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[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] ratonight:
Just a few games that i'm testing are working. I thought that this app works like an shortcut for the programs, but the paths for the .exe files are correct (i tested every one) and even so, each game has an different error (black screens, error messages) when i try to run then (the errors doesn't occur outside the app ).

Do i need to edit the "args" textbox in some way?

Sorry my bad english.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] jeffny01:
I'm having a problem running certain games as well. Waiting for an update
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] FacelessPanda:
What games exactly? Because game executables come in all sorts of flavors, and if your game runs under steam, or origin, or some other gaming platform, you might need to actually set your shortcut to call a certain url with a certain protocol, or pass an argument to an executable in the platform folder.

Specifically, what works best for steam games is to call an url that looks like this:

steam: //rungameid/[id]

, where [id] is the id of your game in steam.

For example, my shortcut for Batman Arkham City GOTY calls

steam: //rungameid/200260

.

The best way to know your steam game id is to visit the store page of the game on steam, right-click on the background and select "copy page url" ; paste it somewhere, and it looks like this:

http: //store.steampowered.com/app/200260/

. You have it at the end, after the "/app/". So copy that, and paste it where you need it.

For origin, uplay, or others, I don't know. I gave instructions for steam because it's the most popular one, but in a general fashion, mimicing the behavior of the default shortcut created by the "add to start menu" action present during the installation of a game is your best bet.

PS: my urls have spaces between ":" and "//" because xda thinks I'm spamming and linking to the outside. So endure the restrictions I've been constrained to follow and understand that a normal url contains no spaces.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] jeffny01:
I'm having a problem with Steam games and now can't run Path of Exile either. No error, just doesn't launch
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] FacelessPanda:
Try pointing Tile Creator Proxy to the shortcut you have in your "all apps" list. Open your start menu -> all apps, right click your shortcut "Open file location". Copy the location in the explorer bar, paste it in the proxy path textbox, then add the name of your shortcut followed by .url

It's the second best course. If mimicing the shortcut doesn't work, point to it. Applications shortcut have an hidden .LNK extension, internet shortcuts (or files that open a protocol like steam games or torrent magnets, etc...) have an hidden .URL extension.

PS:

Oh and, dev, if/when you need/want to localize to French, I can help.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] lavacano201014:
Due to limitations within the older TileCreatorProxy (which I don't think are present anymore), I maintain a bunch of shortcuts for all the things I need to launch (because sometimes I need to set the working directory, sometimes I need to specify args, sometimes I'm loading a Bethesda game through Mod Organizer and that's all manner of weird). They're all at C:\TileCreator\lnk.

I recommend this method, personally.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] jeffny01:
Thanks for the suggestions...tried them all and no luck so far. It's strange. One of my steam games (Grim Dawn) launches without issue, but another (Age of Kings) doesn't.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] FacelessPanda:
This seems weird. If your shortcut launches the game, and if you point Tile Creator Proxy to that same shortcut (remember .url and .lnk file extensions), Tile Creator should have no problem launching the game, because all it does is the same thing as when you click on the shortcut.

Any more info you could provide?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] meeekeeee:
Whilst open, I moved TileCreator into a virtual extended monitor - therefore I do not see it come up ever when I click on start tiles.

Best solution I think until this is resolved!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] JosephFeliciano013:
So for example, and to clarify, you move Tile Creator onto Desktop 2 while you use Desktop 1 ? That way it opens on Desktop 2 and you never see it on Desktop 1.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] fromBzh:
Hi,

How you do for having transparence background on PNG icons please ?

'cause in the left column of the app it works but not on the start menu :

(can't post images as i just created my profile on this forum)

Thank you !
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Aldagor:
Hello,

In the previous version of TileCreator, back when the color changing did not work, i was able to set some semi transparent images as a tile, and in the background i had the color that i have set in the start menu. After the update i can no longer do that. My image is always displayed on a square in the color set in the box. What i want is to my tiles look like they were transparent. I know i can do that by changing the background color manually to the one that is currently set in my windows composition, but i don't really like the idea of checking what color exactly is that every time i change windows colors, and then setting it to every tile separately.

Could you add the ability to set transparent background colors? Or maybe at least some feature, that adds the color of your windows composition on a click.

Thanks!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] GregoryGHarding:
hey, thanks for this app, but im having problems, ive setup the proxy and added my apps to it, and i launch tilecreator to pin tiles, write title, enter app key, choose color etc, but it will not allow me to select an image, when i choose the browse icon. nothing happens.

any ideas? ive uninstalled/reinstalled/rebooted 3 times. no luck there
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] kasiopec:
App looks good. However some QoS improvements would be nice.

Obviously, app idea was taken from PinMore app. However they have some things that makes app usage a bit more comfortable.

1)Can you add recommended size on each tile, so when I am looking for an image I know which size to look for.

2)Tile text color( black and white will be enough, radiobutton or something like that).

And of course some bugs.

1)Tiltle bug. If you have no title on a wide tile and mouse over on them for some time, tooltip appears and it is empty. You can make title as must have option and then make checkbox to make it visible/invisible.

2)Had another bug. when you select an image for a tile and you are not selecting the medium image first, but wide tile you get white image on every size when it is pinned to the start..
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] -mirko-:
First, thanks to the creator of this app, its amazing.

Now, I can confirm what a few users said a few pages ago, that there are problems running certain games, out of four tested, one gives a launcher error, one gives a black screen, the other runs but with an "unsupported resolution error" and finally the last one runs fine. I'm not using shortcuts/steam/origin or anything, just the direct path to the exe's which is how I launch them. Regular apps seem to be working fine, tested chrome, vlc and utorrent without problems.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] maxaon09:
Here is a way using which I was able to run absolutely all "problematic" games: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62332505&postcount=231

And here is the link to the video: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62344075&postcount=238

This method helped not only me, but several people
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] -mirko-:
Thanks, everything is working fine now. Maybe this should be added to the OP to avoid more posts from people asking the same.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] lavacano201014:
The base problem here is working directories.

A quick explanation: Every single process currently running on your system, from your web browser to your game, even Cortana and the login screen, are said to be running inside a particular folder, which is not necessarily the folder the .exe lives in. This is the "working directory" for the process. Think of it as a sort of "YOU ARE HERE" marker for each program. When a process launches another process, and doesn't specify a working directory, the "child" process typically inherits the working directory from the process that launched it (the "parent").

99% of the time, the working directory is explicitly specified (but not in a way that you notice) to be the same directory as the program's installation directory. What's happening here is that TileCreator Proxy is launching processes and not specifying the working directory, meaning the child is now "working" from whatever TileCreator Proxy has as it's working directory. Some programs can run because they look up where they got installed to and explicitly make calls to things in that folder. Others assume that whatever the working directory happens to be is also where it's been installed to, and just go "OK, from here, I want to go this way."

The reason the .bat file always works is because it ALWAYS sets the working directory to the game's directory. Every time. The developer can make it so these files aren't needed by both adding support for working directories and setting the default to be the same as the exe's location. I'd patch it in myself but the developer hasn't made the source code available.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] kilador:
Great app!

But how do I pin Store Apps? Not desktop ones but the apps you get from windows store and by default (calendar, mail, news etc)

Thanks!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] lavacano201014:
You can't.

Even if you were savvy enough to give your user account permissions to read "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps" where they all live (way easier said than done, and I managed to break Metro apps for a good couple minutes figuring this out), trying to run one of the .exe files only nets you this error:
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] maxaon09:
youtu.be/d5Usxmtd_Fg

In the next topic there is a similar program wherever possible. I don't know whether it is possible and whether it is appropriate to give a link to it. Perhaps the method described there works in this program.

"How to create shortcuts for Store apps?

• The store apps you've installed to your computer are listed in this folder:

C:\Users\[YOUR_USER_NAME]\AppData\Local\Packages\

C: is the drive that Windows 10 is installed. And you need to check "Hidden items" from View menu of the Windows Explorer to see the AppData folder.

Now, in this folder, you can find the app you search for by looking to folder names. So for example, if we're looking for VLC app, by looking to folder names, one can understand that "VideoLAN.VLCforWindows8_paz6r1rewnh0a" is the one we're searching for. Now just go to Better StartMenu Helper app. Select "Run desktop app" as Action Type. And instead of selecting a file, just type this to the textbox:

shell:Appsfolder\VideoLAN.VLCforWindows8_paz6r1rewnh0a!App

That's it. You see the logic here. It's like that:

"shell:Appsfolder\[FOLDER_NAME_OF_THE_APP]!App"

For some built-in store apps it might be like this one:

"shell:Appsfolder\[FOLDER_NAME_OF_THE_APP]![FOLDER_NAME_OF_THE_APP_TILL_UNDERSCORE]"

For example, for Groove Music app, it should be:

shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.ZuneMusic_8wekyb3d8bbwe!Microsoft.ZuneMusic "

Source: http://www.win10controller.com/betterstart/

P.S.: If I broke the rules please delete the post
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] TerryOhr:
TileCreator StartUp

Can Tile Creator be started at Windows StartUp? If so, How? Also can you Create a tile for Tile Creator?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] kilador:
indeed I was able to create tiles of store apps using that method :)

I was unable to create tiles for some windows apps (mail, calendar, settings, etc) using that method, but at the end I could do it by creating desktop shortcuts to all of them (from shell:Appsfolder) , put them all in a folder and pin tiles linked to those shortcuts :D

After all, you can use a classic shortcut and pin its route to a tile to link anything there is (programs, apps, settings, shell commands etc).

Thanks!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Amillennialist:
I'm using Better StartMenu, and that's what I'm doing.

So, no matter what Microsoft does to Start, I'll have my game shortcuts and tile art backed up (in my Archive and with Backblaze) and ready to go.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] logopogo:
Programs open in background?

First, thanks developer for putting in so much effort for us all to have appealing Start menus. :)

I just updated to using the new Proxy program and my programs/webpages are opening as they should except that they're opening in the background. This is a change since updating. That is, if I have a Chrome browser up and click on my iTunes Start tile, iTunes opens up behind the Chrome browser. The taskbar icon then flashes indicating that it needs my attention.

Anyone know if there's a setting I didn't enable or a quick change to make them open as usual?

Thanks!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] tenzln:
pins not working? only work when testing in the proxy

Basically, my question is the title. My games that I am pinning sometimes do not work when pinned but the link works from the test option in the proxy. What is going on?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] ljnkshady:
i can't file the "LINK" that TileCreator Proxy create ? where is it ?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] nickdgr33n:
Can't get TileCreator working

I installed TileCreator from the windows store and downloaded and installed the proxy - could get it to work wouldn't even pick up the example notepad entry in the config file. Did some searching and came across the latest version of the proxy with the new user interface (why is the old one still available?). So I un-installed the old proxy and installed the new one which appears to install the config in a completely different place. Still doesn't work and it appears that the main application is looking for the config in c:/Tilecreator not in the user data where it appears to have been installed. I so wanted this to work and am really disappointed.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] fromBzh:
steam game with parameters

Hi guys, all is working for me but i have a problem with only one program, a steam game with parameters :

What i exactly need to run i this adress :

steam://rungameid/227300 -nointro -64bit

And nothing else. (If i try with the 64bit executable directly, it doesn't work in anyway, the games run in 32bit)

I tried to enter the good adress but it doesn't work.

And i can't try with the .bat file because it's a Steam adress, not localised in a folder.

Thank you for help.

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edit : ok i found a solution, i cold edit the game laucncher in Steam : right vliv, properties, set launch options
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] laktoseintoleranz:
hello there,

this program is great! can't wait to edit my tiles.. the only problem is that it's not working. got the same problem as mentioned above by "nickdgr33n". followed your instructions for installation, but it won't let me pin any tiles and tells me that i also need TileCreator Proxy (which i have). what can i do?

thank you so much for any help on this!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Dayanto:
Feature Suggestion: Show programs from the start menu folder in a list

Looking up the file path for every tile can be a bit tedious. OblyTile solved this issue by providing a list of all your installed programs and automatically filling in the path if you selected one. Implementing something similar could be done by scraping the start menu folders ("C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs" and "%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs" ) for any shortcuts to .exe-files. (and perhaps Steam-games as well?) Alternatively, "shell:AppsFolder" might also be an option.

This would make the process of creating a tile quite a bit shorter.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Drybonz:
A thought I had on a feature that would be useful... option to change the background color of all existing tiles you have made at once. In other words... I decide I want all my tiles to change to red. This option would allow the user to click a button to change all the background colors to red, instead of having to do it individually. I don't see an option like this currently... I apologize if I missed it. Thanks for considering my suggestion.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] beruth:
+1
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] ekkusu:
Problem

Good afternoon, I have a problem with an application, I run from the normal icon and open normal, run it from the TileCreator and opens bad, I can not post pictures because I'm new user, the problem is that when you run with TileCreator, all the icons of the application disappear and the font type is different.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Dayanto:
When you run your program normally, do you use a shortcut, and if that's the case, does it have any command line arguments? I had problems with a program which refused to launch, but when I changed the path (in TileCreator Proxy) to use the shortcut (.lnk-file) instead of the .exe-file, it worked fine.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] DGLucinsky:
This utility is excellent - great work - very impressed. However I do have a minor issue that I wonder if others are having. When I select my Tile Creator tile to start my program, the program starts and then the system goes back to the Start Menu. The program is going, if I use Task View I can switch to it, but starting it from the Tile, it doesn't stay on the screen once started. If I just pin the program to the start menu without a defined tile (completely awful!) it works i.e. stays in the application. Have I missed something. Is there a setting somewhere?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] GObonzo:
got a message attached to my initial review stating that transparent tiles, colored text, all size tiles, and other updates had been added/fixed. tried the latest iteration last night and none of those things are working.

also had written that support here was getting their full attention and any problems posted here would be addressed quickly by them. checking back through passed couple weeks don't see any responses from the developer.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] -Nacho:
Hello,

first of all thanks a lot for your work!

Is there a way of creating a tile as a shortcut for a certain folder? That would be great for work organizing - thanks!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] monoface:
Tiles are no longer able to use the windows accent color. Please add "transparent"/accent color option to the color picker.

I am aware many people have requested for the color picker to work and its great that it does, but I for one like to have a bunch of my pins using the accent color. The ones that I already had pinned retained their transparency to use the accent color. Any new pins I add will insist on using the color selected with the color picker (so by default that'd be white).

Really the color picker not working as intended before seemed like a non-issue to begin with. It is pretty easy to just create an image with any background color after all.

id link a screen cap of my glorious looking start menu to prove how fantastic things can look with accent color in some tiles and whatever custom background i actually added to my image files on others, but my power level is not high enough
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] shallaybooker:
Cannot Run .bat File

I have set up the proxy and used TileCreator to make the tiles. It works great for all other files: .exe etc. However when I point it to a .bat file it runs into an error saying that it cannot find the file that the .bat is pointing to. I assume there is some argument that I could write into the args to get it to work but I can't figure it out. The .bat file runs fine when I run it manually.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Dayanto:
For me, it works just fine to run bat-files. Here are some things you could try:

- This might seem obvious, but you might want to check to make sure file extensions aren't hidden (so the files aren't named file.bat.bat or something).

- TileCreator can launch shortcuts, so you could try making a shortcut to the .bat-file and running that instead. (shortcuts have a hidden file-extension, so remember to add .lnk (.LNK) to the end of whatever you named it)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] shallaybooker:
Shortcut Works

I tried making shortcut to file before and it returned the same error. At your request I tried again and realized when I selected the shortcut file in the proxy it would automatically point to the original file "run.bat". I manually typed in "run - shortcut.lnk" for the filename and then tested it and it Worked! Thanks.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Tetriser016:
Hi [MENTION=6862570]TileCreator[/MENTION], I've used TileCreator.

I've made the proxy link for PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+.

But when I tested the link, the game crashes with "PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+ has stopped working" message. While running the game directly just worked fine as usual. :(
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Dayanto:
Seems like the general solution when running something manually works, but running it through TileCreator Proxy doesn't, is to create a shortcut and run that instead.

Some tips when linking to shortcuts:

- Whenever you select a shortcut as your target in TileCreator Proxy, it will automatically use the path to the exe-file instead. To use the actual shortcut, you will have to manually change the file path in the TC Proxy window so that it points to the shortcut instead.

- Shortcuts actually have a hidden extension, so you will have to manually add .lnk (.LNK) to the end of the name in TileCreator Proxy.

Hope this helps! :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Royspc:
Instructions for using Proxy are where?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] gabrielmop:
TileCreator is not working on Win 10 10576, there are any known problem with this build?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] -Nacho:
Could anybody help with this? Thanks!

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[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] gabrielmop:
Simple, just select any file that is inside the folder, after that, delete anything that is after the "" on the folder you want.

Example: you want a shortcut for a folder named "music", so you go and create a path for any file inside the folder music, Californication for example

the Path will be C:\Users\%USERNAME%\music\Californication.mp3

just delete the "Californication.mp3"

so the path will be: C:\Users\%USERNAM¨%\music\

and will open the folder when you create de tile
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] denogginizer:
Another way to do this is:

- Open Explorer

- Navigate to the folder you want to create a tile for. Say the folder is "Work". Hold down the Shift key and right click on your "Work" folder and choose "Copy as path".

- Paste that into the "Path" line in Tilecreatorproxy.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] deathbycheese:
Any solution for this? I'm having the same issue - specifically on a link to Chrome. I even went into the .config and added the path there. Is it requesting a web url?

When i click, the TileCreator app briefly opens, then the error message pops up and a new blank Chrome window opens on top of it.

I just want the tile to simply launch Chrome like the native tile does, allowing me to start up per my Chrome settings.

-------

BTW - Windows 10

What I'm finding is, once I create the icon, it keeps asking me to recreate the path. I do that a few times, then if i wait an hour or more it starts to work - BUT, the TileCreator window briefly pops up and closes before opening my application - ie. Chrome, Excel are the two I've tried so far.

I guess if I have to put up with the initial headache of dealing with the dialog box until it begins to work, it would at least be nice to NOT have the TileCreator window pop up each time I click the icon to open things.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] beruth:
Tile with the theme color

With the first version of "Tilecreator", Tilecolor was same as windows theme color, and when it change, this color change also.

With the new version, Is necesary set one color, and this color doesn't change when windows theme change.

Could I set a theme color as tile color?

thanks!