{"id":6362,"date":"2013-11-06T20:31:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2013-11-06T20:31:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:31:03","slug":"unsquish-your-windows-8-1-start-screen-tiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/unsquish-your-windows-8-1-start-screen-tiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsquish Your Windows 8.1 Start Screen Tiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tip for Windows 8.1 users.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve upgraded you may have found that your Start Screen tiles may have been squished down a bit depending upon your screen resolution.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6364\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Squished-Windows-8.1-Start-Screen-Tiles-Small.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6364\" class=\" wp-image-6364 \" title=\"Squished Windows 8.1 Start Screen Tiles (Small)\" alt=\"Squished Windows 8.1 Start Screen Tiles (Small)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Squished-Windows-8.1-Start-Screen-Tiles-Small-1024x640.png?resize=614%2C384\" width=\"614\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Squished-Windows-8.1-Start-Screen-Tiles-Small.png?resize=1024%2C640&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Squished-Windows-8.1-Start-Screen-Tiles-Small.png?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Squished-Windows-8.1-Start-Screen-Tiles-Small.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Squished Windows 8.1 Start Screen Tiles (Small)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This can be a bit annoying if you want to use all of the screen real estate so there is an easy way to expand the tiles to use the screen.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to the Start Screen,<\/li>\n<li>Swipe in from the right or hit <strong>Windows + C<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Settings<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Tiles<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Enable the option to\u00a0<strong>Enable more tiles<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_6365\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Unsquished-Windows-8.1-Start-Screen-Tiles-Small.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6365\" class=\" wp-image-6365 \" alt=\"Unsquished Windows 8.1 Start Screen Tiles (Small)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Unsquished-Windows-8.1-Start-Screen-Tiles-Small-1024x640.png?resize=614%2C384\" width=\"614\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Unsquished-Windows-8.1-Start-Screen-Tiles-Small.png?resize=1024%2C640&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Unsquished-Windows-8.1-Start-Screen-Tiles-Small.png?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Unsquished-Windows-8.1-Start-Screen-Tiles-Small.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unsquished Windows 8.1 Start Screen Tiles (Small)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once done you should notice that your tiles fill up more of screen so long as your resolution supports it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tip for Windows 8.1 users. If you&#8217;ve upgraded you may have found that your Start Screen tiles may have been squished down a bit depending upon your screen resolution. This can be a bit annoying if you want to use all of the screen real estate so there is an easy way &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/unsquish-your-windows-8-1-start-screen-tiles\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,151,18,1374],"tags":[2146],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-technology","category-windows-8","tag-windows-8-1","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Windows-8-Logo.png?fit=468%2C468&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}