Re: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

[Glen Harvy]

Hi Damon, Thanks for your response but I think you missed the point of my post. On a blank first time install of Win8 Pro there are 50 Microsoft Apps tiles displayed on the All Apps window. I have only installed Total Commander which has added 2 more tiles. I'm pretty sure that my application will add a minimum of 5 more. I have over 70 icons/shortcuts on my Win7 Desktop. The mind boggles as to how many tiles I'll have on one screen if/when I upgrade to Win8. I can't believe that I am doing this right and MS really expects me (the end user) to get used to it. My immediate thoughts are to spend a day writing a Metro style desktop app so the end user has just one point of entry to my program/sub-programs and that app will be pinned to the Start Window. I don't really have a problem with this either - sounds rather a good idea. But is it necessary? Do you think that is a good idea or am I missing something? Glen.   On 21/08/2012 3:15 PM, Damon Pollard wrote: Start > Right Click > All Apps > Click the button [-] in the bottom right corner. This will bring up a 'Directory' listing of all the installed Apps > Click the category (your program) you want and it will jump to the set of programs you want. As for the creating icons etc. I have no idea ;) Damon Pollard On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Glen Harvy <g...@aquarius.com.au> wrote: Hi Shielas and Fellas, Installing an application in Win8 results in my desktop applications 3 "sub - programs" being included as tiles/links on the Win8 Start Screen whilst the main programs tile/link doesn't get included on the Start Screen at all. I believe I can fix this by pinning the main programs link to the Start 'Menu' and ensuring the sub-programs are unpinned to the Start Screen. The main program still appears on the Desktop Screen but to locate the sub-programs will mean they are located on another screen that will in effect hold possibly hundreds of other sub-programs as well. There has been some discussion regarding creating a dedicated Metro Style application that would do nothing else but act as a launch-pad for the Main and sub-programs. I appreciate that eventually programs will be re-written to accommodate Win8 however this won't happen for years. I'm not to certain that the current Win8 format with regards to sub-programs will survive the test of time either. In the interim, what are you doing to make your multi-program application 'fit' into Win8 as seamlessly as possible. Also, how does one create and add a reasonably decent 'Tile' to hold the applications icon? I would have thought all the above would have been discussed to death by now but I can't find much via Google - probably because I'm using the wrong search terms! Regards, Glen.