Wouldn’t you love to have this option in your Windows 8 Start screen? Last October I explained to how to shut down Windows 8—a subject you wouldn’t think would require its own how-to guide. And yet.

If you are looking for a way to pin your favorite website’s shortcut or tile to the Windows 8.1 Start Screen, this post will show you how to do it for Internet Explorer 11. Things were easier on ...

Windows 8 is not always great at generating Start tiles for installed software. OblyTile is a small program that generates better-looking tiles and automatically installs them on your Start page. One ...

Hey Windows users, if you are looking for a quick way to connect to GeekWire’s latest news, check out our new live tile for Windows 8.1. If you are using Windows 8.1/IE 11, when you visit “pin to ...

Update: Flipboard’s Windows 8.1 app is now live in the Windows store. Flipboard is expanding its reach and will now be available for Windows 8.1. Launching today, the magazine app comes with Live Tile ...

The Pictures app tile on Windows 8.1 Start Screen displays pictures, photographs or images. In this post, we will see how to disable live tile, display one specific photo or show only selected images ...

Microsoft today announced a plan to make Windows 8 users a little bit happier. To put it mildly, the Windows 8 design has been controversial. Instead of a traditional PC desktop user interface, ...