Colour and pattern of the Windows 8 start screen customize
Important for the appearance of the start screen the color is natural. Microsoft has prefabricated some combinations that you can retrieve the settings:
- Open the Charm Bar by moving the mouse pointer to the corner of the screen in the top right. Select the very bottom "change PC settings".
- There, you should go directly to Customize the menu"". Select in the middle of "home". There, you can determine the pattern and color of your start screen.
The colors and pattern customize
System Shortcuts on the home screen
Even the options for the Standby, a logoff or a restart of the computer are hidden in Windows 8 right. The small and practical Tool "Win8 System Power Shortcuts" brings pre-made tiles on the Homescreen. Such shortcuts can make your work easier very.
Tiles to summarize in a group
A small and little-noticed Option, which proves to be very useful is the grouping of tiles on the start screen. It is very easy to let some space between the tiles of the different groups, which contributes much to the Overview:
- The home screen is divided already in groups. If you click on a tile and hold, you can move all over the screen.
- You can position an App in such a way that it is located in the space between the two groups, there is displayed a light beam. When you release the tile well, is formed a new group.
- Move or remove all tiles of a group, the group is closed automatically.
- By pressing on the home screen, "Ctrl" and the mouse scroll out, you will get an Overview of your entire screen. Here, you can click groups, and then move.
New tile groups creating
Adjustable Metro tiles for individual files
An example of such a Tool for personalization is "OblyTile". With the free program, you can effortlessly directories, or individual files as a tile on the surface and the color and label change. This is under Windows 8 that are normally not possible.
Create tiles with OblyTile
How about the home screen on your recently opened documents, you will learn in this practical tip.
The following instructions are based on Windows 8 Pro 64bit. In addition, practical tips will show you, for example, where you have Icons for Windows 8 how Apps restore , or even how to use the start screen at system startup to skip.
