Windows 10: Windows 10 is likely to get a new Start menu without live tiles

The glory days of live tiles, which was first introduced with metro-style Windows Phone 7, are over.

By default, Start menu contains about two dozen live tiles that continuously pull information in real-time, but many of those live tiles are not displaying anything useful. While live tiles are great on smartphones and tablets, most desktop users prefer going straight to the old-style desktop UI.

After the demise of Windows Mobile, Microsoft has completely stopped updating live tiles experience on Windows 10. While live tiles are supported by third-party apps such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, none of those live tiles are displaying anything useful.

Live tile is on life support and Microsoft hasn’t updated the feature in Windows 10 in a long while.

If the rumours are believed to be true, Windows 10’s Start menu could be getting a cluster of inert icons representing apps and games in the future. The redesigned Start menu would be similar to Windows 10X’s Start menu, but the UI will be tailored for desktops.

People familiar with the development told us that Microsoft is planning to replace live tiles with icons in a future update after Windows 10’s 20H2 release.

Last year, Windows 10’s leaked build offered an interesting clue into the company’s plans for the operating system’s Start menu. The leaked preview build dispensed with the “Live Tiles” menu approach currently seen in Windows 10, which is updated frequently to show information such as Weather and Calendar events.



We’re expecting Windows 10’s live tiles to go away at some point in 2020/2021, possibly with Windows 10’s 2021 update since 20H2 is said to be a minor release and hints could drop in the preview builds later this year.

It’s worth noting that Microsoft has already started updating its Windows 10 apps with colourful icons ahead of the new Start menu update.

The plans are subject to change, but we wouldn’t be surprised if Live Tiles eventually fade away as most users don’t engage with Live Tiles on their Start Menu.

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Live tiles not working on my new laptop

Hi,



Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. I will certainly help you with this.



I appreciate if you could answer few questions to narrow down the issue and to provide you better assistance.

• Does this issue persist with all the Live tiles icon?
• Are you able to view the different app’s tiles icon on Start menu?

I suggest you to try the below given steps and check if issue gets resolved:

• Press the Windows key to open the Start menu.
• Right click on the Tiles and click “turn live tile on”.
• Repeat step 2 on the desired tiles.

Please post back with the results and the information asked, we will be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.

 

Windows 10 Start Menu all apps / tiles missing


So I woke my computer up from sleep last night and this is what I was welcomed with:




All of a sudden my start menu had no apps listed and no live tiles to speak of. So I did my googleing and I found this microsoft answer page: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...0-b988cd6da49a

I tried every step in their. After all said and done, I got installed programs to show up, but the live tiles that usually show to the right did not come back. I was ok with that, thinking I would work on this today and find a solution to that problem.

I just woke up the computer again from sleep and the start menu is blank AGAIN. Before this started happening last night, I have not installed any new software nor has windows ran any updates.

I'm at a loss. I tried system recovery and to roll back to a few days prior, but I keep getting an error after recovery is attempted stating that windows recovery wasn't able to fully complete due to a certain file (i can retry recovery and post picture of error if needed).

So any suggestions on whats my next step? I thought maybe I had a malware issue, but II have avast and malware antibytes installed and they showed no hits when the scans where run.

Any suggestions or guidance is greatly appreciated. Hope you all have a Great Turkey Day!

PS, I have to work today from 4pm to 6am, so If I do not reply right away I apologize.

 

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