Win11 tile configuration
My computer has recently been upgraded to win11. The beautification scheme I used before was to move all the icons on the desktop to the full-screen menu in the start menu of win10, and paste them in a row with tiles. Every time you want to access a file, go to the start menu instead of putting it on the desktop, so that the desktop can also be free to enjoy the wallpaper. Refer to the configuration link: How to make the Windows 10 system desktop look better? - Zhihu (zhihu.com)
But the biggest impact on me after upgrading to win11 is that there is no full-screen desktop and tile functions at all. So I searched for a lot of solutions, added some improvements of my own, and finally restored the desktop tiles as shown in the picture above. A desktop that you like to look at will still be of great help to improve productivity.
Software installation: start11
First of all, the operation of restoring the start menu is inseparable from the start11 software. He made the start menu of win11 have a full-screen menu option, and also supports custom tiles on it. Although it occasionally takes a few seconds to restart when adjusting the tile position, most of the time it is fine.
Genuine software is a free trial, welcome to pay to support the original author. Or adopt the same scheme of the blogger:
Link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1HY0WuV7ynlXdBI7qfuWZzg?pwd=1fru
Extraction code: 1fru
– share from Baidu Netdisk super member V2
start11 configuration
First of all, if it is configured according to the tile method of the blogger, you must choose "win10 configuration". Or if you think other styles are also good, you can choose. And ENABLE start11.
Click "Configuration Menu" to configure as follows:
In "Custom Menu Visual Appearance", you can set the color, transparency, etc. of the full-screen menu. For example, I use a frosted glass style with a certain transparency.
Then set how to open start11 in the "Control" column to ensure that it can be opened:
Then, click on the win icon to open the full screen menu.
tile configuration
For most software, as long as you right-click-pin to the start screen/pin to start11, you can see the tile just pasted in the full-screen menu.
If the paste fails, you can try the following methods:
- Right-click the shortcut, click "Open file location", and then try to pin the .exe file of the file to the start screen.
- Try again and again, as there may be some delay. You can unpin it again and wait a while to see if the start menu appears.
Then you can manually group the tiles (move them to adjacent positions), adjust the tile background color, adjust the tile size (there are four options: small square, medium square, rectangle, and large square), and adjust the tile layout position.
Image tile configuration
Here is the most free-flowing part. High emotional intelligence: free play. Low EQ: It is very troublesome to do it yourself.
Before win10, there was a shortcut tool that could input custom pictures, crop them according to the desired format and automatically output them in the full-screen menu, called Tile Genie.
But it doesn't seem to work in start11. I tried to export image blocks that cannot be displayed, so I had to give up this method. If the reader's Tile Genie has no problem and can display pictures normally, that's great, and you don't need to read the following content.
If the export fails... the method I take is to manually crop the fixed image. It's dumb, but it works.
First, crop the picture by yourself, the calculation formula is: medium square 150*150, rectangle 306*150, large square 306*306, and the boundary line is 6 (pixels).
The image cropping method I use is: Free online cropping image files (iloveimg.com)
Then find a suitable place to store the exported pictures. Note that after pasting the tiles, these pictures cannot be moved or modified.
Right-click in the full-screen menu - fix the file, select the file path to add.
Just fixed it in this form:
Then right click - resize and adjust to the desired size.
In the last step, right click - icon - select custom tile image, select this file again, and then it will be displayed in full screen as an icon.
The file name can be right-click-rename-enter a space and press Enter.
If this set of processes has been done too much, it would be more convenient to write a script to automatically select the appropriate cropping method for the picture to automatically output the picture, or even automatically import it into the start menu like Tile Genie. It's a pity that bloggers don't know how and are lazy.
The effect after the blogger is completed is as follows:
If you move frequently used files to the full-screen menu, and then hide system icons such as My Computer and Trash, you can truly make the desktop empty.
Hope to help you~