Questions tagged [start-screen]
The Start Screen is the default Welcome page and Application Launcher in Windows-8. It is based on the Metro UI, features static or live content as Tiles, and search capabilities.
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Windows 8.1 start screen backgrounds file location
In Windows 8, the start screen backgrounds used to be in the imageres.dll file, but as of 8.1 they're not.
Does anyone know where the start screen backgrounds are housed in Windows 8.1?
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Windows 8 keeps removing some start screen shortcuts I make
I've made some custom shortcuts to Google Chrome profiles and successfully pin them to my start screen but when my computer reboots or goes to sleep and wakes they have disappeared. If i repin them ...
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My application always starts on the primary monitor
I am running Visual Studio 2019 (Windows GUI application) on the 2nd monitor. When I build and start the application, it always appears on the primary/main monitor.
I want it to appear on the same ...
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How to show "Run as different user" on Start in Windows 8.1 Update 1?
Is it possible to show the "Run as different user" option for applications on Start in Windows 8.1 Update 1?
I have enabled Show "Run as different user" command on Start user policy but to no avail. ...
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How to restore Start menu shortcuts in Windows 8.1
Now I can't even get to the Desktop in 8.1 without pressing +D. I also can't get to the Store, OneDrive, or Camera. How can I restore these shortcuts?
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Can I set the Start Menu in Full-Screen Mode to open "All Apps" by default?
When I open the start menu in Windows 10, by default it shows me the "Pinned Tiles". I don't have any pinned tiles, so this is just a blank menu.
Can I tell windows to default to "All Apps" instead?
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Items length in Windows 10 Start screen
I use Windows 10 (Enterprise, Version 1709, OS Build 16299.125).
The evolution of Start menu/screen since Win8 ended up in something very weird for me. I don't care much if it is full screen or what ...
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How to remove the Start Menu's context menu in Windows 10
I'm trying to disable the right click on start menu apps in Windows 10. By tweaking few of StartMenu & Taskbar GPOs, I'm able to disable most of the context menu options except "turn live tile on/...
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Windows 8 home screen not visible after booting and entering password
i have re-started my laptop with windows 8 OS several times over. But I am stuck. the following is happening :
I put the power button on. Then it asks for password. I enter the password. But nothing ...
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Windows 8 Start Screen ribbon mysteriously replaced by context menu, how to reverse?
When I first set up Windows 8 (core edition) on my desktop PC, it showed the following behavior when I right-clicked a start screen tile:
It was possible to right-click multiple tiles and use the ...
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Linking to an External Folder of Shortcuts in Windows 8.1 Start Menu
I'm trying to add a folder to my start screen using symbolic links. I can't seem to get any linked folders to show up. Here is what I tried first:
cd "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\...
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How can I manually pin a URL to the Windows 8 start screen?
The only way I've found so far to pin a URL to the start screen, is to load this URL in Internet Explorer, then click Pin, and Pin to Start.
The problem is, it forces me to load the URL, which then ...
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How to quickly select multiple tiles in Windows 8 start screen?
after installing an application there are lots of new tiles appeared at my Windows 8 start screen.
I want to remove them, but currently I only can right-click on them one by one and after selecting ...
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Windows 8 Tile Color
With Windows 8.1, the start screen tiles for desktop apps seem to have all sorts of colors. It seems to be based on the color of the icon or something. Anyways, this makes the screen look messy.
With ...
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Windows 8 Start Screen Lagging
For some reason, when explorer.exe gets restarted on my Windows 8 PC, the start screen is laggy. What I mean by laggy is that when I scroll in the start screen, it takes a bit to show the rest of the ...
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Windows 8 Start Screen Tiles Grouping in "All Apps" view
Is there an easy way to group tiles in the "All Apps" view? SQL Server comes installed with like 23 apps and I want to group them into one tile.
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Startup Issue on HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15 ed1xxx - No Display
I'm encountering a problem with my HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15 laptop (model ed1xxx). Upon attempting to power it on, there is no display visible, and even the HP logo doesn't appear. I've done some ...
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How to disable lock-Screen "Sign in Screen" when waking up from Hibernation in Windows 11?
How to disable lock-Screen "Sign in Screen" when waking up from Hibernation Windows 11?
I tried every way on Google, but none of the methods works, I am asking when waking from Hibernation, ...
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Windows 7 stuck on starting window
my computer with windows 7 got crashed due to opening large number of software files. but when i am starting it again, it is stucking at windows starting screen(screenshot attached). Even when i start ...
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Laptop hangs on startup but works fine on Safe Mode
I have a Samsung RV511 Windows 7 home premium based laptop,it is 32 bit with 4 Gb Ram.
It worked fine until 6 months back when the screen started flickering when not on charging, after some days it ...
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Windows 10 stuck on startup screen
After I shut down my Acer (Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.15]), the laptop suddenly doesn't boot anymore. I basically just try to run different commands in the hope that this fixes W10. After I ...
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LCD laptop display is greyed out on startup
I have just a small display problem with my laptop (HP Elitebook 8440p) running on Debian 8. Whenever the computer is booting up from sleep, my screen will either be flashing pixels everywhere, or be ...
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Constantly spinning circle on startup
Have win10, had it for a while now on this machine. Had to move, computer spent a couple nights in my car at close to zero and now it won't boot.
Windows splash screen comes up fine. When that passes ...
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Windows 10 Start Screen animation choppy on new Dell XPS
I just got a brand new, shiny XPS 15
(16GB / i7 / 4k / 512 SSD / Nvidia & Intel GPUS).
Something that annoys me a little bit though is that the start screen animation isn't smooth. It was damn ...
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Photoshop starting screen is just gradient circles
I have using adobe photoshop for couple of months. I have photoshop in 2 machines. 1st one is my acer aspire with intel HD Graphics. in this laptop photoshop starting screen looks like this:
2nd one ...
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Windows Won't Start - Help Analyzing CBS.log please
Good day,
Helping a friend with Windows load issue where I'm receiving STOP: c000021a error blue screen of death while Windows is loading. Following online instructions, I've run sfc /scannow ...
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Folder SysWOW64 opens on start
I am using Windows 8.1.
About a week ago, the folder kept on popping up, everytime I switched on my Laptop.
I formatted my Laptop, installing Windows 8.1, all over again.
After 2 days, the folder ...
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Windows 8.1: Editing and refreshing items in the Apps view
Apps view of the Windows 8.1 start screen maps from the following folders:
shell:common start menu\programs (affects all users)
shell:start menu\programs (affects current user)
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Is there any way to make the Windows 8.1 start screen span multiple monitors?
I've done a search and come up with nothing other than a couple of posts from a year or two back when it didn't appear to be possible. Does anyone know of an aftermarket utility that will perform ...
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Set a shortcut key for Windows 8.1 Start screen
I have currently set the behavior of Windows button to go automatically to "Apps view" instead of the original Start screen.
But sometimes I want to go to the main Start screen (not the App view) by ...
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How to fix the down arrow icon in Windows 8.1 start screen?
I am using Windows 8.1 and the down arrow button in the start screen, that takes you to the Apps screen, has a misplaced font file, and is showing a box instead of down arrow. This happened after I ...
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Re-enable automatic pinning to start screen
Just got a new laptop with Windows 8 (unfortunately) and I notice that downloaded apps/programs aren't automatically added to the Start Screen.
From here it seems that this was a "feature" added in 8....
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Windows 8.1 Start Screen Changes monitors but doesn't retain the monitor
I have already searched on here for how to change the Windows 8.1 start screen to a secondary monitor. I found that it is Shift+Windows+Left Arrow or Shift+Windows+Right Arrow.
Although, when I make ...
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Reset download state of start screen tiles in Windows 8?
After installing Windows 8.1 a while ago, I noticed that a lot of the apps that I have downloaded and installed on the computer still show the "Install" icon in the lower right hand side of the tile, ...
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Add newly installed programs to Start in Windows 8.1
In Windows 8, when I installed a program it automatically shows up in Start.
But in Windows 8.1, this behaviour is missing. Every time I installed a new program I have to search for it and manually ...
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How to enable being able to move tiles and launch as another user in the windows 8 start screen
I'm on a fresh windows 8 install and as part of an early roll-out program it happens to be customized for a normal user, where as I'm a developer. I would like to be able to move tiles and customize ...
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Windows 8 how to enable Start Options - UEFI Firmware
I wish to get that screen
But I have
If I click Troubleshoot I get only button that says Advanced Settings - Startup Settings
How do I enable it to make it look like on first image?
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Any way to make the start screen transparent?
Is there any way to make the start screen background fully transparent so that it displays my desktop (including everything on my desktop and any open windows)?
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Windows 8 Start Screen Shortcuts for Desktop Apps
I am facing an issue regarding Windows 8 shortcuts.
My app is not getting pinned for all users for the installed desktop apps.
If a user is installing that desktop app, then the shortcut of the app ...
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Can't launch Chrome from the Taskbar or Start Screen when running as an administrator
My problem is pretty simple. I can launch Google Chrome v35.0.1916.114 from anywhere with no problems until I set the .exe to run as an administrator (useful for downloading files to my C:\ drive).
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Windows 8.1 Welcome Screen Language Malfunction
once I changed my system language to Persian, but after a while I reset the settings back to English and the Country to the US. Though everything is English and the welcome screen settings are also in ...
