Windows 8.1: The Missing Manual

Uninstalling a TileWorld App

Installing a TileWorld app, as you now know, is infinitely simpler and faster than installing a desktop app. And there’s more good news: Getting rid of a TileWorld app is also much easier.

GEM IN THE ROUGH: Multiple Monitors—Two Worlds

If you’re lucky enough to have a second monitor connected to your PC, you might say to yourself: “Hey, self! Think how cool this could be! I could have TileWorld on one screen, and a Windows desktop app on the other! Best of both worlds!”

You’re absolutely right.

Connect your second monitor to your computer’s video output jack, whatever it may be (HDMI cable or VGA cable, maybe).

When everything’s powered up, both screens show TileWorld. But that’s about to change.

Open the Charms bar. Choose Devices, and then “Second screen.” Now you see icons representing the various ways Windows can handle the second screen: “PC screen only” (meaning turn off the second monitor), “Duplicate” (mirror the same image on both screens), “Extend” (use the second monitor as an extension of the main one’s area), and “Second screen only” (turn off the main screen).

What you want is Extend. The screens go black for a moment, and then boom: The second monitor now shows the desktop. Using the Desktop tile, you can flip the main screen back and forth between TileWorld (or a TileWorld app) and the desktop.

If you like, you can adjust resolution or swap the screen images using the desktop Control Panel, as described on File Explorer.

Amazing.

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