer bothers us when, for example, we want to close a program by clicking on the cross.

How can I remove the Charms Bar

The first thing we are going to do is access the taskbar properties, clicking on it with the right button.

We enter the tab “Navigation” and select the “By pointing to the upper right corner, show the charms".

We accept the changes and we can now verify that by placing the cursor in said corner, the bar does not appear. If we want to activate this option again, we check the box again and we will use the default configuration.

Permanently remove the sidebar from Windows 8.1

However, we can also completely eliminate the bar Windows 8.1 side, that is, it does not appear even when we go to the lower right corner of the screen.

To do this, we enter the Windows registry by writing “regedit” without quotes in the search engine. We enter HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell and right-click on an empty part of the window on the right.

In the context menu we put the cursor on “New” and then click on “Clave”. We use “edgeUI” as a name (without the quotes) and we enter this new folder. We click again with the right button on the right window and enter “New", but this time we click on "DWORD value (32-bit)” and we use the name “DisableCharmsHint” (also without quotes).

We enter this new value and enter the value “1” and we have nothing left but to accept.

How to access the Windows 8.1 bar

In the event that we opt for the first solution, we have already commented that the only thing we will have to do to access the bar is through the lower right corner, but in the case of the second, what we will have to do is Press the Windows + C key combination.

As we can see, we have two fantastic systems that will help us configure the Windows 8.1 sidebar.