#Custom live tiles windows 10 windows 10#
Pin more tiles, enable/disable app list, most used apps, and other settingsīy default, Windows 10 allows three regular square tiles, or a wide tile and a regular tile, or four small square tiles to be aligned together side by side in one column. If the live tile is already off, you can see Turn live tile on instead. Just right-click on a Microsoft Store app and select More > Turn live tile off. Fortunately, live tiles can be turned off. They can even overwhelm if you have a lot of tiles on your start menu. But like widgets on Android, live tiles too are a sucker for battery and can also consume a minimal amount of data in updating the information. Something that widgets do on other platforms such as Android. Tiles, especially the larger ones have enough space to display relevant or essential information in real time. One of the advantages of having tiles over icons is live tiles. Although, tiles for apps that are not from the Microsoft Store can only be resized to Small or Medium. Windows 10 allows four different sizes of tiles – Small, Medium, Wide, and Large.In order to do so, you’ll have to right-click on the tile that you want to resize.Windows 10 does allow users to resize tiles though. This is usually how any OS indicates that something can be resized. Because if you hover your mouse over the edge of a tile, the cursor doesn’t change. Click and drag up and down or right and left depending upon the edge you’re holding onto with the cursor.Īt first, it may seem like the tiles have a fixed size.
Hover your mouse over to the edge of the Start menu, so your cursor looks like a double-sided arrow.Click on the start button or press the Windows key.