Turning Off a Live Tile
As we mentioned earlier, the Start screen offers a kind of aerial view of what’s happening in your life, and it does this by displaying live content—called tile notifications—on many of the tiles. That seems like a good idea in theory, but much of that live content is not static. For example, if you have multiple email messages waiting for you, the Mail tile continuously flips through previews of each unread message. Similarly the News and Finance tiles constantly flip through several screens of content.
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If you’d like to see no live content for a minute or two, you can temporarily turn off all live tiles. From the ...
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