Saturday 28 December 2019

windows 8 - Can a Network Administrator rearrange tiles on a user's Start Menu?


Sometimes rearranging or removing tiles on the Start Menu can confuse users. Is there a way for a Network Administrator to rearrange (or even reset) tiles on the Start Menu to some pre-defined layout?



Answer



Tile layouts are stored in a file called appsFolder.itemdata-ms located in C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows.


Basically, you can arrange the tiles however you want then take a copy of this file and place it the default user profile (either manually or in your build). New users logging in will then get this pre-defined tile configuration.


You can also copy it directly to the user profile and it will reset the configuration next time the user logs in.


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