How to disable task bars appearing at top and bottom of the W10 client.

  • Tired of the task bars in Windows 10 appearing at the top and bottom of your Sea Of Thieves client whenever you're in your inventory or, for any other reason, bring out the cursor in-game?

    This is (as far as I'm aware) due to an embedded feature in all Windows 10 applications installed through the Microsoft Store, which keeps them from ever going into a true fullscreen mode. I will include screenshot for visual aid.

    This fix worked for me, hopefully it will for you too;

    Step 1.

    Visual demonstration;
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbDbCw6WoAAWMND?format=png&name=small

    Hit the Windows key + R, type in 'regedit' and press enter. Then navigate to the following regedit directory;
    Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EdgeUI

    Step 2.

    Visual demonstration;
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbDbqJxXYAkTGt0?format=png&name=900x900*

    It is very likely that you do NOT already have a folder here called 'EdgeUI'.
    If you do not, simply create it by right clicking on the right side of the explorer window, go to 'New' and then 'Key'. Name this new key you create 'EdgeUI'.

    Step 3.

    Visual demonstration;
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbDb8nOWkAEqgtr?format=png&name=small

    Next, inside of the 'EdgeUI' folder you just found/created, right click again and create a 'DWORD (32-bit) Value'. Name it 'AllowEdgeSwipe', as marked at the top of the picture.

    Step 4.

    Visual demonstration;
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbDcTaSXsAEOdcx?format=png&name=360x360

    Right click the DWORD named 'AllowEdgeSwipe' you just created and press 'Modify...'. Make sure it says '0' under 'Value data:' and press 'OK'.

    Step 5.

    Reboot your PC and launch Sea Of Thieves. Open your inventory, drag the cursor to the top/bottom of your game client and enjoy not getting any task bars.

    I hope this helps you, it has been working flawlessly for me for weeks now.
    Please reply if the guide is somehow unclear or if you have feedback!

    Happy sailing.

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  • Thank you so much for this

  • @wizzwizard Glad to have been able to help!

  • This is brilliant, I was literally looking for a fix for this just yesterday.

    I'll give it a try today, thanks!

  • @headsh0t-cj I was searching for a fix for this for a very long time too, until I realized it wasn't just the game, but an actual setting for applications in Windows 10. Hope it helps!

  • @wadaya-meane Thanks, will try later.

  • Thanks for figuring this out. It's a stupid feature for UWP games. I did a bit of digging, and if you're not confortable playing with the registry editor you can apparently also change this setting with the Local Group Policy Editor:

  • @d3adst1ck Oh, thanks for sharing that!

  • I went ahead and tried this out, I'll come back and edit my post with the results... Hopefully this ends up being a long term fix.

    Thanks a lot for this, if this works I'm not too bothered about not having the Steam version, this bug has always been consistently annoying.

    Edit: Definitely seems to work, I haven't had any issues with the task bar at all! Thanks a lot for this fix!

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