Page 64 - Windows 10 May 2019 Update The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box

Some tiles are live tiles—tiny dashboards that display real-time

information. There, on the Mail tile, you see the subject lines of the past
few incoming messages; there, on the Calendar tile, is your next
appointment; and so on.

It has to be said, though: A Start menu filled with blinky, scrolling icons

can look like Times Square at midnight. If you’re feeling quite caffeinated
enough already, you might prefer your live tiles to be a little more…dead.

To silence the animation of a live tile, right-click it. (Touchscreen: Hold

your finger down on it, and then tap .) From the shortcut menu, choose
More, and then choose “Turn live tile off.” The tile’s current information

disappears, and the live updating stops. To reverse the procedure, right-click
an unmoving tile; from the shortcut menu, choose More and then “Turn live
tile on.”

Remove a tile

Open the Start menu. Right-click the tile you want to eliminate.
(Touchscreen: Hold your finger down on it, and then tap the button.)
From the shortcut menu, choose Unpin from Start. You’re not discarding

that item—just removing its tile.

Group your tiles

The Start menu’s tiles aren’t scattered pell-mell; they present an attractive,

orderly mosaic. Not only are they mathematically nestled, but they’re
actually grouped. Each cluster of related tiles can bear a name, like “Life at
a glance” (Calendar, Mail, Weather…) or “Play and explore” (games,
music, TV…).