Win10 system custom start menu background and icon graphic tutorial

  
Today, we will share with you the win10 system custom start menu and icon tutorial, this is a very complicated operation steps, so Xiaobian specially organized detailed steps and screenshots of some important operations, I hope I can help Everyone!

Open the location of the file
Win10 custom start menu method:
Here is the soft media cube as an example.
1, first fix the program in the start screen;
2, right click on the soft media cube tile & mdash; more & mdash; open the file location:
3, in the open start menu directory Find the Rubik's Cube shortcut, right click on — open the location of the file, as shown below:

Open the file location
In the open directory you can see the Rubik's main program file named pcmaster .exe.
4, create a new text document on the desktop, rename it to pcmaster.VisualElementsManifest.xml
Note: to remove the text file default .txt suffix
open pcmaster.VisualElementsManifest.xml with Notepad, the following The code is copied to the document and saved.
"?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8”?"
"Application xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” 》
"VisualElements
ForegroundText=“light”
BackgroundColor=“#49825a”
ShowNameOnSquare150x150Logo=“on”
》//VisualElements
/Application< Br>5, copy the prepared pcmaster.VisualElementsManifest.xml to the pcmaster.exe file directory.
6, to the most critical steps. In the position shown in the third step (Rugby shortcut), open a command prompt. To do this: Click on File — open a command prompt — open a command prompt as an administrator.

Enter the following command to enter:
for %f in (*.*) do copy /b “%f” +,,

Admin
This The purpose of the step is to clean up the tile cache, you can try a few more times, or unpin the tile and re-fix it to the start screen. The effect is shown below, you will find that the background color of the tile has changed.

Software Rubik's Cube
It is necessary to explain some of the above code here:
ForegroundText indicates the color of the tile title, there are two kinds: light for white, dark for gray;
BackgroundColor represents the background color, here is the hexadecimal representation of the RGB color value;
ShowNameOnSquare150x150Logo represents whether to display the tile name;
If you want to modify the tile icon, you can add the following two attributes: Br>Square150x150Logo
Square70x70Logo
The above two properties represent icons in medium and small size states, and the attribute values ​​use the relative path of the icon file.
For example, in the same directory as pcmaster.exe, create a folder named image, and put your own icon file into the folder. As shown below, here is an icon with the format png, the full name is tweakcube.png.

pcmaster.exe
If the size of the homemade icon is larger than the tile size, it will eventually overwrite the background color. Finally, attach the complete code of pcmaster.VisualElementsManifest.xml:"?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8”?"
"Application xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”"
"VisualElements
ForegroundText=“light”
BackgroundColor=“#49825a”
ShowNameOnSquare150x150Logo=“on”
Square150x150Logo =“imagetweakcube.png”
Square70x70Logo=“imagetweakcube.png”
"//VisualElements"
"/Application"
After modification, perform the sixth step to clear the cache (or re-fix The magnetic paste), the final result can be obtained as follows:

Software Rubik's cube
The above is Win10 start menu background and icon method, through this method we can modify the background color of the start menu, replace the start menu tile Icons and more.

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