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Customize Adjust and Move the Windows 8 Tile Screen

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1 Introduction
2 Steps
3 Video: Customize Adjust and Move the Windows 8 Tile Screen
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Introduction

Hi you are watching VisiHow and today we are going to show you how to add and remove items from the 'start bar' on your Windows 8 computer or touch screen. Now, the start bar is also refereed to as the 'tile screen', by a number of people, and it's where all your things show up on Windows.

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Let's go ahead and take a look at that now by pressing the Windows key
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Which is the button next to your space bar.

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This opens up our tile screen
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You can see here that we've got a number of different things on here, but the screen is kind of empty.

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Also, there is a 'scroll bar' on the bottom where we can scroll to the right to see more things, or we can scroll back to the left
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Now, we don't have to have that scroll bar there
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We can move things back over here. Which gets rid of the scroll bar to a degree.
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We can also shrink things
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Anything that we right-click, and re-size. We'll make her small.
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Now she's small, we can make this basketball player small as well
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Re-size, small, and move him over here.
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Re-size our 'Top Places To Go' as well, and make that small
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Now the scroll bar completely disappears from the bottom.
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If that is something that is your preference, from an aesthetics perspective, that's an easy thing to set up
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Right-click, select small, move this up here. Now we've got four little icons.
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Over here on the right we have got icons as well
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We can drag those around.
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I can drag the 'Settings' over here
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I can right-click it. I can re-size it. I can make it medium. Now, some icons,like this one, you are limited to only a couple of options as to what you can do with the sizes.
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Here's some pictures of my little babies
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I'm going to re-size that and we'll go ahead and set that to 'wide'.
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There we go
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Let's move him up here, no, move him up to the top because I like to see him.
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So we have this little guy here with his little toy car
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We have our 'mail'. We have our 'calendar'. Now mail and calendar I don't use that often, so we'll go ahead and move those over to medium. Go ahead and re-size calendar to medium as well. Now they automatically sit next to each other.
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Here we've got some of these small icons
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I'll just go ahead and drag these guys down here. 'Settings' I use fairly often.
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Now I don't use 'Help and Tips'
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I write the help and tips so we're going to 'un-pin' this from 'start'. Now it's gone. It's not here anymore.
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Now let's say that I accidentally un-pinned my settings
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Oops.
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Well what we do is we go down here
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So we go down here and we find settings and we add it back
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Now surprise, surprise there is no settings here. Where did it go? Well that's okay, no problem.
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Settings
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'PC settings', there it is. We just type in the 'search bar' up here, settings, and we just right-click settings and 'Pin to Start'.
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Now we have settings back
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Can move it right back over where we had it before.
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We can now go back down to this arrow
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We can select anything else that we would like to put here. I use the 'calculator' a lot. Let's pin that to the start bar. The calculator is a big one.
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Okay, 'games', I like my games
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So we'll move that over here to a more prominent position.
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We've still got some empty space here
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If I wanted to I could re-size these guys, make them both small, move them down here
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Move this one here.
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As you can see everything just keeps sliding over
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These don't have to be here I can actually just stick this 'travel app' over here
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I simply have it there because that was a more convenient location for it at the time
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However, as that I look through this maybe I don't need some of these items
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Here's 'News'. I don't know that I am going to use that very much.
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Here's 'Documents'
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Here's 'Pictures'
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Now we already have 'Camera' here
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Do I need this
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Here is 'Video'.
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You have to ask yourself that about each of these
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If you don't need them then by all means get rid of them. Let's get rid of news. That's one we're probably never going to use.
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Now we have these functions here
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We can move these folders around a little bit.
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Now we can re-size the game, to be medium
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Now it fills up and everything looks nice.
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It's not the best, but it looks nice
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We can also re-size our 'reading list'. Our reading list won't re-size. Will this one re-size? This one will re-size. Wide.
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So we have that one wide
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Will this one re-size? This one re-sized to wide as well.
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Reading list can go here
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Now we have a perfect little tile screen
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Ladies and gentlemen that is how you move around and reset and adjust the tiles on your screen. Thank you for choosing VisiHow and have a great day.
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