Introduction
Windows 8 comes with many features and a
better look & feel for user interaction in applications; one of the features is
the Metro start screen. It contains a number of application tiles on the screen,
most of which are usually not needed to be shown. When you first get
started with Windows 8, you will be moving around the application tiles in the
Metro Start Screen. You might also want to remove some or most of them. Even if
you decide to keep all the default tiles, you will still accommodate junk tiles
from apps that you install and having to delete them one by one isn't going to
make your day any productive. Deleting multiple tiles at once is not difficult;
all you need to do is hold down the Ctrl key as you select apps. Apps are
selected by right-clicking them and the option on the horizontal bar will change
to accommodate your selections.
Hold down the Ctrl key and start
right-clicking the tiles; a checkmark will appear on each tile that you select.
In some cases holding down the Ctrl key is not necessary. You can hit the escape
key to remove all selections or you can right-click an app again, while still
holding the Ctrl key to unselect that one app tile. When you select just one the app, several options appear on the horizontal bar (at the bottom of the screen),
but when you select several apps, the options are limited to just two:
Unpin from Start and
Clear Selection. Click
Unpin from Start to remove the selected
tiles (this will not uninstall the app), or click
Clear selection to unselected all apps.
Removing application tiles from the Metro
Start Screen
- Here we select Internet Explorer
application tiles for removal from the Metro screen; just right-click with
the mouse.
- Two options will be shown in the
horizontal taskbar: Unpin and Uninstall; click on unpin. screen.
- You will see the application tiles have
been removed from Metro.
Retrieving application tiles from the Metro
Start Screen
- Just click the start button.
- Click on search; all application tiles
will be open.
- Find the application you want to
retrieve.
- Right-click on it; again two options will
be shown on the horizontal taskbar Advance and Pin.
- Click on the pin. Now you will see your
application tiles have been retrieved on the Metro screen.
Summary
In this article, we learned about Remove and Retrieve Application Tiles in Windows 8.