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How to change tiles' background color in Windows 8.1 start screen?
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To make it look like this:
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2015-08-03T18:17:46+00:00 Well, I see that Windows 10 does away with the multi-coloured tile backgrounds. The Start Menu tiles have the same colour background.
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Anonymous
2015-09-25T11:32:54+00:00 I would love to test this a lot of people would go into that much detail I promise , I have ocd and it drives me mad that I cant change them n trust me im not the only one lol will happily do the testing for you
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Anonymous
2015-11-20T01:50:25+00:00 It's interesting that you say that, since I found this thread by searching for a way to change the one single tile that has a different background color on my Windows 10 start screen...
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Anonymous
2015-12-16T07:32:41+00:00 I've found two solutions that are quite good for my needs.
To simply change the color of the background, The Windows Club has a nice free utility to do this:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-tile-color-changer-download
For creating custom tiles, this free program, OblyTile, is absolutely fantastic: