3. Organizing the Start Screen

In This Chapter

Working with tiles

Resizing tiles

Adding tiles to the Start screen

Working with groups

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Because the Start screen serves as your dashboard to access the many features and applications contained with Windows 8, you will likely want to spend some time organizing and customizing how it looks. There are endless possibilities of tile arrangements now that Microsoft allows four tile sizes. You can also name organized groups of tiles, or applications, utilizing logical labels.

Organizing All Those Tiles

In Chapter 1, “Your First Hour with Windows,” you had a quick introduction to the Start screen ...

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