The Windows 8 Start Screen contains tiles that allow you to launch an associated app. These tiles also have the ability to display notifications containing new information from that particular tiles ...

This tutorial demonstrates how to give users more power with the ability to customize live tiles in Metro style apps. In my last article, I explained how to send push notifications to a Windows 8 ...

Certain Metro tiles in Windows can show you live and updated information. Here's how to turn that feature on and off. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Hey Windows users, if you are looking for a quick way to connect to GeekWire’s latest news, check out our new live tile for Windows 8.1. If you are using Windows 8.1/IE 11, when you visit “pin to ...

If you know what you can and cannot do to adjust the display of your Windows 8 app tiles, you'll be much more adept at setting up your start screen. I'm an expert in software and work-related issues, ...

In this post, we will see how to use PowerShell Scripts to create & add Shutdown, Restart, Logoff, Switch User, Hibernation Tiles to Windows 8.1/8 Start Menu/Screen. As you know Windows 8 has a Start ...

When you start Windows 8, you are first taken to the Start Screen where you get to see a lot of Apps in the form of tiles. And these tiles are arranged randomly by default. And new tiles get added ...

A new feature in Windows 8 is tiles on the Start Screen called Live Tiles that can display a constantly updating stream of new information related to that particular app. This allows you to have all ...

Windows 8 is not always great at generating Start tiles for installed software. OblyTile is a small program that generates better-looking tiles and automatically installs them on your Start page. One ...

Wouldn’t you love to have this option in your Windows 8 Start screen? Last October I explained to how to shut down Windows 8—a subject you wouldn’t think would require its own how-to guide. And yet.

Windows 8 uses the Metro tile interface design extensively and indeed Microsoft has been using the tile UI for other products like Windows Phone and the Xbox 360 dashboard. In the latest post on the ...