Design and create personalized Windows 8 system start screen

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 tile 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.

Dynamic Tiles Start/Shutdown, Reduce/Enlarge, Move

In fact, Win8's tiles are much more than just shortcuts. For some applications with real-time updates, their tiles Belongs to the dynamic tile, in the state of turning on the dynamic display, we can see the real-time information in the start screen of Win8 without clicking the tile to run these applications, such as scrolling display mail, microblog, picture, stock, weather, The content of the news, etc., it can be said that the dynamic tile is the real-time notification window of 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.

Icon: 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.

Illustration: Win8 dynamic tile setting size

For all tiles, we can use the mouse or finger to drag and move the position, when moving the position, the surrounding tiles will Automatically reposition the positions.

Note: For the touch screen, after holding down the tile, drag a little down and then drag and drop to other locations.

Illustration: Win8 tile moving position

Tile grouping, naming, moving

Using the system for a long time, the application in the system The number of programs and files will increase, and the number of tiles on the Win8 start 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 this post to create a new tile group

Zoom out: Click the small minus button in the lower right corner of the screen. The touch screen user can use two fingers to close the touch operation mode, so that all the tiles on the Win8 start screen will be reduced.

Icon: 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.

Icon: Name the selected tile group

Move the tile group position: Drag the tile group with your mouse or your finger to move the position at will.

Icon: Drag and drop the tile group

Icon: Drag group shift is completed

Win8 tile setup and operation

Win8 The tile can be an application, a program, a system tool, a website, a file, a folder, etc. The right mouse button clicks on the tile, and an operation bar appears at the bottom of the screen. For different types of tiles, there are different 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.

Pin the specified object to Win8 to start the tile on the desktop

Right click on the Win8 start screen and select the “All apps” icon button in the lower right corner to enter “Application”. Interface, where you can see all the applications installed in 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 website to the Win8 start screen, first we click the IE browser tile icon from the Win8 start screen to enter the Win8 interface IE10 browser. 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 "Fix to ‘ Start & rsquo; Menu" and "Add to Favorites" option, select “ Pin to ‘ Start & rsquo; Menu & rdquo;

In the traditional Windows desktop, right click on the icon or folder of the program, select "ld to fixed from the right-click menu" & rsquo; start & rsquo; screen & rdquo;, you can fix the specified object to the Win8 start screen magnet.

Illustration: Fix the specified program to the Win8 start menu

Illustration: Pin the specified folder to the Win8 start menu

The above details the Win8 system. The various operations of the magnetic paste, I hope to be familiar with the use of Win8 system and interface operations.