How to change tiles' background color in Windows 8.1 start screen?

Anonymous
2013-10-29T15:49:38+00:00

To make it look like this:

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-03-07T16:14:44+00:00

    Does anyone really believe after all these questions, all these posts, all thisĀ ado they don't understand the problem? I really believe it is something other than understanding the problem. What I don't know.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-07T02:45:42+00:00

    The answer lies somewhere in shell32.dll

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-02-27T20:37:46+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-02-27T20:03:18+00:00

    I wanted to be able to change the color tile to coordinate and make them look nicer with whatever background I choose. When I click on the tile in my start menu there is a choice to customize the tile. I clicked on it and nothing happened. How do I do this? Its very frustrating that you have no control over what color they can be.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-02-26T17:56:47+00:00

    I think it's sad that MS did not think users MIGHT want to customize this. There's so many customization options in win8... but not this?

    I find it even MORE sad that they do not understand our problem! -.-

    Dear MS-team.

    Here is a screenshot of how my startscreen looks:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10082925/Pics/Temp/startscreenbefore.jpg

    Here is the same picture edited in PAINT how I WANT it to look:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10082925/Pics/Temp/startscreenafter.jpg

    and here is how you want us to do that currently:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn393983.aspx

    SERIOUSLY!?

    It NEVER occured to you that "average" users would want to change those colors?!?

    PLEASE give us a user friendly way to change those tile backgrounds, and SOON.

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