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Cool ways to customize the Start Screen

Customize the Windows Store tile

Windows Store

  1. Navigate to C:\Windows\WinStore and make a backup of the images folder.

  2. Take ownership of the images folder.

  3. Open the images folder.

  4. To customize the normal tile, edit the logo.png and logo.scale-x.png files and to customize the wide tile, edit the tilewide.png and tilewide.scale-x.png files.

  5. Open the Start Screen and make the size of the Store tile smaller or larger and you will be able to see the changes.

NOTE: This unique trick was discovered by me and is not posted anywhere.

Add heading to tile groups

  1. Open the Start Screen.

    S1

  2. If you are using a tablet, press two fingers on the screen and move them towards each other. Or, if you are using a mouse, click at the extreme bottom-right corner.

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  3. If you are using a tablet, press the group of tiles and move your finger a bit down. Or, if you are using a mouse then right-click the group of tiles.

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  4. Click Name Group.

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  5. Type the name that you want to give to the tile group and click Name.

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  6. That's it.

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Change the number of rows on the Start Screen

1. Download and run this [app][9].

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  1. Select the number of rows that you want to show and click Apply.

  2. That's it. If you ever want to revert this trick, just click Restore default.

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