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However, by pinning desktop apps to the start menu, then resizing them to small, there is room in the start menu for all of the apps I use, whereas classic shell and start10 menus don’t have enough space available to get all of my apps in the start menu. Re the post: No, I don’t have any use for live tiles either. Caveat: for the sake of privacy and performance, check custom installation when offered and uncheck every option that compromises privacy, then use Spybot Anti-Beacon and W10privacy to control telemetry and automatic updates.
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I had unsolvable driver issues on 2 pcs when I did a clean install, but both worked fine after simply allowing microsoft to update them to W10.
Those who do like them can use them, those who don’t really have a use for them can just switch live tiles off.
Not to mention the Store one that magically keeps changing to a live tile even though it’s turned off.īut, generally live tiles aren’t such a problem. are coloured and the colours can’t be changed to match your theme, which is just stupid and annoying. Most of the built-in tiles are theme coloured, but some like OneNote, Office apps, Dual SIM Phone/Messaging tiles, etc.
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And also the notifications are way too unreliable, I often find I have a new email sat in the inbox that the notification centre didn’t tell me about.ĭesktop tile colours aren’t too bad anymore, but the colours on Windows Phone tiles annoy me.
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As it stands I think the Windows 10 Notification Centre needs to be more prominent for missed notifications than just having an icon on the taskbar that changes colour (as it’s too easily missed, especially with an auto-hide taskbar). However, with a good notification centre I probably wouldn’t even use those two. Other than them, I have all my live tiles turned off as I find things flashing and constantly changing extremely irritating.
Email displays the number of new emails and calendar shows upcoming calendar events. I use two live tiles and that’s Email and Calendar. While that would certainly improve the appeal of live tiles, it would not make me use them. This would then be similar to how desktop gadgets worked back in the days when they were still supported by Windows natively. Live tiles could become more attractive to users if Microsoft would untie them from the start menu allowing users to place them on the desktop directly. Microsoft revealed interactive tiles back in 2014 but has not launched the feature yet and it was generally assumed that the company decided against implementing it.īasically, what they do is add an interactive element to live tiles, for instance an option to expand the view area of a tile to display additional information, or a field that you can use to find information or files directly from the live tile.Įven with these changes, and it is not clear if those are the ones that Microsoft will reveal, it won't really change my view of live tiles on the desktop. The Live Tile suggestions that have received the most upvotes in the Windows Feedback application are transparent tiles and interactive tiles. The description of the session on the channel 9 website highlights that "two highly-requested surprises" are coming to Live Tiles. Microsoft announced recently that a few surprises are coming to live tiles and toast notifications on Windows 10, and that it will reveal what is in store during the Build 2016 Developer Conference which is held in San Francisco from March 30 to April 1.
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While you can switch to a Windows 8 start screen like interface to make them display all the time, it makes little sense doing so on desktop systems in my opinion.