Ribbon Disabler for Windows 8

Software: Sergey @ Wednesday 2013 February 20 - 21:25:44

Yet another tool that i have created for Windows 8. Its Ribbon Disabler for Windows 8.

Latest version is 2.5, a critical bug is fixed. Please update ASAP. See the change log below, I'll share the details

Ribbon Disabler is compatible with Windows 8 from Consumer Preview up to Windows 8 RTM.
Ribbon Disabler will allow you to disable Ribbon in Windows 8 Explorer and preserve Paint and Wordpad working. Aslo it has an option to restore ribbon.
There is no system files what will be modified by this tool.Since version 2 the Ribbon Disabler modifies your explorerframe.dll but makes backup. It is safe.
Here is example of Explorer without Ribbon:

Change log

Please always use only latest version.
v2.5
Fixed critical issue in the code. Every time you remove/restore ribbon in Explorer it causes wrong NTFS permissions to be set for some system files. It can cause other user accounts to be unable to work in Windows 8. This is fixed.
v2.0.0.1
Command line options are implemented so you can use Ribbon Disabler in your scripts.
v2.0
A new code base, with support for Windows 8 x86 and x64.
v1.0
first release with Windows 8 x64 support only

Ribbon Disabler command line options

Ribbon disabler.exe /d - delete the ribbon silently
Ribbon disabler.exe /r - restore the ribbon silently

For Windows 8 x64:
Ribbon disabler x64.exe /d - delete the ribbon silently
Ribbon disabler x64.exe /r - restore the ribbon silently

Ribbon Disabler is portable application and does not require to be installed.

Download Ribbon Disabler v2

Sergey Tkachenko

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Comments

Anonymous\|15 Mar
Guest	Nice piece of software

Anonymous\|27 Apr
Guest	Windows 8 sucks ass

Sergey \|27 Apr
Comments: 369	haha

Anonymous\|17 Jul
Guest	Thanks, Happy Bulldozer.

Anonymous\|18 Aug
Guest	thx man this is nice

Anonymous\|09 Oct
Guest	Thank you

mirecek1965\|03 Nov
Guest	Thanks, but i dont use explorer.

Sergey \|04 Nov
Comments: 369	I am too

Pharaoh|06 Nov

Guest

FYI if you activate this as an Administrator and add an additional user to Windows 8, it will not execute after creating the account. So if you deactivate this, then the new account loads just fine. And then again - if you reactivate afterward, it disables the 2nd user account. I tried making the 2nd user an Administrator as well and turning of UAC all together and it still doesn't work. Can you fix this?

Sergey \|06 Nov
Comments: 369	i will look into the problem

it fails\|17 Nov
Guest	a windows message came up that says that there was something worng with CLR203r / System.Drawing :(

me again\|17 Nov
Guest	in the last comment I said, that it fails. But it was my fault. I started it from network. If I start it locally, then it runs and does it well - thanks a lot ))

Alex\|22 Nov
Guest	I don't get you people. Why abandon Win7, install Win8 and then disable ribbon, get classic startmenu, disable startscreen... gives me LOL.

Sergey \|23 Nov
Comments: 369	I just go with the flow

quciks\|01 Dec
Guest	The Ribbon is helpful. No more going into folder options or anywhere else. I dont know why anyone would want to disable it.

Sergey \|01 Dec
Comments: 369	Look at the downloads counter. Not everyone agree with you

gash\|12 Dec
Guest	hi. how you got tranparency (aero glass) back to win8??? i miss aero glass soooo bad in win8 :(

Sergey \|12 Dec
Comments: 369	I agree, but it is hard to get it working.

gash\|12 Dec
Guest	could you explain it to me? i will try it ^^ is it possible for win8-rtm? k.r. (btw. sry for my poor english ^^" )

Sergey \|12 Dec
Comments: 369	It is not possible without damage for Windows. Don't even try.

ribbonhater|26 Dec

Guest

I would like to have no ribbon and no command bar at all in the explorer. So maybe you could build in an option to your program that you can choose between just removing ribbon and replacing ribbon with command bar.
I have absolutely no use for both of them, shortcuts do everything for me i need. I hated the command bar in 7 and hate ribbon in 8, so I would be stuck between a rock and a hard place.

George\|11 May
Guest	The themeee, we want that theme in the screenshots, omfg

George\|11 May
Guest	ah, in the pictures is windows 8 release preview or RTM? It is possible to make the navigation bar background transparent using DWMGlass by BigMuscle?