Windows® 8.1 Absolute Beginner’s Guide

3. Organizing the Start Screen

In This Chapter

• Working with tiles

• Resizing tiles

• Adding tiles to the Start screen

• Working with groups

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 ...