tiles

how can you turn off the auto arrange for tiles in the start screen. when i move a tile where i want it everything shifts, including tiles i have already placed. very frustrating.

How do I turn off auto arrange, and also stop the snap to grid function on the desktop so I can arrange the tiles exactly the way I want?

I updated from Windows 7 Home Premium. Everything was working fine until this morning. I am able to boot to my user account and the Start screen appears. However, none of the tiles work. I can't get onto my desktop. When I try Task Manager, it will flash briefly but won't display. I can switch...

I really like Windows 8 and am thinking of getting it, but I have one problem - I hate the desktop! Aside from deleting the tile from the start screen and not moving your mouse to the bottom left corner to show it, is there any way to uninstall the desktop completely so that when Windows...

If I do the original size than it is way too overblown, but when I do fit to size (or whatever you call them) it has two black bars on flanking on the sides, so i want to fix that with tiles. But if I do tiles it shows them at original size which is overblown.

Hello all, For some reason the tile doesn't work for me anymore, when I click on the tile a photo to the desktop it shows up as two or three big tiles insted of a lot of little tiles to fill up the desktop, I also use a number of photos but they all come as a few big tiles, what shood I do...

With the announcement that we can expect the next preview iteration of Windows 8 as early as the first week of June, what would you like to see and then what do you actually expect to see? Does anyone but me think that if we are expected to swallow this new start screen, as a first, if not...

In case you haven't noticed, if you are on the Metro UI screen and happen to hit the space bar twice, one of the tiles is unpinned from Start.. Not really sure why it would work that way.

We have been saying all along that you can opt out of the tiles interface in Windows 8. Mark Kaelin shows you the registry tweak to make it happen. Link Removed

Link Removed How does one go about making a metro style tile or icon for applications? As things stand right now the Metro UI looks like an absolute ghetto mess as soon as you get any number of standard applications installed. There is a handful of nice looking tiles, and then a vast number...

Some of these are new, others are the same keyboard shortcuts we've known for years. Note that "charms" refer to an element of the Metro interface Win + Spacebar : Switch the input language and keyboard layout Win + C : Open the Charms Win + D : Show the desktop Win + E : open Windows Explorer...

On this site I found a hack to turn off the Metro UI and once that is done what is left is Windows 7. Is that all Windows 8 is? With the Tiles running as a application? Also, once the Metro UI is turned off where do you find all of the same apps that appear on it?

....change this ugly green background on the Tiles page? Thanks.

I installed Windows 8 within Oracle's VirtualBox. It installed and it comes up. I even joined our domain. But no tiles work (except desktop and control panel). Any other tile I click on does nothing. Is there something special you need to configure to make the tiles work? Also, where the...

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In this episode, Corrina continues the Design Tips miniseries by sharing her insights on how to create tiles and splash screens for Windows Phone applications. She walks through the process of creating an icon in Expression Design and how to make tiles look good and quickly mesh with Metro...

Indie developers inspired by tiles. Source: Yahoo! News

Indie developers inspired by tiles. More...

This week, Microsoft revealed a little of what to expect from the next Windows operating system. With its Windows Phone look and touch - literally - and tiles everywhere, it will be a major refresh, but there's a still a number of unanswered questions. Here are my top five: Link Removed

This week, Microsoft revealed a little of what to expect from the next Windows operating system. With its Windows Phone look and touch - literally - and tiles everywhere, it will be a major refresh, but there's a still a number of unanswered questions. Here are my top five: Link Removed