How To Personalizing Windows 8

Windows presents a lot of unlike ways to personalize the await together with experience of your system, together with this chapter teaches you lot to a greater extent than or less of the ways you lot tin create this.

In This Chapter

• Personalizing the Start Screen
• Personalizing the Lock Screen
• Changing Your Account Picture
• Configuring Other Windows Settings
• Using the Traditional Control Panel
• Setting Up Additional Accounts

When you lot get-go plough on your novel reckoner system, you lot encounter the Windows Start covert equally Microsoft (or your reckoner manufacturer) laid it upwards for you. If you lot similar the means it looks, great. If not, you lot tin alter it.
Windows presents a lot of unlike ways to personalize the await together with experience of your system. In fact, 1 of the groovy things most Windows is how speedily you lot tin brand Windows await similar your version of Windows, unlike from anybody else’s.

Personalizing the Start Screen

Let’s start yesteryear learning how to configure your ain personal Start screen. As you lot know, the Start screen, shown inwards Figure 5.1, is your ain personal abode base of operations inwards Windows 8; it consists of a divulge of tiles that you lot travel to opened upwards apps together with files. You tin alter the background coloring of the start screen, too equally create upwards one's hear which tiles are displayed—and how.

 The Windows 8 Start screen.

Changing the Background Color

When you lot configured Windows when you lot get-go turned on your novel computer, you lot were asked to select a coloring scheme. This coloring scheme is what you lot encounter when you lot display the Windows Start screen.
Fortunately, you’re non locked into your initial choice. You tin alter the coloring scheme for your Start covert (and diverse subsidiary screens) at whatever time. Just follow these steps:

1. Display the Charms Bar together with click or tap Settings to display the Settings panel.
2. Click or tap Change PC Settings to display the PC Settings page,
   
   
   
   
   
   2. Personalizing the Start covert coloring scheme.
      
   3. Click or tap Personalize inwards the left column.
   4. Click or tap Start Screen inwards the correct panel.
   5. Drag the background coloring slider to the coloring you lot want.
   6. Click or tap the desired background pattern.
   That’s it. The changes you lot brand are immediate together with interactive. You don’t accept to “save” them; they’re applied automatically.
   

   Making a Tile Larger or Smaller

   The Start covert is composed of dozens of private tiles, each representing an app, program, operation, or file. There are several ways to personalize the Start covert yesteryear changing how these tiles are displayed.
   For instance, tiles tin endure either one- or two-column width. To alter the width of a given tile, follow these steps:
   1. Right-click the tile (or press together with concord it on a touchscreen) you lot wishing to change. This adds a depository fiscal establishment gibe grade to the tile together with displays the pop-up bar at the bottom of the screen
   
   
   
   
   
   
   1. Changing the size of the Video tile.
      
   2. Click or tap Smaller to brand a large tile smaller; click or tap Larger to brand a pocket-size tile larger.

   Rearranging Tiles

   If you lot don’t similar where a given tile appears on the Start screen, you lot tin rearrange the lodge of your tiles. To movement a tile, travel your mouse (or, on a touchscreen display, your finger) to click together with drag a given tile to a novel position.
   

   Removing a Tile

   You mightiness discovery that at that spot are 1 or to a greater extent than tiles on your Start covert that you lot never use. You tin withdraw unused tiles to choke them out of your means together with brand room for additional tiles. Follow these steps:
   
3. Right-click the tile (or press together with concord it on a touchscreen) you lot wishing to delete. This adds a depository fiscal establishment gibe grade to the tile together with displays the pop-up bar at the bottom of the screen.
4. Click or tap Unpin from Start.

Adding a New Tile

If you lot accidently withdraw a tile from the Start screen, or you lot wishing to add together a tile for an app that isn’t already there, you lot tin create so. To add together a novel tile, follow these steps:

1. Press the Windows cardinal to display the Start screen.
2. Right-click anywhere on the Start covert (or press Windows+Z) to display the Options Bar at the bottom of the screen.
3. Click or tap All Apps.
4. When the Apps covert appears, right-click the detail you lot wishing to add together (or press together with concord it on a touchscreen); this displays the Options Bar at the bottom of the screen
   
   
   
   
   
   4. Adding a novel tile to the Start screen.
      
   5. Click or tap Pin to Start.
   The novel tile appears at the halt of your existing tiles on the Start screen. You tin movement it to a novel seat yesteryear clicking together with dragging it amongst your mouse or finger.
   

   Turning On or Off a Live Tile

   Many tiles are “live,” pregnant that they display the electrical flow data or a selected document for that app. For example, the Weather tile displays the electrical flow conditions conditions; the Photos tile displays a slideshow of photographs stored on your computer.
   To plough off a alive tile—that is, to display the default tile icon—follow these steps:
   Right-click the tile (or press together with concord it on a touchscreen) you lot wishing to change; this adds a depository fiscal establishment gibe grade to the tile together with displays the pop-up bar at the bottom of the screen

1. Turning “off” the alive Weather tile.
   
2. Click or tap Turn Live Tile Off.

To plough on a alive tile, repeat these steps merely select Turn Live Tile On.