Wouldn’t you love to have this option in your Windows 8 Start screen? Last October I explained to how to shut down Windows 8—a subject you wouldn’t think would require its own how-to guide. And yet.

Windows 8 is not always great at generating Start tiles for installed software. OblyTile is a small program that generates better-looking tiles and automatically installs them on your Start page. One ...

The Pictures app tile on Windows 8.1 Start Screen displays pictures, photographs or images. In this post, we will see how to disable live tile, display one specific photo or show only selected images ...

Microsoft today announced a plan to make Windows 8 users a little bit happier. To put it mildly, the Windows 8 design has been controversial. Instead of a traditional PC desktop user interface, ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is once again planning to alter the way its Start Screen works in ...