Script from video aboveWhen you go to the Start screen, you will see tiles for all your installed apps organized in a default manner. Whenever you install new apps, their tiles get added to this screen as well. These tiles can be broadly categorized into two categories: Metro apps and non-Metro apps which are standard Windows programs.
The difference between tiles for Metro and non-Metro apps can be spotted at first glance – the Metro apps have custom-designed tiles while the tiles for non-Metro apps are basically squares with the app names and icons.
To customize any of the tiles, you have to right-click them to select them first. After right-clicking, the tile gets selected, and a bar pops up on the bottom of the screen, showing you all the available options for the tile. Note that these options are different for different types of tiles.
You may even continue right-clicking on multiple tiles to select more than one tile at a time, and the options will update to contain only the operations that can be performed on all the selected tiles together. To deselect any tile, simply right-click on it again.
Upon selecting tiles, several actions become available, depending on the app. For Metro apps, these are usually limited to unpinning, uninstalling, choose smaller/larger size and selecting live tile on/off.
When it comes to non-Metro apps however, all the options for Metro apps are available. In addition to unpinning and uninstallation, you also get other options for pinning the app to the taskbar, opening a new window, running the app as administrator and opening its file location.
Selecting any tile will give you 'Unpin from Start' as the first option. Just click on it and the tile will be gone from the Start screen. This will *NOT* uninstall the program, and the tile can be very easily added back, so feel free to remove tiles for any apps you don't want showing up on the Start screen.
Right-click anywhere on the background of the Start screen (not on a tile) and you will see an 'All apps' button appear at the bottom. Click it to get a list of all your installed apps. Once there, right-click on any app and you will see the option 'Pin to Start' pop up at the bottom.
When you select a tile that can be resized, you will be presented with the option to do so, depending on its current size. If it is currently a large rectangular tile, you will see a 'Smaller' option, while if it is currently a small square tile, you'll see a 'Larger' option. Just click on the appropriate option to get the tile in your desired size.
It makes good sense to organize your app tiles into sections, keeping tiles for related apps together. On the Start screen, you can simply drag and drop tiles from one spot to another, and they will snap nicely to the grid, automatically shoving other tiles out of the way while keeping them aligned to the grid as well.
You can also move apps into different columns. Just drag an app's tile horizontally and you will see a gray bar appear in the direction you are dragging it. Drop the tile on that gray bar and it will get a column of its own, into which other tiles can then be added the same way to make a group of apps.
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