Now right-click the shortcut and 'Pin to start'. To give this exercise extra purpose, you could right-click the shortcut to SnippingGuy, select Properties, Advanced and tick ‘Run as administrator’. My reasoning was so that I could find it more easily later. Right-click, select New –> Shortcut, type SnippingTool (all one word) in the dialog box. The desktop is a good place to create your shortcut. Plan A: Create a Shortcut to the Snipping Tool ‘Pin to Start’, just as you would an App. Plan B: Use the Metro Search to find your shortcut. Plan B: Copy your shortcut to this specific folder.Ĭ:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs. Right-click your shortcut – Pin to start. The desktop is a good place to start, e.g SnippingTool. 
Plan A: Create an old-fashioned Windows shortcut to your program Furthermore, if you cannot make a Windows 8 tile from this outline, then you have my detailed notes below. If I say to you: ‘this is not a easy task’, then it may explain why I divided the task into three stages. How to Create a Windows 8 Metro-style Tile From Scratch
Press WinKey, and return to the Metro UI you should see a new tile at the very right of the Metro UI, I needed to scroll right in order to see my ‘Snipping Tool’. Now you should be able to see the ‘Pin to Start’ icon at the very bottom right of the screen. When your app appears in the results, right-click this should induce a white tick. Type the first few letters of the App that you want to create a tile, for example, I typed ‘sn’ for Snipping Tool. The easiest way to display a program’s tile is to right-click an app, then select ‘Pin to Start’ from the bottom right of the screen. Regard this exercise as preparaton for the main event of creating a new tile in the Windows 8 Metro UI. Troubleshooting Creating a Windows 8 Metro Tile. The purpose of this page is to show you how to create a new tile for your Windows 8 Metro-style UI. 
What you see after you sign in is a matrix of tiles, many displaying information which updates as you scan the display.
How to Make a New Tile for Your New User InterfaceĪs you may know, Microsoft’s Windows 8 features a new User Interface.
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