Win8 modify the registry to adjust the start screen tile displays the number of rows

Author: Shiny

As we enter the Windows 8 system, the first Indian into the eye is covered with color tile start screen, attentive friend It may be found that the number of lines of the tile on the Win8 start screen on different devices is different. Do we have a way to adjust the number of tiles displayed on the Win8 start screen?

In fact, under the default settings, the Win8 system will specify the default number of tiles on the start screen according to the resolution of the different display screens. The default, maximum and minimum Win8 tile rows displayed in different resolution screens are given in the table to the right below. For example, 1024× 768-pixel screen, the default tile is displayed as four lines.
Icon: Win8 tile display line number of different resolution display screen

If we want to adjust the number of tile display lines of Win8 start screen ourselves, we can do it by editing the registry.

Press “Win+R” to open the run window, enter “regedit” (excluding the bank) to open the Win8 registry editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\ImmersiveShell \\Grid
Icon: Enter Registry Editor from Win8 Run Panel

Whether it is 64-bit or 32-bit Win8 system, select ”New —DWORD (32-bit) value from the right-click menu ”, renamed to Layout_Maximumrowcount.
Illustration: New Layout_Maximumrowcount key

Right-click on the newly created Layout_Maximumrowcount, edit its key value, and enter the new number of tiles in the "Value data" box. Note: Different screen resolutions have their maximum and minimum values ​​for the corresponding tile. The number of rows must be within this range.
Illustration: Manually set the number of Win8 tile display lines

Click “Confirm”Save the modified Win8 registry, return to the Win8 start screen, click the user icon in the upper right corner, select “ Log out & rdquo; and log in again to the system or restart the computer, then you can see that the modified Win8 start screen tile line number setting has taken effect.
Graphic: Win8 start screen tile is set to three lines

Generally speaking, we all hope to make full use of the screen area, the number of magnetic lines is as natural as possible, if the display resolution Support to display more tile lines, you can set it to display the most Win8 tile!
Left: Win8 start screen four-line tile Left: Win8 start screen six-line tile