#Turn off live tiles how to#
How to unpin or remove tiles from Start screenĪfter installing a new program on Windows 8, the program may place one or more tile on your Start screen, akin to how programs flood the traditional Start menu on older versions of Windows. Then enter the name you want and click “Name”. After that, right-click (or long tap) on the group you want to name and select the “Name group” button from the bottom left corner. To name/rename, you have to zoom out the Start screen by clicking the minus button at the lower right corner of your screen or scrolling your mouse wheel while pressing CTRL key. Now you need to name the new or modified group. To create a new group, you drag a tile out of its current group then release it when you see a transparent rectangle appears:
#Turn off live tiles windows 8#
In Windows 8 Start screen, you have the ability to group your tiles together, which allows for better organization. Once zoomed out, drag the group to new position: If you want to move an entire group of tiles (how to group tiles is found in tip #4 below), you need zoom out the Start screen first by clicking the minus button at the lower right corner of your screen or scrolling your mouse wheel while pressing CTRL key. At this point, you can easily place your tile where you want without having to drag it all over the place. …and the Start screen will automatically zoom out. When you want to move a tile, you must drag it (again, left click + hold or long tap + hold) but instead of dragging it to a place on the Start screen, drag the to any edge or corner of your screen… It’s such a painful experience, especially with all that horizontal scrolling! Thankfully, there is an easier and faster way to move tiles. However, this is a problem if you have over a hundred tiles on the Start screen and you want to move a tile from the end to the start or vice versa - you have to drag the tile a long way before you can release your mouse button or your tap. Rearranging tiles on Windows 8 Start screen is easy - just drag a tile (left click + hold or long tap + hold) to move it to a new place. This needs to be repeated for all live tiles you want to disable. To disable a live tile, simply right-click on the tile (or long tap, in the case of a touchscreen) then choose “Turn live tile off” from the App bar. So some people may want to disable live tiles. As useful as they are, some live tiles, such as the aforementioned Bing tile, can be annoying some can even be privacy hazards, in the case of the Photo and Messaging tiles. the Bing tile automatically updates to show trending searches).
#Turn off live tiles update#
These tiles automatically update themselves to provide you with the latest information (e.g. One cool feature of Windows 8 are live tiles. You need to repeat this for all the tiles you want to resize. Changing a tile from large to small or small to large is easy - right-click on a tile (or long tap, in the case of a touchscreen) then choose “Smaller” or “Larger” from the App bar to change its size. Since large tiles are larger (duh), large tiles give you more information than small tiles but also take up more space.
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