I've got a Java swing program that runs in full screen mode. It's effectively a kiosk program in that I want it to lock out everything else while it's running. This is running on a Windows 8.1 tablet, so of course the tablet is touchscreen, and therefore if you do an "edge swipe" (drag your finger from the right) the charms bar pops up and you can get to the Start screen from there. Is there some way to disable this from happening in Java? (Or is there some third-party solution not involving Java that can work in tandem to achieve the same result?)
What I ended up doing was to write a batch script that kills explorer.exe and then re-spawns it after the app exits, based on this answer on Super User.