Clear Your Private Information

One of the benefits of the Windows 8 Start screen is that it uses live tiles that display constantly updated information. This includes newly received e-mail and instant messages, the current music you are playing, the photo slide show you are playing, and the latest information from the Weather and Finance apps. However, this can be a privacy problem because anyone walking by your tablet can see this information with a quick glance. To prevent this, you can temporarily clear all your private information from the Start screen tiles.

Clear Your Private Information

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