The tiles pinned to the start screen are icons that you can use these to gather all the information you need with one simple glance and they all fit neatly together on the start screen without the ...

Sometimes, you may want to pin Windows Special folders as Tiles to the Windows 8 Start Screen. In this post, we will guide you through the process of doing it. As an example, we will take Control ...

If you are looking for a way to pin your favorite website’s shortcut or tile to the Windows 8.1 Start Screen, this post will show you how to do it for Internet Explorer 11. Things were easier on ...

Previously on How to Tech, we showed you how to skip the Start screen tiles in Windows 8.1 so you can start your computer right on the desktop. But what if you prefer playing with those Start tiles?

Live Tiles are great but sometimes you want to pin a website, game, or folder to your Start Screen and the default ones just look out of place. Pin More lets you create custom tiles for just about ...

Windows 10 quintessentially combines the functionality of Windows 8 Start screen with the ageing style and looks of Windows 7 Start menu, wherein some older apps could be represented as ugly Win32 ...

In Windows 8 you are able to create a Start Screen tile, or pinned site, that is associated with a particular web site. You can then click on the pinned site tile and Internet Explorer will ...

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