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[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Interesting - thanks for this. Will do some digging :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Angus1980:
Mate I'm not a member or anything here, but I just wanted to say WELL DONE!! This is brilliant. Just what I was looking for. Simple to use and you don't have to DL third-party proxys that pop up as malware and virus'. Thanks so much. Only feedback would be that it would be neat if you could make the background a level of transparency like the Start Menu.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Glad it's helpful to you :) I don't think transparency is possible unfortunately, a limitation of the start menu itself. If it ever becomes possible, rest assured I'll make sure it's available :).

Fairly big change coming out soon, I've added the ability to resize and move the icon around before 'iconifying' it, as requested by someone here. I'm not sure how user friendly, intuitive, or buggy it is at the moment. Just need to polish it a little more, but it allows you to make icons more like this, should you wish:

Note that the left one was enlarged and moved within the app, using the same icon as the right one (Some resolution was lost in the enlarging, which I just need to resolve first ;) ).
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Have just released version 2.1 - this now includes icon resizing and moving. Let me know if there are any problems :)

https://github.com/Jonno12345/TileIconifier/releases
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] DroidShift79:
This is AWESOME [MENTION=1878179]Jonno12345[/MENTION]

It's working like a charme. Much appreciated. Thanks for working on that app.

All though, a little bit more comfort when it comes to zoom factor would be nice.

Something like:

- maybe use a resize/zoom trackbar so zoom factor is somehow visible in percentage 0%-100%

- Sync zoom factor and icon position to small tile. (maybe 2 options, 1 for position, one for size)

- center icon on tile

Anyway, your tool is doing a great job. and it's nice that you see what you can do to implement more features.

Once more, Thanks!

Maybe One Day your tool will support wide tiles and live tiles :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
Is it possible that tiles created with TileIconifier preserve an application's jump lists? Tiles created by the similar app, Win10Tile retain this, but TileIconifier is a big improvement over that one in many ways, so I'm using yours even if it doesn't preserve jump lists.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Jump lists should work fine if you're amending the original shortcut (The same way Win10Tile does I believe), however custom shortcuts are actually just indirect links to the original program. It may be possible but I haven't looked in to it, I'll make a note to see if there's a way to do so at some point :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Good points :) I want to be sure things work fine before spending too long on the UI, in case there are some huge issues with it that I wasn't aware of. That said, there *is* a 'center icon' option, but it's hidden in a right click menu at the moment. Not sure why I didn't make that more obvious.

Syncing the changes should be possible, I wasn't sure if that would be more or less useful though really. Will look into it though. Zoom bar makes perfect sense, will definitely be putting something like that in :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
oh gosh, you're right - jump lists are working fine! I guess I hadn't realized how many programs I needed to make custom links for is all. Excellent work!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] DroidShift79:
Man, there really is a hidden secret right click menu [emoji1] thx for pointing it out.

When you come up with a percentage view or something, there wouldn't be a sync position and zoom option needed, I guess.

So far no major issues with your cool tool.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Zoom track bar and percentage label added. Zoom should be slightly more intuitive now too.

Also added in latest version are custom shortcuts for Chrome Apps, and Windows Store Apps. (Thanks [MENTION=7337833]AdamDesrosiers[/MENTION] for putting me on track for this)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] ag0n:
Any idea why this looks soo poor? http://i.imgur.com/gg9tFe8.png

The image seems big enough / has enough resolution, but yet somehow, it feels like it needs anti-aliasing :|

Anyway, great job :D Finally a tool that is almost as good as i would hope it to be (the windows 10 menu seems to have space and potencial, yet somehow the options are small).

edit: not sure why, when i take a screenshot, your app comes out kinda weird: http://i.imgur.com/tH9AZ9v.png
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Hmm, since the last updates I do apply some scaling to it, perhaps it's losing some resolution. Could you attach the image you're using and I'll see if there's anything stupid I've done, or if it's just how the start menu interprets it?

Your screenshots are very weird, especially as they seem to change colour when I zoom in..! No idea what's going on there.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] ag0n:
Thanks alot dude!!! Yes, i noticed my screenshots are looking weird. I formatted my computer 2 days ago, using all programs up-to-date. ShareX is the tool i use to take screenshots, never had this problem before.

http://i.imgur.com/w8gVldS.png Thats the image!

Is it possible to use a completely transparent background? Cheers!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Eep, sorry about this. Looks like it's crashing trying to enumerate Chrome apps which probably causes an issue with everything else! Will look into this right away.

//EDIT: Hopefully now fixed this bug, and *maybe* improved the image quality. As always, let me know and I'll take it from there, I have a suspicion without using a third party tool the image quality may not be as good as the original :( Will continue to look into this if it proves to still be an issue.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] ag0n:
Thanks alot dude!

Whatever you did, seems to have fixed the image quality problem!

Do you have some screenshots for inspiration? I feel like i need to get creative now! :D
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Phew, glad it worked :) Let me know if you have any other issues

My start menu is actually a horrific mess at the moment from testing this app all the time, and I'm an awful designer anyway :) . I'd suggest doing a search for "deviantart windows 10 tiles", I'm sure there's a lot of talented designers out there who will have some good ideas for you!

To answer your other question, unfortunately transparency isn't available in the VisualElements spec provided by Microsoft, so it's not available at this time :(.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
Awesome update! The couple chrome apps I use are looking great and pinning the store apps is working - absolutely fantastic! I'll have my store apps updated in soon and will be a happy camper. Already am! Thanks for helping my start menu shed that initial Windows10 blah.

One oddity that is probably out of your control? The custom-tile for Edge browser opens the program with no tab open, so you see a non-functional shell of the browser. You need to click on the 'new tab' icon before you can start to navigate anywhere.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
You're quite right - I can reproduce this issue with Edge. It seems I can provide it a URL after the command (eg - microsoft-edge:http://www.google.com) and it'll create a tab and navigate there. I'll see if I can find a better way to handle Windows Store apps, but if not I can add a workaround to be able to provide an additional parameter here.

Will continue looking into it, thanks :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Have now released a new version that (hopefully) works a little more reliably for both finding and opening Store apps. Let me know if this works any better for you :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] ashtangakasha:
Superb! Excellent! 55 Gallons of Kudos! I've been messing around with nasty kludges for many months, and the perfect solution is here. Great work, and 10,000 gratitudes heaped upon you and yours. It's kind of amazing that today, after so many funky half-solutions, I stumbled upon this thread which leads up to a few hours ago, and the app does what I need without installing anything or even reading one line of instructions. I am in your debt, sir!

Allen
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Really glad it's working well for you and many thanks for such a positive review :)! If you have any suggestions or problems, please let me know and I'll do my best.

Thanks again :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
You have any concept for what you'd like the logo to be like? You want it more illustrative, like a picture of an artist assembling a tile mosaic? Or something really flat and modern windows style? I'd be happy to help with a program icon if you can provide some direction.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Thanks for the offer, I really don't have any ideas at all to be honest. Design is definitely not my strong point ;) Anything you can do would be great, I'm sick of the sight of the standard .Net logo..!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] neok44:
Any reason why Firefox can't be changed? I was originally using Win10Tile which worked on everything else, even the Chrome Apps and then tried your application and the same result for both, no change.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Afraid I'm not sure. Strangely you can create a new shortcut to the same place and that one works fine, it's just the original shortcut file that doesn't seem to. Alternatively you can create a custom shortcut with TileIconifier to point to any shortcut that isn't otherwise working.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] DarkPro1337:
Hi, I made the icon for your program if you enjoy it then you can use it freely. And thank you very much for your program, it's perfect for me. :good:

DeviantArt link - darkpro1337.deviantart.com/art/TileIconfinder-icon-602404960
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] reuben2phil:
I'm loving this program, but i can seem to iconify the microsoft office apps. I also cant iconify the control panel. I tried making a custom short cut to excel ( the path goes straight to the excel.exe) but the tile is still not changing. I',m not sure if im using the custom shortcut wrong but I cant seem to pin the shortcut i guess.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
very basic and quick work, but here are some simple icons for your consideration.

tile icons

I'd be happy to keep working on it for you - if you have a clearer idea of what you'd like to see or what direction you'd like a logo to go in, I'm happy to help.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
It will take you three steps to create the custom links to an office program or to the control panel. Probably, you just missed the last step and tried pinning the wrong shortcut but let me lay it all out.

Create a custom shortcut:

click on "utilities > custom shortcut manager" and then "Create new shortcut"

you either select your special folder, such as for the control panel, or click on 'other' to navigate to a program like an office app. You can select a custom icon from here or not before clicking on "Generate shortcut."

Close out of the Create new shortcut dialog. Close out of the custom shortcut manager.

Find your new shortcut in the first dialog box of TileIconifier and click it. In the right hand side, finalize your tile properties, such as b/g color, icon position, etc. Click on 'Tile Iconify!'

Open the start menu, click on "All apps" and scroll down to the folder for Tile Iconify. Within that folder you will find any custom shortcuts you generated. You must pin these to your start screen. They do not replace the default shortcuts for things like office apps or control panel.

That should do it.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Thanks a lot for this, I'll add one of these into the next build :) ! Unfortunately I'm away for a couple of weeks and won't have chance until then, but this design is ideal :) . Thank you!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Thank you so much, it's not quite the style I was looking for as this is a little more emphasising on searching instead of the tiles, but thank you all the same!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] reuben2phil:
Thanks so much i got it to work. Another issue though is that the tiles are very "fuzzy". This may be due to scaling since I'm using a 4K screen but the source images are very high quality, so im not sure why its being downscaled
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Some down scaling is done as the .NET image libraries seemed to keep throwing generic errors when I was working with high res images. As such, the original image is scaled down to 400x400, although I figured that would still be sufficient resolution for these images.

Currently haven't got access to my machine but I did intend to look at this again as I wanted to keep as much resolution as possible.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Al Gore:
Great program, thank you!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] bumpaneer:
I am also seeing a similar scaling issue on a Surface Book. Windows Display Scaling is at 200%, and the icons appear "fuzzy" when pinned. I have not experienced the same issue when creating tiles using alternative programs.

Though you say it is being scaled to 400x400, the medium icon I have in my VisualElements folder is only 100x100. I have found if I manually edit the VisualElements Metadata.xml for the MediumIcon to use a 512x512 icon it looks perfect when pinned.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Very interesting, maybe I messed something up... Will look into it as a few people have reported this. Thanks a lot :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] bumpaneer:
Looking through the code at TileIconifier.Core\Shortcut\ShortcutConstantsAndEnums.cs, looks like the values are being hardcoded there. I am currently away from my development machine, but might take a stab at building your project if I get a chance later and messing with the values a bit.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
I'm poking it at the moment, it's definitely because of those values (I didn't factor in that in higher DPI mode it'll need higher res images :) ). Just getting around the fact that the picture box and those figures need to be handled independently at the moment.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Just added a new release - could you let me know if it makes any difference?

Thanks :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] bumpaneer:
The output looks perfect. Just a little issue when the image is first set. The initial centering/scaling now looks to be a bit off, but using the image reset button gets it lined back up.

Initial:

Final:
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Have added a new release which hopefully addresses this issue. I'm suspicious there may be other little problems lurking after changing it, if you notice anything please let me know :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] bumpaneer:
So far everything looks great on my end. Thanks for the updates!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
I'm glad you liked one of the icons. In case you find it useful, I included a png with a transparent background, instead of the blue as well as .ico versions of both (not really carefully made, just an autoconversion from iconverticons.com/online of the pngs I had made).

Thanks again for this great utility - if you need anything else design-wise, I'm happy to help. I'm useless in any programming that's not html/css but I know my way around graphics and design!

OneDrive insists on showing the transparent background as black - but it's transparent in photoshop and in just the normal thumbnail in File Explorer.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] JHthe4:
--Edit: Forgot to read the thread, issue is resolved. Apologies!--

Hey,

for me office tiles aren't working correctly. I have office pro plus 2016 and whenever I pin it to the start menu, it shows up with default icon and text instead of the shortcut I set. I've tried creating my own shortcut to the exe but it results in the same behavior. Could you possibly look into this? Thanks!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Sorry about that. Yes, Office and Firefox (possibly Chrome and others?) don't seem to work with their default shortcuts. I'll work on some way around this or at least a warning...! Thanks for reminding me :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Thanks a lot for the icon (and all your other help and suggestions), works nicely :) Let me know if there are any other suggestions you have and I'm glad it's working for you :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] JHthe4:
Thanks. Chrome works for me, so far I can only confirm Office 2016 as not working. Maybe it has something to do with the way the shortcuts are created. When I tried creating a shortcut to the exe myself, it also didn't work. I can however confirm that creating a custom shortcut works, maybe due to it being placed in a subfolder of the start menu directory?

When comparing the word shortcut to one for visual studio (the latter works), you can see a clear difference between the way windows handles the applications as evidenced here. It seems the word shortcut cannot be overwritten, while the shortcut to visual studio is modifiable by the user. Maybe this helps you.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] adni18:
Great utility!

Thank you for this great tool, it is the best tile customizer that exist so far!:good::good::good:
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Thank you - I'm glad it's working for you :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Spin360:
I have to agree, definitely the best tile app out there!

I just have one issue, which is that I can't get Icons for Word 2016 to work. Sometimes it changes to the tile I applied but shortly after it goes back to the standard one. What do?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Hey, I'm currently away and not able to do any development, but a workaround, or at least a warning will be added for these. Not sure why Office or Firefox shortcuts don't work yet, but there are some workaround instructions kindly written by AdamDesrosiers here.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Spin360:
Thanks a bunch, that worked :D
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Spin360:
Also another little thing that would be really neat:

Win10 Tile for example always remembered the folder where I got the last used tile. TileIconifier lacks this, so I have to search manually through the folders every time Google Chrome updates (when the tile resets).

Would be totally awesome if TileIconifier could save the last used loaction :D
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] KreNtal:
Yes, it would be really useful
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] TLH11:
Awesome!

Just perfect, It does all I needed.

I would love to be able to choose a transparent background.

Thanks! :D
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Estebanium:
Is it possible to also add a square tile option? I really like how the program is working, really easy and fluid.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Meesterlijk:
Is there a way that you can provide the Tileconifier iconhere?

Nice program, it Rocks!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Meesterlijk:
Main icon

Already found it, thanks:D
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Sorry all, was away for the last month, will soon take a look at the requests here..!

Should be simple enough to implement, no problem, will look into this.

Unfortunately I'm limited to what has been allowed within the VisualManifest by Microsoft - currently transparency is unavailable but if it ever becomes an option I'll be sure to make it possible.

Could you explain further how you mean? Both the options are square (small and medium), these are the only options available, unless I've misunderstood?

Thanks everyone for the useful feedback, will resume development on this shortly for the issues brought up :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Estebanium:
Oh I meant Wide. So is it possible to have Wide Tiles?
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Afraid not, same limitation as mentioned previously, I can only do what MS have allowed in their VisualManifest.xml. If it ever becomes an option, I'll be sure to add it :)
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Last used image path should now be preserved from the latest version (2.1.6005.31288). Let me know if this works as you hoped or if any further revision would be beneficial :)

I do have a suspicion the way Chrome updates it might not work as nicely as I hoped (I suspect it actually creates a whole new folder each time, so loses all the previous settings TileIconifier would have saved). I may need to do a work around of sorts for Chrome at some point.
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Spin360:
You are awesome!

Will try it as soon as I get home. If I don't forget that is.

Have a nice weekend!

Edit: typo
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Latest update allows a quicker way to create a custom shortcut replacement for your current shortcuts. The primary reason for this is to quickly create a replacement shortcut for Office or Firefox, as their default shortcuts seem to override the customizations.

Hope this helps reduce some complications getting those annoying ones how you want them to look!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] zenaufa:
Downloaded the latest version in github and i got this error, custom shortcut is also not working

anyway great apps, i really love it :D
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Eep. Sorry.. Will look at it now!
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
Could you paste the contents of "C:\ProgramData\TileIconify\Microsoft Word 2010\Microsoft Word 2010.vbs" here? That error is a little vague :(. Thanks
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] zenaufa:
here it is :)

'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

'--- AUTOGENERATED BY TILEICONIFIER - DO NOT MANUALLY EDIT ---

'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

'Custom Shortcut Type = "Other"

'Shortcut Name = "Microsoft Word 2010"

'Shortcut Path = "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\TileIconify\Custom Shortcuts\Microsoft Word 2010\Microsoft Word 2010.lnk"

Dim targetPath, targetArguments

targetPath = """C:\Windows\Installer\{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}\wordicon.exe"""

targetArguments = ""

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.CurrentDirectory = "C:\Windows\Installer\{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}"

WshShell.Run targetPath & " " & targetArguments, 5
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] Jonno12345:
That's odd, I can't seem to recreate the issue. It's also not quite where I'd expect the executable for Word 2010 to be (I'd have assumed something like "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Winword.exe"). Will have a think about this one. For the time being, could you see if you have that executable path I've mentioned, and whether replacing "C:\Windows\Installer\{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}\wordicon.exe" with that makes any difference (you might need admin rights to change the contents of the VBS).
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] zenaufa:
Changing the targetPath to my office install directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\winword.exe" fix it, i think the problem is with my office since i tried create custom shortcut for opera browser and no problem at all :D anyway, thanks for the update, really love that we can customize office and browser icon again, and also thanks for the help and fast response :D
[Windows 10, 8, 7, XP etc.] AdamDesrosiers:
Recent updates are very handy - love the quick 'custom shortcut' function.

There is a slight display issue on my laptop, that doesn't occur on my desktop computer. The icon doesn't fill the whole space for the preview window but leaves empty space to the bottom and right of the icon. in this image the brown background color will not show on the start menu - it's fully zoomed in. And if you zoom in further, you see how it crops the icon within that same slightly outta-place square.

Doesn't make the app less useful - just a strange quirk.