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Finally, in the Select field, navigate to the appвЂ™s EXE file and select it. InВ the Action Type field, select an action which in this case for us was Run Desktop app.

Next, name the tile and select the background color for it. The app will generate variants from that one image alone although, as you can see from the screenshot below, the wide image doesnвЂ™t look as good. If you donвЂ™t have four different sizes of the icon, click the вЂAuto generate all from a single imageвЂ™ button and select the one image you have. You donвЂ™t necessarily need an ICO file, a PNG does just as well.Дownload and run the Better StartMenu Helper and click one of the icon size boxes to individually select the icons for different tile sizes.

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The app costs $2.99 but as of a recent update, there are no differences between the paid and trial version with the developer only asking you to donate if you like the app.ДЇirst things first find the icon you want to use for an app and download it to your hard drive.

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Meet Better StartMenu an app that will let you create a custom icon for any app of your choice, and through its Windows Store version, you can pin it to the Start menu. If youвЂ™re looking for a way to create a custom app tile, image, color and all, thereвЂ™s a little app that lets you do just that. For app tiles that feature only an icon in a box, that box often looks ugly against whatever color has been set for the Start menu. To see the available sizes, right-click the tile, or tap and hold (if you have a touchscreen) and then access the Resize menu.Windows 10 is missing a pretty important and rather obvious feature it doesnвЂ™t let you customize the color of an app tile. While the app tiles can usually be Small, Medium, Wide and Large, shortcuts only come in Small and Medium. To illustrate, we have Mozilla Firefox 'playing the part' of the shortcut and Skype in the role of the static tile. Tiles do not, because Windows apps that have tiles are limited by Microsoft, so running them with administrator permissions is not an option. Shortcuts, unlike Windows tiles, offer you the option to run their apps as administrator.

When you right-click (or press and hold) a Windows tile, you get access to options that are not available for shortcuts: you can turn the live data display on or off, you can go directly to the app's settings, rate and review the app in the Microsoft Store, and share it with others.

You can resize them using the four available sizes, while traditional shortcuts only support two sizes.

Tiles can be a lot larger than shortcuts.

Users can turn off the display of live data if they want to. However, not all Windows tiles are animated all the time.

Tiles can display live data from their apps.

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Therefore, tiles can only point to Windows 10 apps from the Microsoft Store, and not to desktop apps that also run on older Windows versions such as Windows 7. To make things even more confusing, the Microsoft Store contains some desktop apps like iTunes, that do not use tiles, but traditional shortcuts.

Yes, you can pin shortcuts for desktop apps to your Start Menu, but it is essential to acknowledge that, although these shortcuts are shown inside squares that look just like Windows tiles, they are not tiles. That's because only traditional desktop apps, like those from Windows 7, can be distributed outside of the Microsoft Store.

If an app is not distributed through the Microsoft Store, then a Windows tile for that app is not available, only a traditional shortcut.

Let's discuss these differences in more detail: The differences between tiles and shortcuts in Windows 10

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