yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Hi Guys.

I'm still searching a way to create wide tiles, without put any "background process" or heavy changes to the system.

Would be nice, but, not really necessary.

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] revxx14:
I have a couple of questions about this:

1. Is there any way to set custom tile colors for existing Metro applciations? I really want to make all of my tiles blue.

2. Will there be any way to use this on Windows RT? I know desktop applications don't work, but I'm hoping there will be some way to import or something.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Hi

As far as i know, you can't change the color of Windows Store apps (also called metro apps), but you can change the picture of those. (I sent you a link via PM to the guide.)

I can't say if there will be some sort of emulator to run x86 software on Arm, but i'm sure we will find out a solution. :good:

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Jbbrack03:
Your App is exactly what I have been searching for since W8 first went into Beta! Well done! Two requests:

As others have mentioned, wide tiles would be greatly appreciated.

Secondly it would be awesome to have multi-image tiles. So that you can have the image on the tile rotate. That would be really great as well!

Thank you for all of the hard work!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Hi

I'm still working on wide-tiles.

I'm not sure i can add support to Live Tiles, but never say never.

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] aatrek:
Here's an article about creating wide tiles - would this help you at all?

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/22405/hack-windows-8-metro-start-screen-tiles-icons/
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] shemantis:
That worked, thank you!!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Wetzel402:
I can confirm Obly Tile worked for me on my Windows 10 PC. After creating the tile the program appeared in "All apps". I then right clicked and pinned the app tile.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DonleySimon:
I can´t find a way to make obly work on my asus t100, whenever I try to add a tile it just never appears in the start screen. I tried to rebuild cache and change the default browser but nothing works, I saw another person with the same problem but could not find a solution anywhere. Could anyone please help me out?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Try this:

Run OblyTile as administrator

Click the settings button [Third button on top of the program]

Switch from "Current User" to "All Users"

Click the save button

Picture:

Hope this helps
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Wetzel402:
In addition to OP's suggestions, my Dell tablet occasionally exhibited the same problem and rebooting it would cause the tile to appear.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DonleySimon:
Thanks for the help but I couldn´t make it work. As my Asus t100 came using a wimboot installation I ended up formatting the system to make it faster and now it works, maybe oblytile doesn´t work with wimboot?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
It seems that the custom wimboot installation was the cause of the issue, not sure why.

Thank you for letting me know ! :highfive:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DonleySimon:
No problem. Great app btw!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Ndaoud360:
I can officially say Obly Tile does not work on Windows 10 recently leaked build 9888 UNLESS something is wrong on my end. Normally on Windows 10 the tile shows up when you search then you have to pin it to start. NOW it wont show up at all when you search. SO you can't pin it.

EDIT: NEVER MIND IT DOES WORK. RESTARTED EXPLORER.EXE
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] toto313:
Delete tile with cmd line ?

Hello guys !

First, thank you for this application :)

I've one question, is it possible to delete a tile with cmd line ?

Thanks a lot
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Hello !

OblyTile doesn't offer an option to delete a tile via command line arguments. :(

You can try to remove the tile ".lnk" file from "%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Application Shortcuts\OblyTile" but it may cause the tile to get stuck on the start screen.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] lavacano201014:
The images took up the entire tiles in previous builds of Windows 10, and then I reimported my tiles after updating to 9926 and now they all do that. Shrinking them down to "small" size doesn't help. The "hide name" box was also checked.

Selecting "pin as square tile" also doesn't result in the tile being pinned to the new start menu (but they do show up in the "all apps" list after a delay).
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] MsEvyLynch:
delete
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Ndaoud360:
I was just going to post that.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Unfortunately OblyTile may never work on Windows 10 build 9926 and future builds.

It's still early to say, but with the recent changes that Microsoft made to the OS there's little chance that I'll get OblyTile working on it.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] lavacano201014:
Well, at least it's served us well.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] gabrielmop:
I hope this works on Win10, i love this program, and i hate put my games shortcuts on Desktop or with normal icons on Start Screen, praying for you to make works :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] shazbot:
Oh man :(

I hope you can get it working!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] HEZAiKU:
If this software is not working with Windows 10, how about making it showing on desktop screen instead of wallpaper? Just my opinion
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] gabrielmop:
still no progress? :crying::crying:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
No progress at the time :(
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] gabrielmop:
oh man :crying: Praying for you to make :/ i really like this app, and doesn't exist any other app that do the same thing :/
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Ndaoud360:
JUst wanted to see if Obly tile would work on build 10074 of win 10 and I open it and it says please wait and then freezes. I know it probably wont work but thought I'd try and let you know it freezes.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Drybonz:
Everything is working pretty well on Windows 10 so far, but I really do miss Oblytile. The start menu looks awful without it.

One suggestion I might make to everyone is that if Oblytile won't work on Win10, use the windows feedback tool to let microsoft know that we want to customize desktop program tiles with .png files.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Amillennialist:
I love OblyTile and what it's allowed me to do with my Start screen.

If Microsoft doesn't restore the ability to customize tiles with OblyTile (or you can't find a way around their lack of vision), then I won't "upgrade." (The only thing worse than spending so much time creating custom tiles for hundreds of games would be making them utterly useless so quickly.)

Anyway, thank you for all your work!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oCZfl3yyVqM/Uu88RSDbJSI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/JkT-Fizkwks/s1600/Windows+8.1.jpg
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Mjuksel:
Same as a lot of other people I will stay on 8.1 just for OblyTile.

I was a bit sceptical about the (now not so) "new" at first, but the Argonian just changed Windows forever.

OblyTile, never forget <3

It's a shame Microsoft probably won't do any efforts to make anything similar.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] mbushnaq00:
Any update on developing Oblytile for Windows 10?!

I really cant go back to having icons in the start screen, it looks so ugly
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Sadly, no progress :(
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] designgears:
Any chance of open sourcing your app or sharing it with someone? I wouldn't mind taking a crack at getting it working on Windows 10.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
At this point in time I have no plans to share the source code, but I'll keep it in mind. :highfive:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] designgears:
The custom tile editing/creation in windows 10 is pretty simple, what is keeping you from getting it working? (steam tile for example)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
With OblyTile I am trying to bring custom tiles without relying on Windows Store Apps (Windows Runtime apps) and relative limitations.

This allows for faster execution (by skipping the Windows Store App loading) and a certain flexibility with the program, such as using CLI to automate the tile creation/backup on different PCs.

Those are just a few of the reasons why I want to keep OblyTile in form of traditional desktop application instead of turning it into windows store app.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] designgears:
Ahh, I see what they are doing now. That is a pretty janky way to do it. Hopefully there is another to get it working again. Have you looked into the startmenu layout files? Basically hijacking this process.. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn467928.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

<LayoutModificationTemplate Version="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification">
<DefaultLayoutOverride>
<StartLayoutCollection>
<defaultlayout:StartLayout GroupCellWidth="6" xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout">
<start:Group Name="" xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout">
<start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x4" Column="0" Row="0" DesktopApplicationID="{7C5A40EF-A0FB-4BFC-874A-C0F2E0B9FA8E}\Steam\Steam.exe" />
<start:DesktopApplicationTile Size="2x2" Column="2" Row="0" DesktopApplicationID="{1AC14E77-02E7-4E5D-B744-2EB1AE5198B7}\notepad.exe" />
</start:Group>
</defaultlayout:StartLayout>
</StartLayoutCollection>
</DefaultLayoutOverride>
</LayoutModificationTemplate>
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Yes I did, they have been of help to get OblyTile to work on windows 8 and 8.1

The LayoutModification.xml and related windows 10 customization systems are pretty interesting but not exactly what I am looking for.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] the_angel_moroni:
If anyone is planning on keeping OblyTile instead of upgrading to Windows 10 (I am not going to upgrade until December, as I don't want to interrupt my workflow right at the beginning of my semester, and I find windows 8 to be quite nice actually) and you are having problems where the single instance option in OblyTile doesn't work for a number of your programs, I have had luck using autohotkey to make a script that restores, maximizes, focuses, and activates the program I want if it is already open and only opens a new instance if there isn't one already open. Then I link to the script from OblyTile instead of the .exe of the program I want to launch.

Here is an example script (text in italics should be replaced with what you need):

SetTitleMatchMode, 2

IfWinExist, All or part of the name of the window when it is open

{

WinActivate

WinMaximize

Return

} else {

run Program you want to run.exe Program Arguments/Parameters

}
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] 83nn0:
It'd be a real shame if Oblytile is really done as that and PinMore have been what turned a useless Win 8 Start Screen into a great HTPC launcher.

PinMore isn't working in Win 10 either at the moment but the Dev SnowyDune has said on twitter they're going to fix it when Win 10 is out of Beta.

In the meantime, while it's far from ideal, I've been using Tile Genie for my web links, which is built primarily for people to make multi image tiles.

With some tinkering, you can create both wide and medium (which resize to small, but not large) tiles.

While Tile Genie still has to launch for your links to work, it's light blue launch screen matches the new light blue Microsoft Edge launch screen so it's not hugely noticable. A negative though is it puts a weird blue border around wide tiles you can see in my current Start above.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] mmm273:
So theres no more plans for W10 ? I liked it on W8 and cant live without it :D
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
I'll keep looking into it ! :highfive:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] jonny30bass:
Thanks! A huge reason that I am not upgrading right away is because OblyTile doesn't work with it.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Amillennialist:
No OblyTile, No Ten

That's the only reason I'm not upgrading now.

[IMG="No OblyTile, No Ten"]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oCZfl3yyVqM/Uu88RSDbJSI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/JkT-Fizkwks/s1600/Windows+8.1.jpg[/IMG]
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Nightowl26:
I just upgraded to Windows 10 and wish I had stuck with 8 because of OblyTile. Hope there's an update for Windows 10 in the works. :)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] ViPaSoft:
I loved Oblytile and donated several times and would happily pay again for a version that works with W10.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Nightowl26:
I would also pay/donate for a Windows 10 version. :)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] MortTheBeast:
So any progress or has the developer thrown in the towel? Also willing to donate if this can be fixed to work with Win10... almost pointless to even use any tiles at all when you can't add more.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Current State of OblyTile on Windows 10

Hey all,

To start; I'd like to thank all of you over the past 3 years for the support you've given me and the appreciation towards the work I've done. I really can't tell you how much it means and the confidence it has given me to explore what I do and continue improving.

I am trying my best to find a way for OblyTile to work on Windows 10, however I have stumbled in to some compatibility issues and so far I haven't figured out a way around these and just wanted to make you all aware that it may not be possible for OblyTile to work on Windows 10.

I'll keep trying.

With that being said, any progression I make will be updated right here. Along with any news or other possible avenues for me to explore. But

don't expect anything in the immediate future

as MS have changed the OS from their first builds and these issues aren't small as what was possible, is no longer.

Thank you once again,

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Ronnet:
I with you all the luck in the world Argony. I never got to try out your application for Windows 8(.1), but it sounds exactly like what I should've used all those years.

With Windows 10 Microsoft's support for non-modern tiles is worse than for Windows 8, yet its more important than ever now that modern world is part of the desktop and vice versa. Hench why I stumbled upon your application!

If you get it to work, make sure you charge people for it. It could be as big as Start8. I'll happily pay for it.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Kuimera:
I just wonder.. If you can't do anything to upgrade your app to work with windows 10 why not ask for help? Or even share your code? I'm sure there a lot of people out there that will be more then happy to help you with your problems...

You have created a very useful app, it's a shame to go to "waste" (with waste I mean for us Windows 10 users).

Thanks for your work!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] godsponge:
This is almost word for word what I was going to say. I sure hope there is a way to make it work in Windows 10. Great job.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] xda_dev_user_name:
Keep pushing forward!

I'm one of the (apparently) thousands clamoring for you to port OblyTile to W10! It became one of my default programs on W8, and it's a really sore absence in W10, which is actually a really great OS so far--or would be, if it had your magic! Keep pushing forward! I'll be happy to pay!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] HorstiG:
I´m to :)

HGT - Galaxy S5 - OnePlusOne - Tesla TTL7 -Windows 10
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Spoinky:
Looks like it can be done :)

http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/3fjah2/_/
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] TileCreator:
I created my own as well. Just have been waiting for it to be published :) Its free and has no ads!

---------- Post added at 06:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:01 PM ----------

OblyTile was one of my favorite Windows 8 apps. Thank you [MENTION=4859731]Argony-OT[/MENTION] for all your effort and support. When I installed Windows 10 last Friday I was very disappointed that OblyTile did not work. I was even more disappointed that there were no alternative applications that could replace/imitate OblyTile for Windows 10. So I created one...

TileCreator: http://xdaforums.com/windows-10/development/app-tilecreator-create-tiles-to-t3171167#post62159640

I started writing this app Saturday so please note that all the functions you would expect are not fully functional. However pinning any application to a square logo is supported!

I would love your feedback.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] kerimka:
It's not about Windows Store, it's about store apps (I mean non-desktop app). AFAIK Windows 10 start menu doesn't work as Win 8. So the only solution I see is to use a store app to create tiles, because Win 10 still allows store apps to create tiles on start menu. Although this is not an elegant solution, this is because of Win 10 limitations. I hope someone finds a more elegant solution or even better MS allows more customization :)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] :
Thread cleaned of some disrespectful posts and talk of other apps.

Bringing up other apps in an app thread is disrespectful to the developers. Please don't.

And if you can't post respectfully, then don't post at all. Period. That goes for insulting the developers, or any other member.

Anymore posts like a few I saw here, and further action will be taken on the offenders.

Thanks,

Darth

Forum Moderator
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] 83nn0:
I don't think it's unreasonable to talk other apps in this scenario - the dev has outright said he's likely done with this project so I think it's fair to talk alternatives.

Anyway, I came here to say that the newest update to Pinmore closes itself after launching a tile finally which is a lot tidier than how it worked before. It's worth a look in Win 10 now I'd say. What you lose in having to install an app, you gain in some other settings like being able to create live tiles.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Amillennialist:
Argony, I've loved OblyTile for years; with it, I've created hundreds of custom tiles for Windows 8.x.

I can't be the only person who would really appreciate being able to use an OblyTile for Windows 10 to restore his backed up tiles.

(Even if that means you have to compromise a little bit.)

Thank you for all your efforts.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Amillennialist:
Better StartMenu is really good (and the free trial is unlimited).
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] 5parc:
Dude, you're the best.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Ndaoud360:
Please don't quit Obly Tile if that's what you're thinking. Obly Tile has features that others don't have. Having this on Windows 10 might be hard but it shouldn't be impossible. Other people got similar programs but yours like I said has features that others don't.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Greg90:
there is a chance that Oblytile can work again on Windows 10 TH2:

http://xdaforums.com/windows-10/development/app-tilecreator-create-tiles-to-t3171167/page45

can you look at this and update Oblytile please?

thanks in advance.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] KreNtal:
On windows 10 TH2 is really simple to create custom tiles right now, just an xml and an image file.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Ndaoud360:
Yes. Really hope obly tile can work now
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] TheHaso:
[MENTION=4859731]Argony-OT[/MENTION] seems like Win10 TH2 intoduced a easier way to get custom tiles. My Office 2016 and origin got custom tiles automaticly. Hope you can take a re-look into OblyTile. (Y)

Also:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=63805040&postcount=442

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=63812864&postcount=445
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] MittenFacedLad:
Holy hell, this is so amazing. From those links you posted, with some tweaks, it works again. Would really love to see Oblytile development go back into action again. This will make such a huge difference in W10 for me, and so many others.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] kb-ti:
Command prompt popup

Hi, I started using today oblytile but have one big issue. When I open created tile to folder, program, file etc. for short time pop up a small black screen(like cmd) like here: i.imgur.com/ZDYBxBc.png and opens what I wanted. I have watched some yt videos and other people didnt had something like this. Can anyone tell me how to hide it or fix it?

//EDIT

I resolve my issue If someone will have the same issue just type this in cmd as administrator: cscript //H:cscript //S
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] AdamDesrosiers:
can we expect you to apply yourself to Obly Tile again, now the MS has brought back support for use of visualmanifest.xml, as being used in Win10Tile?

Win10Tile looks promising, but still requires a lot of effort to get decent results (having to delete and create new shortcuts and troubleshoot issues with Office apps) and I miss the ease and dependability of OblyTile on windows 8. Using one of the programs with a launcher-assist and it works alright, but still get annoyed that it often causes my newly opened program to show behind other opened programs, and takes just that extra couple seconds longer.

Really hoping to see Obly Tile for Windows 10 some day - say it might happen! Please!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] linguaccia22:
hello sorry, of course I speak as ignorant on the subject

but why not make it possible to create or compatible OblyTile for Windows 10?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] msemish:
Great App Indeed. I was wondering if you can assist me, I am trying to implement custom tiles for users on the network. How do I get this to be pushed through GPO AD?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] francibon93:
Hi, I am new to the forum. I developed a UWP app that can launch desktop app via URIs among the other features. Its name on the store is edgeTile.

Like TileCreator and WinTileR it need a desktop proxy app at this moment but I'm considering to implement the routine you described above.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] 14my:
It's amazing until you realize that there are already programs that do that, but they all don't support wide tiles unless they are actually a UWP app from the store (to my knowledge). I don't know about you, but I loved the later OblyTile versions so much more than the earlier ones because of the wide/large tile support - start menus aren't the same without them. :')

OT was made from some completely unrelated bug or something with Windows, though, so I think that Argony-OT would have to completely rebuild the program from the start in order to make it work with Windows 10 - but still, that problem with only UWP apps making wide tiles persists.

The best option IMO is to go with another big tile creator like Pin More, WinTileR, TileCreator, or Better StartMenu. Other options would be trying to get Argony-OT to make OT open source and put it on GitHub (which I think is a good idea), try making an app that's open source on your own, or use the method with VisualElementsManifest.xml manually without wide/large tiles, and pray that Microsoft makes custom tiles easier to make.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] thebunnyrules:
If you release OblyTile as an open source project I'm sure you'll get alot of people who'll give you a hand trying to find a work around. I wouldn't mind having a go at it myself. PM me if you're interested.

Fadi
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] francibon93:
Hello! I'm the developer of EdgeTile Creators. The new version on the store now supports tile launch without any annoying window popping up, just as it was with OblyTile in Windows 8.

Link: https://www.microsoft.com/it-it/store/p/edgetile-creators/9n3mgs2xcpr1?rtc=1

Windows Central Review: EdgeTile Creators for Windows lets you create Start pins for (almost) anything https://www.windowscentral.com/edge...ts-you-create-custom-pins-just-about-anything