Don't agree with the default sizes? No problem. One of the first things you'll notice on the Windows 8 Start screen is that some of the app tiles are twice as wide as others. To get to this option, simply choose the Settings charm from the Start screen, Change PC settings, Personalise, and then Start screen.
Now, the selection can truly be considered artistic.
The milder options are still available, but now you have 20 total tattoos to choose from, with some real doozies among them, some sporting flowers, planets, gears, guitars, or creatures. Prior to the arrival of Windows 8 RTM, you could grace the background of your Start screen tiles with a few mild patterns, but with RTM, the choices for these "tattoos" exploded into phantasmagorias of design and colour. Note that your colour choice also affects the charms, your tattoo choice, and even the Windows logo itself, which has been redesigned to be colour-agnostic. With Release Preview, Windows 8 offers 25 different colour combinations for your Start screen – enough for every taste. The only default choices for this in RTM were Weather and Calendar.įrom its first pre-release version, Windows 8 offered a few background and foreground colour combinations for the Start screen, and this is the first choice you make on your initial run of the OS after installation. You can also specify an app that will display detailed status information on the Lock screen. It isn’t just built-in apps that have the ability to display pithy information on the Lock screen, but third-party apps like Twitter clients and messaging apps can, too. In addition to indicating battery level along with the date and time, it can display useful information such as the number of email messages awaiting you, the current weather, and calendar appointments and reminders. The Lock screen isn't just a static picture waiting for you to log in. To get to this option, simply choose the Settings charm from the Start screen, Change PC settings, Personalise, and then Lock screen. The other appealing options include a honeycomb, a nautilus, a piano keyboard, train tracks in a city, and prisms of colour.
The default is a Seattle scene showing the Space Needle, a mountain, and a green hill. Windows 8 RTM has six cool choices for this. Let the first thing you see be something you love. This is a familiar concept for smartphone users, but it's a new one for PCs. The first thing you see when you power up your Windows 8 PC or tablet is the Lock screen.
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