I have a very slow Internet connection and don't want Live Tiles using up my bandwidth for updates.
Is there a way to shut them off?
I've changed the Show updates for Tiles in the settings but still they show up.
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10FWIW, you can also set your connection as being metered (if you haven't already), which limits Live Tile updates to 50Mb/month, but also tells your applications to minimize the amount of bandwidth they consume.– MattOct 31, 2012 at 17:56
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You can disable live update for each tile by right-clicking it and choosing "Turn live tile off":
answered Oct 31, 2012 at 11:57
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1The better solution is to completely uninstall the bandwidth-sucking Metro apps. I don't trust them at all. This is ridiculous - these live tiles sucked up GBs of data on my cell hotspot and cost my $25+ easily before I figured out what was going on.– user359565Aug 20, 2014 at 1:08
In the interface, you do not have an option to change a live tile’s update frequency. There might be some registry hack to do it.
An easier way would be: To turn off individual tiles, right-click the tile on the Metro startpage, and select the turn live tile off option on the bottom toolbar.
answered Oct 31, 2012 at 11:54
If you don't want to do this on a per-app basis, you can disable Live Tile notifications, Toast messages, and communications with the Windows Push Notification Service in the following Local Group Policy branch:
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Task Bar\Notifications
answered Nov 1, 2012 at 13:36
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1and here's know to open the GroupPolicyEditor - technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731745.aspx Also note that this works only with Professional edition of windows. Oct 27, 2014 at 16:42
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1This setting is available but doesn't seem to disable anything on Windows 10. Jul 29, 2015 at 16:57
Just right click on the tile and select Turn live tile off
If you don't want to use the Metro interface with live tiles then you can install Classic Shell which is available at http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ This will remove the Metro interface being default and will default you to the regular desktop with a Start menu.
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11Probably because this answer amounts to: "To turn off the bathroom faucet, first remove the plumbing from your house..." Oct 31, 2012 at 16:39
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2Reading Comprehension 101: When he says "shut them off", he's referring to the updates, not the live tiles themselves.– KaranOct 31, 2012 at 18:07
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1But he didn't ask how to get the start menu back. He asked how to turn off live tile updates.– MatthewNov 6, 2012 at 0:19