Windows 8 remove the tiled interface. Who is a Sysadmin? How to add an app to your Home screen
Tiles - called "live tiles" in Windows Phone - are located on the Windows 8 Start screen and represent desktop programs, web pages, Explorer folders and other objects, including information from some special Metro- applications (more on this a little later).
In the standard format, tiles are simple, opaque rectangles or squares that are automatically arranged in several rows across the home screen.
Touching a tile (or selecting it in any other way) will launch the application or interface associated with that tile. For example, if you click on the Mail tile, the Mail application will open.
What’s more interesting is that many tiles can display information that is dynamically updated in real time, even if the corresponding application is not running. To interact with this information, tiles use various styles of text, images, including the entire tile, and status indications (for example, to indicate the number of unread emails, etc.).
Take the Calendar app, for example. Once synchronized with one or more accounts, it dynamically displays information about upcoming events on the tile. Most often, it is this information that the user is interested in, so there is no longer any need to launch the application and manually search for events in it.
The Mail tile works much the same way, showing up to your five most recent emails in turn, and displaying an icon in the lower right corner indicating the number of unread messages.
There are tiles on which images are displayed. For example, the Desktop tile shows the Desktop background, and the Photos application tile shows a slideshow of photos from your hard drive and various network services.
Of course, tiles can be scaled to make them smaller (square) or larger (rectangular). Square tiles take up less space on the screen and do not look as expressive as larger rectangular ones. But this does not mean that they are not updated. As you can see, the Photos and Weather app tiles show useful updates even in smaller sizes.
How an app responds to scaling is up to the developer, so not all small tiles are that useful. For example, the “Mail” tile does not show any valuable information in a reduced form, and the “Calendar” displays only the current date. And of course, tile updating can simply be turned off, returning them to their original static state.
Apps can offer additional personalization through internal links. You can create a new tile directly from an application so that it opens a specific state of that application. For example, the Weather app allows you to create child tiles for individual cities, and the Mail app allows you to create child tiles for individual folders:
Child tiles are created the same way in all applications that support this feature. Just open the application panel (by right-clicking or activating the top or bottom border of the screen) and select the “Pin to Start” option. A pop-up window will allow you to give the new tile a suitable name.
By the way, child tiles appear in the All Apps list along with the “real” apps, so they can be found by searching.
As soon as you start using Metro apps, the Start screen - an empty field with opaque tiles - magically comes to life. While this screenshot doesn't capture the interesting effect of constantly updating tiles in real time, it does show that a fully usable home screen looks much more vibrant than the original untouched one.
I immediately liked the live tiles in Windows Phone, and the improvements Microsoft has implemented in Windows 8 look very interesting. In this operating system for both PCs and devices, Microsoft offers larger, more expressive tiles with greater personalization options. They're also much brighter because app developers can use their own colors rather than being limited to a preset accent color like Windows Phone. (The question remains, however, as to why users aren't allowed to change the colors themselves.) The only real downside to tiles, of course, is that they're not particularly useful on a desktop computer, and since the Start screen can't be viewed side-by-side with the Desktop, there's little use for them this useful interface. But users of tablets and other similar devices will probably like the tiles no less than owners of smartphones based on Windows Phone.
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The Start screen, which was first introduced as part of the original version of Windows 8, intended to replace the standard Start menu, has received a major redesign as part of the latest updated version of Windows 8.1. You can now change the size of dynamic blocks associated with applications from very small to very large values, use split screens for applications, and make a host of other personal settings.
Users who have been using Windows 8 for a long period of time before upgrading to Windows 8.1 will likely be very excited about the new features and improvements. But those users who had to switch from Vista and Windows 7 directly to Windows 8.1 are forced to use programs from third-party developers that restore the Start menu. Therefore, they are actively looking for ways to hide or disable the Start screen and other elements of the Modern UI interface.
In Windows 8.1, Microsoft included an option to disable the right-hand drop-down “charms bar” menu that opens when you move the mouse pointer to the top or bottom-right corner of the screen. Disabling this menu is very easy. This can be done by calling the context menu of the Taskbar, for which you need to right-click on it, select the “Properties” or “Properties” item and then on the “Navigation” or “Navigation” tab, checking the appropriate item. But how to completely hide or disable the Windows 8.1 Start Screen?
Metro Killer is a small utility specifically designed to disable the Start Screen in Windows 8. A very good sign is that this utility works fine in the updated Windows 8.1. Metro Killer was designed not only to disable the Start screen, but also to disable the Charms bar and hot corners of the interface. Windows 8.1. Although Windows 8 includes options to disable the Settings Panel and Hot Corners, the option to disable the Start Screen can only be used by Windows 8.1 users.
The best thing about Metro Killer is the ability to enable all previously disabled features of the Modern (Metro) interface, which requires a system reboot. Using the Metro Killer utility is very simple. Download and run the utility, then click the “Yes” button to simultaneously disable the Start screen, Settings panel and hot interactive corners.
Metro Killer is compatible with 32 and 64 bit Windows 8/8.1 operating systems, but does not support Windows RT. And if you don't like the new Start button in Windows 8.1, you can follow our instructions on how to hide or disable the button in the updated operating system.
After installing the Windows 8 operating system, the Start screen contains a set of tiles similar to the list of frequently used programs in the Start menu of previous versions of Windows. The screen displays a set of tiles that Microsoft or the computer manufacturer has deemed relevant.
As a rule, these are not at all the applications that the user would like to see, but fortunately, this list can be customized to your taste and desire.
Removing tiles
First of all, you should remove unnecessary tiles from the Windows 8 Start screen. To do this, select the tile you are interested in and click the item in the menu that appears: “Unpin from start screen.”
In order to select one or several tiles at once, you need to right-click on them.
note: When you select a group of tiles, not all actions may be available.
Adding tiles
There are several ways to add tiles to your Start screen. The most common of them:
"All Applications" list. First you need to get into the list of all installed applications. To do this, you need to right-click on an empty area on the screen and select “All applications” in the menu that appears. The window that opens will display a list of all programs on the computer.
You can add a tile with a program or application to the Windows 8 Start screen by selecting it from the menu list and clicking the “Pin to Start Screen” button.
Search. If you need a specific program, but you don't know its location, just use the Windows 8 search tools, which are available on the Start screen. On the search results page, highlight the app you want and add it to your Start screen using the Pin to Start button.
Desktop. You can also add desktop elements to the Windows 8 Start screen tiles: Recycle Bin, folders, files, etc. To do this, select the element of interest, right-click and select “Pin to Start Screen” from the drop-down menu.
Placing tiles
After compiling an individual list of tiles, they can also be placed according to your taste. In order to arrange tiles on the home screen, simply drag them to the desired location while holding the element with the left mouse button.
In this case, the remaining tiles will be automatically placed around the dragged object. If necessary, you can select a specific group of tiles and place it separately from the rest.
Sysadmin(aka in English sysadmin, system administrator) - an abbreviated name of a profession, the full name of which in Russian sounds like System Administrator. This profession has recently become very popular for most young and not so young people; they teach it, work in it, and get good money for it. This is due to the rapid development of various computer technologies and their penetration into all spheres of human life. The word system administrator is often used in colloquial speech, in vacancies and resumes when searching for a job, in a word - everywhere. Below we will talk about what the profession of a system administrator is.
In modern realities, a system administrator can be called virtually any person who is involved in servicing and maintaining the operation of a specific computer network, including all its hardware and/or software components, which may include:
- Personal computers, both workstations and servers;
- Network equipment such as switches, routers, firewalls and more;
- Web servers, mail servers, database servers, and others.
Also, in certain cases, the system administrator may be responsible for ensuring proper information security.
Depending on his specialization, a system administrator can engage in the following activities:
- An administrator of workstations and servers most often repairs both hardware (failed motherboards, burnt-out power supplies) and software (Windows won’t load, commas won’t print in Word...).
- Administrator of a corporate network based on an Active Directory domain. A very popular activity, given the prevalence of Windows operating systems, as well as the need to somehow centrally control them. Such a specialist must be able to create, distribute into groups, edit users, give them the appropriate rights in the AD domain, and also be able to manage group policies for users, their computers and the groups to which they are all members.
- Administration of networks and network equipment. His responsibilities include knowledge of network topology, the ability to work with both non-configurable and customizable network equipment, planning a local computer network, as well as the ability to combine several remote workstations into one network by setting up NATs and VPNs "ov. You should also not forget to control access within this network and outside it - setting up a proxy.
- A web server administrator, who must at least be able to install, configure and maintain one of the following web servers - Apache, IIS, Nginx, and monitor hosting (which can be located both within the organization’s network and outside it). In addition, a good administrator should be able to configure normal resource distribution under high loads, clustering and many other specific things.
- Administration of a mail server is also a common task for a system administrator; his tasks include working with such popular solutions as Exim, Microsoft Exchange, Postfix, Sendmail, or corporate mail solutions from Google or, for example, Yandex. In addition to the obvious control over accounts (creation, deletion, configuration), it is also necessary to be able to set up an antispam system, etc.
- Site administrator. These responsibilities may include simply filling the site with some content, but since we are talking about a system administrator, then in theory he should be able to set up hosting (including a web server, as mentioned above), install and configure the desired site, for example any content management system (CMS).
- Very rarely, the responsibilities of a system administrator may include the task of creating or maintaining a video surveillance system. The tasks include installing and configuring cameras, responding to various events, saving and playing back recordings. He has a weak attitude towards system administration, and often falls into his responsibilities in conjunction with some other responsibilities.
Left out of the system administrator's occupations described above are such possible things as database administration (Microsoft SQL, MySQL and its multiple branches, Oracle, etc.), 1C administration (not to be confused with “1C programmer”), PBX and much more .
The greatest dissatisfaction among users of previous versions of Windows when switching to a new operating system was caused by two things:
- By default, a new Start screen with “Tiles” opened, so to go to the “familiar” desktop you had to click on the corresponding tile. The next time I logged in, the same thing happened again.
- To turn off/restart the computer using the mouse, you had to “call up the magic buttons, go into the parameters, select the shutdown item and select the desired action.
The "Start" button appeared in its usual place. On click right By clicking on this button, a convenient menu appears with the ability to immediately choose to shut down or restart the PC.
However, when the system starts, tiles still open, not the desktop. To configure the desktop to open instead of "tiles", you must first go to the "Desktop". Then you need to click right mouse button on the "Taskbar".
Next, select “Properties” from the pop-up menu. A window will open dedicated to all the taskbar and “navigation” settings. It is the “Navigation” tab that we need to configure the opening of the desktop instead of the “start screen”. On this tab, find the item “When you log in and close all applications, open the desktop instead of the Start screen” and check the box.
Don't forget to click the "Apply" button, otherwise your changes will not be taken into account. Now, when you turn on your computer or laptop, instead of the start screen (tiles), the good old desktop will always open.
Let us remind you that owners of licensed Windows 8 can upgrade their system to Windows 8.1 absolutely free of charge - this can be done through the Windows Store. If you purchase one version of a Windows 8 product or
