From the pop-up menu, hover your mouse over the Resize option and select a new size from small, medium, large, or wide.
At the Windows 10 tiled screen, right-click on a tile.
However, it seems Microsoft is going the other way and Live Tiles may eventually be removed. Just like in Windows 8 and 8.1, you can resize specific tiles in Windows 10 to make them larger or smaller. Windows 10 is a nice-looking OS, but it is also one that does not have a load of first-party customization. One possible way to breath new life into Live Tiles would be to allow users to put them on the desktop. Furthermore, Microsoft has hardly been showing much development love to the feature in recent years. While Live Tiles are a nice idea, users are not spending enough time in the Start menu to care about customizing them. It certainly makes sense to remove them from Windows Lite to create a lighter experience.
Perhaps the company will eventually remove Live Tiles entirely from Windows 10. Internal documentation shows the company has been monitoring Windows use and found many users are not customizing Live Tiles in the Start menu. In related news, folks at Windows Central have shared a simple guide to remove Live Tiles section from the Windows 10 Start menu. I found out that when the email arrives, the live tile doesn’t show anything and I did not receive any notification. I used the mail app included in the start menu and imported my outlook account.
I kind of hope we get something better.Another interesting aspect of Windows Lite is that it will not run full PC programs but will support any app from the Windows Store.Ī report from Windows Central today suggests the platform will also remove Live Tiles, another differentiator next to full Windows 10. I recently updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10. If you go through and remove / hide / deny access to program groups that have items pinned to the Start Menu you can create a Start Menu without any tiles. They were never really utilized to their potential. I'm not going to miss the tiles, they took up a lot of space, they were more difficult to organize than just some icons, and just generally felt clunky. The only other moderately useful Tile was the mail one, and really I just open my mail because I want to see everything. It was only an additional click to get to a website that not only told me the current weather, but gave me radar, an idea of what the weather for the day was going to be, and a forecast for the next few days. Windows 10’s Start Menu is a combination of the old and new world with the classical start menu at the left and the modern start screen on the right. Sure I could open my start menu and see the weather at the moment, but I rarely look at the weather for the moment.
It wasn't that I didn't like them, but with the infinite power of a full PC with the internet at my disposal and all the information of the world at my fingertips, Live Tiles were inadequate. Press the button in the lower-right corner, and you’ll have access to the other options, including resize, live tile, pin/unpin from taskbar, and uninstall (available under more options). However, using Windows 8, 8.1, and 10, I never really used the Live Tiles as more than a shortcut. I loved my Windows phone and Live Tiles were a big part of that. I always thought the Live Tiles made sense for a few applications.