Questions tagged [live-tiles]
Live Tiles are a feature of the Windows 8 Modern UI, akin to "Widgets" in other graphical environments. They can for example display calendars, weather information or e-mails.
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Why does thumbnail from deleted photo still shows up in the Photos tile in Windows 10?
I deleted a photo on Windows 10 and emptied the trash.
Now, the photo still appears in the Microsoft Photos tile in the start menu. How can I remove it there? Is there a thumbnail trailing somewhere?
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Unpinned start menu titles reappear with "A great new app is coming"
In the past, I unpinned all tiles from the start menu so that I have just the vertical column of apps.
Shortly after the 1809 update on February 4th, 2019**, these tiles came back, many of them empty:...
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How do I fix grayed out live tiles?
My Windows 10 live tiles are all grayed out. If I click on any of them it says to wait a few minutes and try again as they're being updated. They've been like this for a couple weeks now. I've run ...
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Windows 10 tile layout in Start Menu resets after reboot
Note: I will be answering this question myself to help other people
who come across this problem in the future. Feel free to submit your
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Start Menu icons broken after Windows 10 Creators Update (version 1703) install
I freshly installed Windows 10, and this is how the icons look on the Start Menu:
Update: 04.05.2017
Today, the icons seem missing. I assume that issue got fixed by itself.
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When pinning to web shortcuts to a windows 10 tile, the icon changes
I have created windows shortcuts to web sites I often visit, I have then manually set the icon of the shortcut to the logo of the website
These are web shortcuts where the shortcut target looks like ...
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How do I configure my Start Menu to display 6 medium tile columns?
I know how to change my start menu between 3 and 4 medium tile columns.
I know how to maximize my start menu.
Recently I've seen newer users of Windows 10 who's default, unmaximized Start Menu shows ...
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How to remove all the tiles in the Windows 10 start menu?
A common problem I have is that I have a new PC that I'll be using for a while. And pretty much every Windows 10 PC I've used (even work PCs) have a ton of junk I don't want in the start menu in the ...
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Show website as startmenu tile
I have a small webpage which shows me some information.
Is it possible to put it as tile into the windows 10 startmenu?
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How to change default size of tile when using "Pin to Start" in Windows 10?
When using "Pin to Start" option in Windows 10 all tiles are set to default size which is "Medium".
Is there any way to change the default size to "Small"?
I know that I can change that manually. ...
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How to configure live tiles (calendar, etc) in Windows 10
I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and I'm using Live Tiles in the Start menu. Where can I configure what is shown?
I assumed there would be settings within the apps, but there's not. E.g. the ...
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Windows 10 Build 10122 Live Tiles Disabled
As you can see the majority of my "live" tiles are disabled. I click, and nothing happens. At first I thought it was automatically downloading them, but after some time nothing changes. The rest of ...
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How to reset the Windows Push Notification Platform?
For my user account, the Windows Push Notification Platform seems to be messed up. I have the following symptoms:
In the Settings charm, Notifications is grayed out. The tool-tip is Turned off by ...
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How do I add a live tile to Windows 8.1 from an RSS feed?
How can I create a live tile in Windows8.1 using content from an RSS feed?
For example, if I have an RSS feed http://example.com/feed.xml how can I add this content to a live tile?
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Unable to add/remove tiles in clean Windows 8 installation
I can't add/remove tiles to my start screen because right-clicking does NOT bring up a menu. I have a clean install of Windows 8.1. When I right-click a tile, it puts a check mark on it, but no menu ...
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