Awesome Win8 Start Screen

Windows 8 allows users to customize the start screen to change the background and color scheme. However, the background image that comes with the system is relatively simple, and there are not many options. If you change the Windows 8 start screen to the following, would you feel incredible?

Real customization Background plus semi-transparent tile

It's easy to achieve this effect. As long as you have the right tools, Xiaobian has found such a tool. It took 1 minute to turn my Windows 8 start screen into The above look. The basics that I introduce are all green free tools. This time is no exception. After downloading, the decompression operation is.

On the left is the system's built-in start screen background selection. Below you can customize the number of tiles on the start screen and the transparency of the entire start screen and tile. Change the number directly or drag the slider to take effect.

Number of rows, the number of tiles is set, the maximum depends on the height of your screen resolution. At 1920x1080 resolution, the system defaults to six lines.

Start Screen Opacity, start the transparency setting of the screen, 255 is opaque, set to semi-transparent, you can also see the desktop content under the start screen.

Tiles Opacity, the transparency setting of the tile.

Tool main interface

The right side is the background setting part of the start screen. You can choose to set the current desktop as the start screen background, or you can select other pictures; even you can select a group. The picture is rotated in the form of a slide on the start screen (similar to the automatic rotation effect of the desktop wallpaper).

The following describes several custom backgrounds:

1. Use the desktop background

Check the “Use desktop wallpaper” on the right side of the main interface. The thumbnail of the current desktop will be displayed in the blank area, click “Apply & Save”Save. If the current Win8 uses other themes, then when the theme wallpaper is automatically rotated, the picture of the start screen will also change.

There is a Gaussian Blur option below that adds a Gaussian Blur effect to the background image, which is available for all custom background images.

2, select other pictures as background

Click “Load Picture” Add your favorite picture, then drag the box on the picture and select the appropriate part of the picture as the starting screen background. Click “Apply & Save”Save when done.

Change the beautiful background image

3, the background of the slideshow

Click Select Pictures, add the picture material of the slideshow, and then check “Slidershow” , the default 10 second interval, you can also choose to switch randomly (check Random). Also remember to click “Apply & Save”Save.

Select slideshow material

Note that to maintain the custom start screen background image, you need to select the software "Run at startup" (that is, set to boot).

How to restore the start screen

The software itself does not directly provide the restore settings, because when you close the software, the next time you log in the system will automatically restore the original, so the above precautions. If you do not want to restart and restore, you can click on the system default background on the left side of the software, so that your modified content will be canceled.