To remove something from the Modern UI apps menu, first search for it.įor our example, we’ll be removing the ‘Uninstall Dropbox’ link that turned up in our experiment. Recommended Reading: Getting Around (And About) The New Windows 8 UI Organize And Remove Metro UI Apps Here’s a way to get rid of all those unwanted files, and reorganize apps on your Modern UI. This is the same for any other program, so there could be search results of webpages or other irrelevant programs turning up as your first search result.
While we’d usually seek to launch Dropbox, as your experiment may reveal, you get ‘Uninstall Dropbox’ as the first result instead.
See the first result that appears in your search. Press the Windows Key and type ‘Dropbox’. On Windows 8, if you have Dropbox, try doing this simple test. It’s the same on Windows 8, however, something peculiar happens. Like previous Windows operating systems before Windows 8, when you press the Windows Key and start typing, you can search for programs installed on your computer and launch the program by pressing Enter.
