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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Mellexx:
Disregard this post, my apologies! Works perfect on Windows 8.1 with a quick re-log, and in app cache rebuild!

I've attempted to create two tiles on The Windows 8.1 Pro Preview (Build 9431) And it currently is not working for it! The tiles show up in the tile manager, but do not get put on the start screen. Not sure if anyone has found a work around for this, or if the developer is working on it!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] rayman25:
hey guys

can you tell me how to do a tile for office apps i need one for word 2010 and the only link i have are for shortcuts in windows it does not give me the exe link

do you guys know how to do this thanks :)

never mind lol i found my answer on the previous page :)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] anxdadummy:
How to duplicate/import tile?

Not sure why I don't see my post any longer. Let me try again. How do I duplicate or import a tile, make some modification, and then save it as a new tile without removing the original tile from the Start Screen? Thanks!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
The only way to duplicate tiles with OblyTile is the Import/Export function.

This is how to import and export tiles.

View attachment 2286280

You will need to manually delete/edit the exported ".xml" as you prefer.

Argony
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] anxdadummy:
Thank you! I had seen that Import/Export icon but when I tried to click and navigate to "C:\Program Files\OblyTile\" to import tiles it said no tiles found, even though I saw 00000000 etc. in the folder structure that contained the tiles just created. Where exactly do I import the tiles? Thanks!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
To import tiles, you have to select the folder that OblyTile created when you exported the tiles. The name of the folder is "OblyTile exported tiles".

Example:

Argony
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] anxdadummy:
Ah that's what I missed. I thought I could import tiles that had been already created and didn't think to export them first. Thanks!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cruisen17:
Thanks a lot I couldn't figure out how to launch my internet shortcut tiles in the metro immersive browser, kept loading in Desktop browser :)

But does anyone know how to load an internet shortcut in inprivate mode ?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] sewa2k:
Is this project dead?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
I am not sure if we can open a link in "inprivate" mode while using the immersive mode of internet explorer. :(

No, the project is still alive.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Kir3:
Try making them like IE shortcut (iexplorer.exe -private http://url) I'm not sure if you need to put -private or -inprivate. See for yourself :)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cruisen17:
No luck tried both even with removing iexplore.exe.

I don't think this method works through Oblytile.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] TheRealGreenVirus:
Hi guys

Well I was stupid and updated to Windows 8.1, should have waited for the first reviews. Anyway Now all my custom tiles are gone, and I had a lot of them. Do you guys think there is a way to rescue them?

And by the way, do you guys know how to add already installed Software to the front page? The guy in the video just pulled them up and I can't reach that part because every time I drag my mouse up nothing shows up.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] ZsDaniel:
Try the little arrow in the bottom left corner.

BTW, OblyTile works with 8.1 too, only the mini icon show IE icon (in the apps menu and the front page preview).
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] TheRealGreenVirus:
What little arrow do you mean? Are you using 0.9.1 or is there a newer version? I am using that version right now and my manager is completely empty, non of the shortcuts are there. I thought it would be possible to recreate them by simply browsing the files that OblyTile crated back then.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] ZsDaniel:
I answered to your second question about the already installed apps to the front page.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] johaganism:
obly tile main folder have the custom tiles you created

I just found it. My oblytile program created a folder in the C drive under program files (non x86 folder) and in the obly tile folder is a bunch of folders from the very first tile i created to the last. each time you create a new tile the program saves it into this main folder with a serial number, counting up. i have about 80+ created tiles so far and probably need to recreate twenty. oh. almost forgot to say. these numbered folders have a bunch of info like the application and the associated picture. i wonder if theres a way to quickly recreate tiles using this.

edit

I found that i could right click and hit edit on the launcher file within these numbered folders and the script is small and clean. theres a line that shows where the EXE file that i used. so ive been copy and pasting it into obly tile to recreate the tiles i want. this is the fastest way for me so far. next time tho i will export and import, a function i never used lol.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] macaumen:
Can this problem be fixed? I have a lot or "e" icon in apps menu now.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] TheRealGreenVirus:
I guess we will have to wait for a new version of OblyTile. Those small icons are a new feature.

Anyway, thanks for telling me where the icons are saved, that way I was able to find a lot of my icons, some of them are self made.

But I have another problem right now:

This is one of my icons

but when I click on it on the startmenu this comes up

is there a way to fix this?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
I am trying to fix the issue right now :good:

Try this:

Program Path:

steam://rungameid/48190

Program Arguments: Leave it blank
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] TheRealGreenVirus:
fixed it. The problem was that I changed some settings. I opened this folder here C:\Program Files\OblyTile\00000000 and there was this Launcher.vbs file. I thought I could restore them when I open them with OblyTile and I accidentally changed it so it always opens those scripts with OblyTile instead of that MS default tool. I changed it back to default and now it works. I noticed this because every time I clicked on a shortcut it would start OblyTile.

About that program path, OblyTile changes it like that. When I enter steam://rungameid/48190 to the path it automatically moves it down and puts Steam.exe there itself.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] flexxoo:
Any updates for Windows 8.1??
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Working on the next update of OblyTile.

With the new update it will be possible to create: Tiny Tiles, Square Tiles, Wide Tiles, Larger Tiles. :good:

I should be able to complete the update and post it during the next week. :highfive:

Argony
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] trashbytes:
Thanks soo much! :victory:

Will the IE icon bug be fixed, too? Thats the only thing that bugs me right now.

And I probably won't use the wide and large tiles, because for me they are only useful as a live tile, but good to see them coming! :good:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Yes the IE icon bug will be fixed :good:

But i am afraid we will have to re-create our tiles :( , i'll see if i can find a way to "fix" the already create tiles.

Argony
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] nikctsh:
Wow this update is neat! Have been waiting for this for so long! BTW, is it possible to create a shorcut on desktop to access the ALL APPS menu? Thank you.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Hi

This is a note issue (you can read it on changelog), to solve this issue just open OblyTile v0.7.1 for few seconds after you changed the predefinite browser, and Tiles will works again.

Hope this helps.

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] freddx:
Great tool!

Its awesome! The only bug that I had so far was when you select an image that has an very big size (for example 1200x1200) your created tile will show nothing but the background color.

My startscreen from Windows 8 Pro so far with some created tiles:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Ndaoud360:
What makes long tiles harder than square tiles to make?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] lumpaywk:
Thanks, yeah i feel like a right idiot for not checking the first page before posting. That wont happen again. Also love that you can name the tiles now as i was doing this manually and i have a lot of shortcuts to docs etc on my start screen and it was getting a real bore. :good:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Many things...

I hate the choice that Microsoft has made to "lock-down" the Modern UI (also called Metro), i guess they want people to pass from Desktop apps to Windows Store apps.

I'm sure that, if not now, maybe soon, me or someone else will find the way to create wide-tiles :good:

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] fr3quency:
Edit: deleted! Gomen gomen xD
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Xperia_Fan_Version_6.5:
Malware??? "TrojanSpy.MSIL.aww" what should I do? (Sanned with VirusTotal).
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Hi

That is a False Positive generated by Jiangmin.

Jiangmin

generates a lot of false positives (as you can see 1 detection out of 43).

OblyTile is safe, feel free to try it. :good:

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] scaryshark:
I can't tell you how great this is - now that I've got my start screen configured the Modern UI is starting to look really good on my TV! :)

I have one problem though, when I try to add a shortcut to a file that's got some funny characters in the location path it doesn't work. In this case when I try to make a link to Lego batman 2 the game I get the error on the screenshot.

I guess the easiest way to fix it would be to correct the shortcut path for the .lnk but I can't find it in the start menu folder :confused:

Edit:

Yeah it was pretty easy to fix! I just renamed the game directory to remove the Trademark symbol and stuff - I was a bit hesitant to do so at first incase it broke anything but it didn't ;D

P.S. To the guy that said that if the resolution is too high it will just display the background image I have a little something to add to that:

It's not the resolution that matters - it's the size of the .png. Microsoft has put a limit of 200kB so it can't be any bigger than that. I had a couple 512x512 600kB .png's and all I did was use this online compression tool to make it a little smaller. Then using Paint I saved that compressed file as a .jpg at 300x300 pixels then used the same compression tool to get out a 300x300 .png at 192kB.

( I guess I probably could have not bothered optimising it but I did it just to ensure it would be under 200kB)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Hi

Very curious bug (and funny, i must say, "Batmanà" :laugh:) if i'll find the cause of this, i will fix as fast as i can.

Thanks for your comment :good:

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] N000D:
Good time of day!)

What about Cyrillic characters in the title tile?

I also faced the challenge of creating a tile with a link to the Modern UI.

I mean - I copied the Modern UI app from another computer from the folder C:\Program Files\WindowsApps and put it tnto same folder in my PC, but I can `t create a tile to run this application on my computer, may be necessary to specify the program arguments? Or may be need to specify not exe file to run modern UI app?

Thanks in advance for helping to create the tile set with link to the Modern UI app
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Hi

I'll try to add Cyrillic and Special characters support to the next version of OblyTile (But not sure i can do it.)

Edit: Seems i can't add Cyrillic and Special Characters support to the tile name, Thought i will add it to the Program Path.

About creating shortcuts/tiles for Windows Store Apps, it's a limitation of the system (This is the reason why MetroAppLink has been created), i suggest to copy the shortcut file "%localappdata%\microsoft\Windows\Application Shortcuts" from your pc, to the pc you want to run the app.

Hope this helps.

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Leonick:
I'm guessing the small images is for the zoomed out view? Any limitations on it? I made a 30x30 png with a size just shy of 3kb but zoomed out it just shows a blank tile with only the background colour (which btw it would be nice to have a larger selection of, the default shortcut tile background for starters.).

Either way, awesome app! Thanks.

EDIT: Never mind, noticed the small icons are for searches. Odd how nothing displays when zoomed out though.

EDIT2: While I'm at it. This is likely some stupid Windows 8 code in play but maybe you'd be able to do something about it. The borders on my tiles are a bit inconsistent which is annoying. A tile whit a mostly white background get a solid white border (last pixel) but on a black icon it's almost completely transparent which makes the tiles look like they are different sizes. Image demonstrating the issue: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/732993/win8borders.png
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Hi

The small tile image is the one you can see on "All Apps" menu (you can access it by pressing WindowsKey + Q).

About the image in zoomed out view, i'll try to fix it in the next version of OblyTile.

Thanks for your feedback! :good:

I can't do much about it, the first "solution" that come to my mind is to make the border black on your png image.

Hope this helps.

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Leonick:
No worries it seems it just takes a while before the icons show in the zoomed out view, when they do they use the same icon as for the all apps view.

Yea, I just went in and added a 1px border using the same grey as the standard shortcut tiles do and that stopped it from added the transparency. I could have understood if they decided to add a small border to tiles of certain colours but how someone thought adding a transparent border would be I good idea, well that just makes no sense at all :p
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
I noticed it too, that by opening the All Apps menu, the image will be showed in the zoomed out view too, i'm trying to find a way to make it happens automatically (is not really necessary, but.. why not.)

About the border i'm glad the "problem" is gone!, and.. about the "makes no sense at all", i totally agree with you. Microsoft and their choice, i think we will never understand them :confused:

Thanks again for yor comments and feedback.

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Version 0.8 Released

Version 0.8 has been added on main post.

Hope you enjoy it.

If you have any problem with the new version, please let me know.

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Leonick:
Only made the one tile with 0.8 yet but that worked well. Used the background colour selector and it worked as well. Would be neat if you could enter a hex value for a colour though, but I'm not sure how easy that would be to implement.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
I think i will add more option about colour, at the moment i just put the basic color selection dialog, to test, but i have in mind to develop a color selection dialog more functional. :)

Argony.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Leonick:
In that case, take gradient in to consideration, I noticed the tiles with generic background do have a slight left to right gradient on them with colours depending on your settings.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
I don't know how to do it, i'm not sure if this is possible on Windows 8.1 :(
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Ndaoud360:
I thought wide tiles we figured werent possible?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] trashbytes:
I don't know why, but look at this:

This is the zoomed out view from my tiles. The IE icon bug somehow wasn't showing up when I made a Google Keep tile. I then recreated every other tile again (just hit save for each) and voilà!

I have no Idea why this happened, but I'm glad it did^^

Same thing applies to the All Apps view!

No IE bug anymore for me.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] macaumen:
the IE icon shows on the "all app" list.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] trashbytes:
No it doesn't! It did before, but now it's completely gone.

Zoomed out view on startscreen and all apps screen.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
It is easy to accomplish on Windows 8.1

It will still not be possible to create WideTiles on Windows 8.

I have no idea either :p
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] TheRealGreenVirus:
Dear god please don't let this happen

Spoiler content hidden.

People like me are ****ed if we have to recreate all of them :laugh:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Kir3:
Where you get those pictures? :D
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] TheRealGreenVirus:
those icons?

From all over the internet, there is not a single place a visit. I got some of them from DeviantArt, and others from imgur and other places. I found those Adobe pictures on their website, I just had to resize them.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] nikctsh:
Wow! This is just perfect for gamers :laugh:!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] theomni:
I'm not going to lie, but I think you just made my Windows 8 start screen usable! Now I can make it just like how I want it!

I have a quick question, I saw from your previous post that a larger tile is coming around and thank you for that! But I was wondering, would you be able to make a live tile feature for it? As in on one side, I want the picture of the icon (just the picture and no text) and on the other side, the tile will flip over to reveal whatever text the user has predefined. Would that be possible?

Thank you very much! I will donate and spread the word about this awesome app!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] mannequin:
might there be a conflict between OblyTile and Start Personalization options? i just recently (clean) installed 8.1 on 2 machines and one of them that i'm using OblyTile with doesn't respond to Charms/Personalize from the Start screen anymore (Personalize works perfectly from the Desktop). it just does nothing when you click Personalize and on 2nd click it closes the Charms Bar. manually running "SettingsPane_{911DD688-AEBA-4214-8C58-9C8FBC8C0710}" just brings me to the Start screen. i haven't been paying attention when exactly it stopped working but i've been using OblyTile right from the start so just wondering if there's a chance for a possible conflict.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] johaganism:
have you tried using steam tile app from the store? i assume with all those games you may be using steam
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
No, OblyTile should not be the cause of this problem.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] TheRealGreenVirus:
Yea but my Steam Profile is private and I don't want to make it public. That app only works when your profile is public.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] xauvavoduyen:
i have a problem when start app created by obly tile

i have a problem when start app created by obly tile

thank you for helping

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i sloved, i am lost wscript.exe on system32 folder
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] macaumen:
Is the IE icon bug fixed yet?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
This is currently not possible to achieve with OblyTile. :(

The update 0.9.5 will be ready for tomorrow. :highfive:

Here's some screens:

View attachment 2359406

View attachment 2359407

View attachment 2359408
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] furyXL:
First of all, got to thank you for your awesome work!!!! It really gives another dimension to this poor menu! :good:

But what I hate the most in this thing, is the square/cornered way of life they adopted and forced us to. So I was wondering if there were any way to achieve transparency of tiles?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] rayman25:
Thanks for your work

Sent from my SGH-T989
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Update v0.9.5

New update v0.9.5 available. :highfive:

Changelog and Download on main post. :good:

IMPORTANT: Backup your tile before upgrading from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. It seems there's a chance to lose all the tiles previously created.

OblyTile won't get such feature :(

I'd suggest you to try Windows 8 Start Screen Customizer (by vhanla)

Argony
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] faiz5200:
what the suitable dimension for wide and large tile?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Square Tile: 120x120

Small Tile: 30x30

Tiny Tile: 56x56

Wide Tile: 248x120

Large: 248x248
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] javier180:
Cant pin tiles when created

Im having such a horrible time...This happened out of no where too! I can no longer creat tiles for some reason.. Removed the app and the folders from program files and downloaded it again. Created a new tile.. I get the notifcation from win8 that a new title is created but when icheck out the start screen Its not there.. Its in the app list but i cant pin it because it says its already pinned... WHat should I do?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Try this:

Download the latest version of OblyTile from the main post of this thread.

Run it as Administrator.

Open the settings menu and click the remove button.

Here's how to do it:

View attachment 2363637

Follow the instructions that OblyTile gives to you.

Restart your pc.

Run OblyTile and try to create a tile.

Hope this helps.

Argony
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] flexxoo:
No fix for old tiles?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
Yes, there's the fix for old tiles too. Seems i forgot to write it on the changelog :o

View attachment 2365950

Argony
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] flexxoo:
when I click to fix my tiles the old tiles dont appear
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
This function is more likely a hit of luck. It might work, but it might fail aswell.

It's all about the cache on your system. I could just try this function on 3 pcs, which worked on all of them at first attempt.

So i guess you have to import your tiles, no matter if old backup or new backup. It should work.

Argony
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] LLJKRevol:
Is this "fix" just something that is supposed to appear when I run OblyTile? It doesn't for me. The latest version of the program makes it appear as if there is no evidence of the 300+ tiles I created. (That's right, 315 tiles. They're all for emulation, each tile is for an individual emulated ROM game.) In the program, the list is empty.

BUT, In Program Files/ObilTile, I still have all my tiles here. Here is where Oblytile.ini lives. I have folders named from 00000000 to 00000314. Inside each folder is a launcher.vbs and an images folder.

The current program does see them to some extent, because when I created a new tile, under 8.1, with the latest Oblytile, it created 00000315 in this folder.

Can the new version recover these? Or maybe I should try to find an older version.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
314 tiles :eek: that's lot of tiles!

If you can't see those tiles on the tile manager of OblyTile v0.9.5 it means you used a version of OblyTile that is inferior to v0.8.6 to create them. In this case i am afraid there's nothing i can do.

In case you created those tiles with OblyTile v0.8.6 or higher, it might be a problem of detection with OblyTile v0.9.5.

Let me know which version of OblyTile you used to create the 314 tiles.

Argony
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] LLJKRevol:
I'm not certain, but... I just downloaded 8.6, and I couldn't have used this, or something earlier. I remember a more robust tile manager, and I remember the icon preview from 9.1 and beyond.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Argony-OT:
i'll investigate this, hope to find a solution soon.

Can you check if you have any file (.lnk) inside the folder "%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Application Shortcuts\OblyTile" ?

Maybe those got removed for some reason with the upgrade from 8 to 8.1

Let me know.

Argony
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] LLJKRevol:
That folder is empty.