How to customize Win10 start menu background and icons

                                                                                                                                                                                         

In the Win10 system, the user finds that the function of controlling the custom start menu background through the XML file is canceled, but the user can also implement this function in the third-party software, so how to do the specific operation method? ? Here is a small series to introduce to everyone, how to customize the Win10 start menu background and icons!
There is a soft media cube as an example
1. First fix the program in the start screen;
2, right click on the soft media cube and mdash; more — open the file location, as shown below Shown:

3. Find the Rubik's Cube shortcut in the open Start menu directory, right click — open the location of the file, as shown below:

In the open directory You can see that the Rubik's main program file is named pcmaster.exe.
4, create a new text document on the desktop, rename it to pcmaster.VisualElementsManifest.xml
Note: to remove the text file default .txt suffix
open pcmaster.VisualElementsManifest.xml with Notepad, the following The code is copied to the document and saved.
"? Xmlversion=“1.0”encoding=“utf-8”? ""Applicationxmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”"
"VisualElements
ForegroundText=“light”
BackgroundColor=“# 49825a”
ShowNameOnSquare150x150Logo=“on”
"/VisualElements"
"/Application"
5. Copy the prepared pcmaster.VisualElementsManifest.xml to the pcmaster.exe file directory.
6, to the most critical steps. In the position shown in the third step (Rugby shortcut), open a command prompt. To do this: Click on File — open a command prompt — open a command prompt as an administrator.

Enter the following command to enter the car:
for%fin(*.*)docopy/b“%f”+,,

The purpose of this step is to clean the tile Cache, you can try a few more times, or unpin the tile and re-pin it to the start screen. The effect is shown below, you will find that the background color of the tile has changed.

It is necessary to explain some of the above code here:
ForegroundText represents the color of the tile title, there are two kinds: light for white, dark for gray;
BackgroundColor for background color, Here is the hexadecimal representation of the RGB color value;
ShowNameOnSquare150x150Logo represents whether to display the tile name;
If you want to modify the tile icon, you can add the following two attributes:
Square150x150Logo
Square70x70Logo
The above two attributes represent the icons in the medium and small size states, and the attribute values ​​use the relative path of the icon file.
For example, in the same directory as pcmaster.exe, create a folder named image, and put your own icon file into the folder. As shown below, here is an icon with the format png, the full name is tweakcube.png.

If the homemade icon size is larger than the tile size, it will eventually cover the background color. Finally, attach the complete code of pcmaster.VisualElementsManifest.xml:
"? Xmlversion=“1.0”encoding=“utf-8”? ""Applicationxmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”"
"VisualElements
ForegroundText=“light”
BackgroundColor=“# 49825a”
ShowNameOnSquare150x150Logo=“on”
Square150x150Logo=“image\\tweakcube.png”
Square70x70Logo=“image\\tweakcube.png”
》//VisualElements
/Application"
After modification, perform the sixth step to clear the cache (or re-fix the tile), and finally get the following effect:

Win10 system custom start menu background and icon method is introduced, According to the above method, we can modify the background color of the start menu, replace the icon of the start menu tile, and so on.