Microsoft blocks certain “tricks” used in Windows 8

Microsoft intends to stake everything on the new interface ” tiled “to Windows 8 what is now known. It, in projects of Redmond, will serve as a bridge between the worlds of desktop and notebook systems of traditional and new multi-touch screen devices. Until a few days ago known by the codename of “Metro”, the interface of Windows 8 – which remains attached to the classic desktop – ensure the technicians of Microsoft, will be compatible with all the different screen resolutions and, therefore, support device characterized by form factors very different from each other.


Will Microsoft make the new GUI ( not just name it as “Metro” … ) star of the “stage”, is confirmed by a speech that the company has recently applied. The well-known hacker Rafael Rivera said: ” Microsoft has implemented some changes to Windows 8 to make the trick. scf stop functioning properly . ” Rivera refers to the expedient which had been discovered some months ago that allowed you to configure the desktop Windows Classic 8 as the default GUI. To access, to boot, instead of the traditional desktop to the new interface “tiles”, was enough to create a file with extension. Scf, include some information and run them automatically when the personal computer.

The trick, however, does not work anymore and from now on, therefore, unless some new, Windows 8 starts always the new interface. Microsoft, simultaneously, has also decided to block the use of those changes that allowed the restoration of the Start button in the taskbar (see also Article 8 will be part of the Windows “Start”? ). Rivera confirmed that Microsoft has introduced the various “blocks” on the issue of RTM (” release to manufacturing “), delivered to personal computer manufacturers last week