Protecting privacy Quickly clear Win8 dynamic tile personal information

The colored tiles on the Windows 8 Start screen are not just shortcuts to various applications. For applications that contain real-time updates, their live tiles can automatically display real-time information, such as scrolling through messages, micro Bo updates content, images, stock trends, weather information, news feeds, etc. It can be said that dynamic tiles are real-time notification windows for these applications. However, applications such as mail, contacts, and pictures involve some private information. If it is viewed in public, it is not a pleasant thing. Is there any way to quickly clear all the information displayed by Win8 dynamic tile?

Some friends say that you can right click on the dynamic tile and select “ld” from the operation menu at the bottom of the screen to close the dynamic tile. & rdquo;, so the selected tile will not scroll display real-time information (message, information application as shown below). Indeed, with this setting method, it is possible to set whether or not the real-time information display is turned on for the dynamic magnetic label one by one, but if the time is urgent, it is necessary to quickly turn off the information display of the dynamic magnetic tile, and it is too late to apply an application to set, and this setting is too late. The method is to completely turn off the information display of the tile. Below we describe several ways to quickly clear the personal information in the Win8 start screen tile.
Icon: Turn off Win8 dynamic tile

Clear tile personal information in Win8 super button sidebar

Press “Win + I” combination in Win8 start screen Press or use your finger to swipe the pop-up from the right end of the screen to the middle and select the “Set> gear icon and click on “Magnetize” above the sidebar on the right side of the screen.
Icon: Enter the tile settings from the sidebar of the Win8 charms

After entering the tile settings interface from the Win8 sidebar, we can see a “clear from my tile For personal information & rdquo; settings, click the "Clear" button to clear all personal information displayed by the current tile. Comparing the above picture and the right picture below, you can see that the information of pictures, stocks, weather and other tiles have been closed instantly.
Icon: Quickly clear the personal information displayed on the Win8 tile

Delete the history in the Win8 computer settings

Press the “Win + I” key combination in the Win8 start screen Or use your finger to swipe the pop-up button from the right end of the screen to the middle and select the “Settings” gear icon. Click on the bottom of the sidebar at the right end of the screen to “Change PC Settings”.

Enter Win8 Computer Settings In the interface, find “General” in the category on the left, then click “Delete History” on the right side of the application switch.
Icon: Clear history in Win8 system settings

In addition to the method described above, we can also set the Win8 system status to shutdown to automatically clear the tile history through Group Policy.

Setting Win8 Shutdown to Automatically Clean Tile History by Group Policy

If you feel that it is a bit troublesome to clear the history from time to time, we can also set Win8 to shut down automatically to clear the magnetics through Group Policy. Post history.

Press the shortcut "Win+R" to enter "ldped;gpedit.msc" in the run window (without quotes).
Icon: Open Group Policy from Win8 Run Window

Enter Win8 Local Group Policy Editor, select “User Configuration –Administrative Templates–‘Start & rsquo;Menu and Taskbar”, On the right we can see <;Clear tile notifications and history when exiting the system”.
Icon: Win8 Local Group Policy Editor

Double-click "Clear Tile Notifications and History" when exiting the system, select "“Enabled" in the pop-up settings window. Then click the “OK” button below.

If this setting is enabled, the Win8 system will delete the notification of the tile when the user logs out. Therefore, the tile in the start screen when the user logs back in to Win8 will always display its default content. In addition, all cached versions of these notifications will be cleared when the user logs out.