Tag Results For: Start Screen

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Personalize Windows 8 Start Screen With My WCP Start Screen Customizer

The Windows 8 Start Screen with the Metro UI has had mixed review by users with some welcoming this huge step towards modernization of the Windows operating system, while others complaining about the huge change in Start Screen, as well as the other new options and features that they will have to get used to. [...] (more…)

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Customize Windows 8 Charms Bar With My WCP CharmBar Customizer

Among the various new toolbars and options included in the Windows 8, Charms Bar is one of the major additions to the UI of the Windows operating system. It changes the way we interact with the system and access different options. You can read a detailed review of the Windows 8 Charms Bar here. Microsoft [...] (more…)

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Start8 Adds Metro Start Menu In Windows 8, The Way It Should Have Been

A while back, Aatif explained why Microsoft took a bold decision of removing the traditional Start Orb and Start Menu from Windows 8, and then Fawad featured a Windows 8 application named ViStart for all those avid Start Menu users who want to bring the classic Start Orb as well as Start Menu back to [...] (more…)

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Where Is The Start Menu In Windows 8?

Ever since the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 became available two days back, the maximum complaint that most users daring enough to test the new OS have come up with – no Start Orb (or menu, or button, whichever you prefer). This aspect of the new OS became even more erratic than before, since the [...] (more…)

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How To Remove Multiple Metro App Tiles From Windows 8 Start Screen

When you first get started on Windows 8, you will be moving around the app tiles on the Metro Start Screen. You might also want to remove some or most of them. Even if you decide to keep all the default tiles, you will still accommodate junk tiles from apps that you install and having to [...] (more…)

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Where (The Heck) Is Computer In Windows 8?

So Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 Consumer Preview yesterday, making it available to the masses for testing and getting a taste of the new Metro UI and the OS in general. Amidst all the oohs and aahs, one frustration that many users came across was the (apparent) lack of the Computer icon on the desktop. Now, [...] (more…)

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Get Windows 8 Start Screen & Lock Screen On Windows 7

Previously, we have covered a lot of tools that bring the Windows 8 Metro UI elements to Windows 7, such as Metro7 (adds Metro Start Screen to Windows 7), Metro Sidebar (lets you add Windows 8 style sidebar to desktop), and Newgen (brings Windows 8 Metro Tiles to Windows 7 desktop). Today, we have an [...] (more…)

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Bypass Windows 8 Start Screen On Startup & Jump Directly To Desktop

Unlike previous versions of Windows where you are taken to desktop at system startup, Windows 8 welcomes you with Metro Start Screen, providing quick access to applications and system shortcuts, pinned programs, and so on. Apparently, Windows 8 doesn’t allow users to bring the classic Windows Startup behavior back. If you don’t want to click [...] (more…)

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How To Change Windows 8 Metro Start Screen Background Colors

The new metro UI based Windows 8 keeps green as primary background color for numerous user interface elements, ranging from Start Screen, Search, Share, and Setting pane, to User tiles and Login screen. If you’re into customizing Windows 8 new user interface elements, you might like to change the background color of Start Screen, right-side [...] (more…)