Create a personalized Windows 8 system start screen

Most of the friends who first saw the Microsoft Windows 8 system start screen may be surprised to see that the eyes are not familiar with the traditional Windows desktop. The screen is full of colorful blocks and strips. This is Wi

​​Most of the first time I saw the Microsoft Windows 8 system start screen friends may be surprised to open their eyes — — appeared in front of everyone is not familiar with the traditional Windows desktop, all over the screen is A bunch of colorful squares and strips … … Yes, this is the Windows 8 system "start screen", and these colorful squares and strips are the protagonists of our article today —— (Tiles).

Simply put, Win8's tile is similar to the shortcuts on the previous Windows desktop. Click on different tiles to run the corresponding application, open the corresponding website or file (clip), etc., dynamic magnetic Stickers can also scroll through real-time information. Win8 system provides a lot of flexible and convenient operation methods to help users set their own personality in the way they like. Win8“Start screen”:such as whether to display updates on the tile, move the position and size of the tile, create and name the tile group Turn commonly used file websites and programs into tiles on the start screen, etc., so that you can more easily focus on the most important applications, websites, files, and so on.

live tile startup /shutdown, Reduce /Enlarge, move

In fact, Win8 the magnets so much more than a simple shortcut, for some of which contain real-time Update the application of the information, their tiles are dynamic tiles, in the state of dynamic display, we can see the real-time information in the Win8 start screen without clicking the tile to run these applications, such as scrolling display mail, Weibo, pictures, stocks, weather, news content, etc. It can be said that dynamic tiles are real-time notification windows for these applications.

We can right click on the live tile and select “Enable Live Tiles  or “ Turn off Live Tiles from the action menu at the bottom of the screen. For example, the stock, weather and other tiles in the image below enable the dynamic tile function, we can see the real-time information displayed by scrolling directly from the start screen. The news app in the lower right corner of the image below is dynamically closed. We click the right mouse button on the tile and select “ Enable Dynamic Tile from the menu below, so that we can pick up from the start screen. Go to the scrolling real-time news.

Illustration: Enable and hang and close Win8 dynamic tile

For some dynamic tiles, we can select the zoom out or zoom in button from the operation bar at the bottom of the screen, and flexibly adjust the tile to start at Win8. The area in the screen.

illustrates: provided when Win8 live tile size

For all tile, we can use the mouse or dragging a finger, free movement position, the movement position, around The tile will automatically reposition the open position. Note: For the touch screen, after holding down the tile, drag a little down and then drag and drop to another location.

shown: Win8 tile movement position

tile packet, rename, move a long time

Use of the system, the system The number of applications and files will increase, and the number of tiles on the Win8 screen will gradually increase. We can group them appropriately, and name and sort them, which makes it easier to find and use.

Create a new tile: Drag the tile to a blank area, and when the gray bar appears, release the tile to create a new tile group.

icon: Drag glue the magnets to create a new group

zoom out: click on the bottom right corner of the screen minus small button, touch screen user available The touch operation mode of two fingers close together, so that all the tiles on the Win8 start screen will be reduced.

Illustration: Zoom out all Win8 tiles

Named tile group: Right click on any tile group area, the command bar will appear at the bottom of the screen, click on the "name group" option Button, enter text to name this tile group.

illustrated: the selected tile group named

Mobile Group tile position: with a mouse drag or a finger attached to the magnetic group can be freely moved position.

icon: dragging movement tile group

shown: Group paste drag shift complete

Win8 provided with magnets Operation

Win8's tiles can be applications, programs, system tools, websites, files, folders, etc. Right click on the tile, and the action bar will appear at the bottom of the screen. For different types of tiles, there are Different corresponding settings and operations. For example, pinned to the taskbar, zoomed out/zoom in, unload, unpin from the start screen, open a new window, open a file location, run as an administrator, and more. You can choose according to your needs.

is fixed to the specified object Win8 start desktop tile

Right click on the Win8 start screen and select the “All Apps” button in the lower right corner to enter the “Applications” interface where you can see all the applications installed on the Win8 system. Right click on the app that needs to be fixed to the Win8 start screen. The action menu will appear at the bottom of the screen. We just need to select “fix to ‘start & rsquo;screen”

If you want to fix the site to start Win8 screen, first we click on the IE browser from the Win8 Start screen tile icon to enter Win8 IE10 browser interface. Visit our favorite websites. Then click the right mouse button and the control menu will appear at the bottom of the screen. Click the pin icon button, and the menu will appear "Always to ‘ Start & rsquo; Menu" and "Add to Favorites" option, select “ Pin to & lsquo; Start & rsquo; Menu & rdquo;