Windows 10: Tile windows from current desktop and/or screen.

A picture is worth a thousand words: In this image, I have selected the action from Task Bar right-button menu to "Show windows stacked". As you can see, there is empy space allocated for windows that aren't displayed. The reason for this is that such windows are placed in a different virtual desktop, and therefor the area that they occupy is taken there. However the calculation does involve all of them at once: - How many windows? - Split screen display in such many of them. - Resize windows to take such area. While this looks like a unnoticed side effect of implementing virtual desktop

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how do i reset the start menu in windows 10 to not show tiles?

A few days ago, my friends Win10 computer stopped showing his desktop and now only shows the tiles (he wants to see the default list of programs, not any tiles).

Clicking on the Windows key or "start menu" doesn't change anything. I stepped him through some online suggestions (including Settings/Start/Use-start-full-screen and making sure Settings/Table-mode was not engaged) but they don't work.

I've also compared his settings (Start/Use-start-full... and Table-mode) to my Win10 machine and they are the same.

Assistance/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

How to Create a Desktop Tile on the Windows 10 Start Screen

Changing to the Tablet mode is not the answer. It leads to other problems.

There are 4 ways to get to the Desktop without having a tile for it on the start screen.

• Click the space on the extreme far right on the taskbar. That takes you to the Desktop.
• Press Win-D and the Desktop will appear, no matter where you are.
• Press Win-M and the Desktop will appear as well.
• When on the Start screen, click the Start button again. It will take you to the Desktop or the website that is open.

If you really miss that Desktop Tile, create one using the TileCreator App. Instructions for how to do this are on Windows Central website here....

http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-custom-start-tiles-tilecreator

You must know the path to the desktop to set up a Desktop tile. I believe Redit provided this, can't remember, but this is what it is...
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C "C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Shows Desktop.lnk".
Look in your C: drive Users folder to see what name you are using. Then insert it, without the brackets ([...]).

In the config file for TileCreator put this in front of the path, on the same line...
Desktop: Like this.

Desktop:C:\Windows\System. . . . .




Find an appropriate image to use for the tile on your computer, or screen capture one that you like. Mine is a handgun, Glock or 45. It can be anything you wish.

After you have set up your config file for TileCreator, run TileCreator, put in the title and the key word (Desktop), and select your desktop image, then click Pin. Find the tile on your Start screen list of apps, and pin it to Start. Done.

Now you will have 5 ways to get to the Desktop. Too bad MS did not provide a simple way to create new tiles for the Start Screen, but the FileCreator seems to work just fine.

I missed my Desktop tile, and went searching for the solution. Thanks to those that provided the solution. This is the great part about the Internet. Love it.

 

How to Create a Desktop Tile on the Windows 10 Start Screen

Cool one, but what about it changing the desktop background as we change it is Personalization?