How to disable top drag to close an app

[Jorge]

Hello,
I have been looking for over a day and trying applications to only disable the top drag to close an app in Windows 8.1
Everything I've found is regrading left-rigth sides and corners, but I can't find anything that disable this option.
Do you know any way to disable that?
Thanks

 

[Donald King]

I have not seen a way to do this. As far as I know it is a function of the OS. Out of curiosity - why do you want to disable it?

 

[Jorge]

Thanks, I'll try to research or find other ways.
So the idea is to have the surface as in Kiosk mode but with a custom .NET application..shame this is not built-on.

 

[Jorge]

what I'm testing now is a schedule task to kill explorer process.
Not the nicer solution but might work for me.

 

[jnjroach]

KIOSK Mode is built into Windows 8.x/RT, if your App was WinRT it would be very easy to accomplish what you're wanting to do...

 

[GreyFox7]

KIOSK Mode is built into Windows 8.x/RT, if your App was WinRT it would be very easy to accomplish what you're wanting to do...

I'm not [edit] sure I understand what you meant.
Kiosk mode is built into both Win8x and Win RT 8x?
If the app is a MUI app Kiosk mode would take care of it?
Is Kiosk mode the same or different than locking the user to running one app?

 

[Jorge]

Yes Kiosk mode lock the surface to only one user and one app per PC, no charms bar, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, etc
http://www.howtogeek.com/173562/how-to-easily-put-a-windows-pc-into-kiosk-mode-with-assigned-access/

 

[GreyFox7]

On a related note but off topic: I really hate swiping top to bottom on the larger SP3 screen to close an App. It would be fantastic if they added the X to a swipe from top edge like you get with the mouse on top edge.

 

[GreyFox7]

Yes Kiosk mode lock the surface to only one user and one app per PC, no charms bar, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, etc
http://www.howtogeek.com/173562/how-to-easily-put-a-windows-pc-into-kiosk-mode-with-assigned-access/

So all well and good but doesn't work with your app, no?

Have your looked into swipe events and manipulation? Perhaps in full screen mode this would get you an intercept of the Top swipe event which you would gleefully ignore

 

[Jorge]

I'm pretty confident that I've checked all possible configurations within Windows, and some other third party apps.
I still think only option for me will be to kill explorer.exe process..

 

[GreyFox7]

I'm pretty confident that I've checked all possible configurations within Windows, and some other third party apps.
I still think only option for me will be to kill explorer.exe process..

IMO all that will accomplish is extremely poor performance or total un-usability.

Event trapping is not a configuration it's programmatically handling user inputs like EdgeGesture . IDK maybe this can only be done with MUI apps (Store Apps) in which case you have your answer.
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/edge-gesture-invocation-76a474dd

 

[Jorge]

Yes, doesn't sound good killing explorer process.
However like touch screen and Lync calls work fine I'll keep going with this solution from now, thanks!