Windows 8.1 Start Screen has all the same basic components as Windows 8, as it's filled with square tiles that serve as shortcuts to both traditional desktop apps and new-style "Windows Store" apps that only run in the operating system's full-screen, Modern UI. As with Windows 8, many of these tiles can be set to serve as Live Tiles, which show a preview of what you can expect to see within the app. For example, the built-in Bing News app shows headlines and the Bing Food & Drink app shows a featured recipe on its tile, but clicking the tiles takes you to the home screen of the app, which may or may not contain the content you saw on the tile. For example, when the news tile said "Photos of the week" and we clicked it, we got a screen with a different headline and could not find a photos of the week story even after scrolling several screens to the right.
Windows 8.1 Review Start Screen 2With Windows 8.1, users have a lot more options for customizing the Start screen. Where tiles only came in two sizes in Windows 8, users can now select from wide, medium, large and small. We particularly appreciated the new, large-size tiles, which allow for more information in the previews, showing large images in the photo gallery tile and displaying three headlines instead of one in the Bing News tile. Reordering tiles is also easier than in Windows 8. Rather than moving one tile at a time, we were able to select as many as we wanted through control clicking and dragging them around the screen, even creating custom groups of apps.
Windows 8.1Microsoft has tried its best to keep the Start screen pristine. On a clean install, the screen contains shortcuts to 19 preloaded apps, including the Mail app, the People app, the Windows Store, Bing News, the Camera app, SkyDrive and Internet Explorer.
When you install a new app, it doesn't automatically appear on the Start screen, but rather only on the all-apps menu, which is now available if you click the down arrow from the Start screen or swipe up. As with Windows 8, you can add any Modern or desktop app to the Start screen by right- clicking (or long-pressing) it and selecting Pin to Start.
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