Create, Organize, Name, Tile Groups on Start Screen in Windows 8

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Over time you may find that your Windows 8 Start Screen may end up displaying a lot of tiles, making it look cluttered and difficult to find program shortcuts. There is no way to display yet smaller size of the tiles. But Windows 8 offers an easy way to group these program shortcuts, so that finding them becomes a lot easier. If you indeed do have many tiles on your start screen, grouping the tiles would be a matter of good-housekeeping to.

Group Tiles on Windows 8 Start Screen

If you wish to group the tiles, you will have to first move the desired tiles on the start screen and club them separately.

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Having done this, move your cursor to the bottom right corner and click on the “-” icon. This will minimize the icons and zoom out the start screen.

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Now right-click on the group of icons you wish to club together and name as a group. At the bottom, you will see the option to Name Group.

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Click on it and in the dialog box which appear, enter the name and click on Name.

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You will see th tiles clubbed together in a group. here I have clubbed 4 tiles together and named it as TWC.

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You could similarly create more than one group, as per your requirement.

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Anand aka HappyAndyK is an end-user Windows enthusiast, a Microsoft MVP in Windows Desktop Experience since 2007, and the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, TheGeeksClub.com & WinVistaClub.com. Creating a System Restore Point before trying out a new software or a tweak is always recommended.

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