Friday, August 16, 2013

Organize Windows 8 Start Screen


Once you start adding a lot of apps, your Windows 8 Start Screen can start looking a little crowded and without ye olde traditional Windows Start Menu, it can sometimes be hard to find things. Lets look at how we can categorize and straighten things up a little bit.
Let’s group apps together by category. That might make it a little easier to find things. If you’re using a touch screen device, select the app you want to move by pressing down and holding on the tile and pulling down slightly. If you’re using a mouse, just click and drag. We’re going to move each tile yuo select to the empty area at the far right of you Start Screen. When you drag the tile, it will appear translucent.
As you pull the individual tiles to the empty area, they should all group together. Here I’ve selected a Kindle app, The OverDrive app that allows me to read library books and my Adobe Reader to form a category of apps used for reading.