Set Default Windows 8 Start Screen

Hello,
I'm trying to find a way to set the Start Screen with a simple command or script on every computer I image. I tried going through the GPO route but that locks the start screen completely so users cannot then add their own icons to it. We have a standard
image that comes with a Start Screen layout that we would like to modify but cannot modify the unattend.xml because it is company wide. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks.

Hi,
If you want to customize the Start Screen,we need to use MDT tool to implement this work.
We can manually customize the Start Screen, then use CopyProfile to apply the customizations to the default user profile.
Also,I would like to share the following link with you:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2012/10/26/start-screen-customization-with-mdt.aspx
Regard,
Kelvin hsu
TechNet Community Support

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Hi Ian, and a warm welcome to the forums!
OSX will mess up the HD if space gets too low, Free space isn't really ours to use anymore.
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
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GPO to set default Windows 7 Display scaling to 125%

We have some new Windows 7 laptops with 1080P LCD displays and it is a bit hard for the majority of the mostly older users to deal with the smaller menus and text.
We would like to set the default Display scaling to 125% so it is more readable and menus are easier to navigate and easier click on the X's for the majority of people.
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Hi MyGposts,
According to your description, you would like to deploy GPO which could change the default scalling to 125 without preventing users from changing it back to100%. Right?
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontDPI] "LogPixels"=dword:00000078
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\HardwareProfiles\0000\Software\Fonts]
"LogPixels"=dword:00000078
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles\0001\Software\Fonts]
"LogPixels"=dword:00000078
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontDPI] * This has
to be deleted if
it already exists
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"LogPixels"=dword:00000078
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to read
what's on
your screen"
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HI,
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Hi,
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Karen-
Results: Did not work. The web based shortcuts did not appear.
Below is the steps taken with your tips incorporated. (Again it's lengthy sorry about that, but anyone can recreate what was done here. Maybe someone can see something left out by doing/reviewing it).
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2. During setup created the admin account.
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******BUG******
Concise problem statement:
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4. Remove unused assets
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Hold down the shift key when booting into Mac OS X. this will check your file structure and do a repair. This will also leave off some files from being used.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
"What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? (Mac OS X) "
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564?viewlocale=en_US
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Your Mac won't start up in Mac OS X (Mac OS X 10.3.9 or earlier).
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You need to get into single use mode.
This page will tell you how to get into single user mode.
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When you are in single user mode, you are in Unix. you can try looking in the log files to see if you can find anything.
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dmsg
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/Library/Logs/CrashReporter
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???.crash.log VoiceCenter.crash.log
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I have two questions, Im going to deploy Windows 8 to our company, but have 2 big issues.
1) I need to customize the start screen, but cant find anywhere in the gpo´s? How can I do this without sysprepping etc (deploying with SCCM2012 SP1)
2) I need to set the default programs for adobe reader, mspaint etc, how can I do this? It doesnt work with the GPP and folder options, anyone have done this?
Thanks in advance

Hi,
Thanks for posting your question in the forum. First of all, if you want to deploy customized Windows 8 Start Screen for domain users, I suggest we could refer to the following similar threads
and article.
Group Policy for Windows 8 Start
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/winserver8gen/thread/13a13c25-a1b2-4665-ab67-a2f9bc3b9bba
GPO Management for Windows 8 Start Screen?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/W8ITProPreRel/thread/2d4bdcc6-3733-470e-939f-8b6eb0ef4492/
Windows 8 Start Screen Customization with MDT
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2012/10/26/start-screen-customization-with-mdt.aspx
Regarding the second question, since you want to set the default programs via Group Policy but it didn’t work. Would you please let me know how did you configure the setting? Please refer to
the following steps to configure the GPO setting.
To create a new Open With preference item
Open the
Group Policy Management Console. Right-click the Group Policy object (GPO) that should contain the new preference item, and then click
Edit.
In the console tree under
User Configuration, expand the Preferences folder, and then expand the
Control Panel Settings folder.
Right-click the
Folder Options node, point to New, and select
Open With.
In the
New Open With Properties dialog box, select an Action for Group Policy to perform.
Enter Open With settings for Group Policy to configure or remove.
Click the
Common tab, configure any options, and then type your comments in the
Description box.
Click
OK. The new preference item appears in the details pane.
For details, please refer to the following article.
Configure an Open With Item
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732272.aspx
In addition, I suggest we could collect the following information to narrow down the cause of the issue.
GPMC.log
==================
a. On domain controller, click Start ->Run, type GPMC.MSC, it will load the GPMC console.
b. Right click on "Group Policy Result" and choose wizard to generate a report for the problematic computer and user account (please place appropriately). (Choose computer and select
the proper user in the wizard)
c. Right click
the resulting group policy result and click the "Save Report…" => save report to save the report to a HTML file.
Hope this helps.
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Make start screen tiles open new window by default?

let me preface this by saying "I like the windows 8 start screen and I don't miss the start menu."
but.
the default behavior for start screen tiles seems to be "take me to the open instance of this application."
if I click the notepad tile to open notepad, it opens notepad. if I click the tile again, it takes me to that notepad I just opened the first time I clicked the tile. if I want to open two instances of notepad, I have to right-click the tile and then
choose "open new window," which may or may not be on the complete opposite corner of the screen from my notepad tile.
for what it's worth, this was not the behavior in the old start menu.
is there a registry hack or group policy I can put in to say "start tiles always open a new instance of desktop apps"? I use two monitors and have a lot of things open. sometimes I might not even remember that I have notepad (or remote
desktop, or excel, or powershell) running until I've already clicked the tile "again" instead of right-clicking and choosing "open in new window." this may seem like a minor thing, but it just seems like something I should have a *choice*
on.
the unfortunate flip side of this is that the new dual-monitor taskbar does what exactly what I want the start screen to do, but what I DON'T want the taskbar to do. that is, if I:
A. have a outlook pinned to the taskbar on my primary monitor
B. have outlook open on my second monitor
C. click the pinned outlook icon on the first monitor
windows opens a new instance of outlook instead of just taking me to the open instance. and as if to twist the knife and say "i'm doing this wrong on purpose," it opens this new instance on the second monitor, right in front of the first
instance.
so the start screen knows if outlook is open on either monitor, but the taskbar on monitor1 doesn't know/care if outlook is open on monitor2.
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For those domain administrators need to push this to multiple users, but don't want to change the registry setting on each and every users (could be hundreds, or even thousands of them), here is a GPO template I made so you can push the registry change
to selected domain users and groups.
Just paste the following into an ADM file (i.e. AlwaysLaunch.adm) and then create a new GPO and import it under
Administrative Templates, then apply the GPO to the domain users and groups that you want to apply this behavior to.
CLASS USER
CATEGORY !!CustomBehavior
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Launcher"
POLICY !!AlwaysLaunchNewInstance
  EXPLAIN !!AlwaysLaunchNewInstanceHelp
  PART !!AlwaysLaunchNewInstance DROPDOWNLIST REQUIRED
   KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Launcher"
   VALUENAME "DesktopAppsAlwaysLaunchNewInstance"
   ITEMLIST
    NAME !!Disabled VALUE NUMERIC 0
    NAME !!Enabled VALUE NUMERIC 1 DEFAULT
   END ITEMLIST
  END PART
END POLICY
END CATEGORY
[strings]
CustomBehavior="Custom Behavior Settings"
AlwaysLaunchNewInstance="Always Launch New Instance When Running An App"
Enabled="Enabled"
Disabled="Disabled"
; explains
AlwaysLaunchNewInstanceHelp="When running a new application, normally it will go to an existing one if it is already open. Most of the time this is undesirable, and you want a new instance to run."

How do you either set "Show More Tiles" or Start Screen rows via command line or script for Windows 8.1?

Is there a method to change the Start Screens number of rows (similar to Windows 8.0's use of the Explorer\Scaling\MonitorSize in registry). Possibly by forcing the switch for "Show More Tiles" via script etc? This is to enable the device with
Windows 8.1 to be built using a deployment methodology like SCCM and have the Tiles correctly configured as required for a standard look and feel across devices. I do not know why all these switches are not represented in either WMI or the registry to enable
the customization of look and feel out of the box for enterprise deployments.
Thanks for any assistance possible.

Hi,
You can try steps in this article.
How to Change Number of Apps Tile Rows on "Start" Screen in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2690-start-screen-metro-apps-change-number-rows-windows-8-a.html
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When I click on the Nightly Windows 8 Start Screen icon it opens the Firefox 18 on desktop, how do I open Nightly on Metro?

Nightly was working on metro at first when I haven't installed Firefox 18 yet but when I installed Firefox 18 and thought it would run on metro if I set it as a default program which did not, opening nightly both on the desktop and start screen would open the firefox in the desktop instead.
I uninstalled Nightly and downloaded and installed the version 20 for 32 bit. When I looked on the default programs to set Nightly all I could see is Nightly on the list but the icon has changed to that of Firefox's. I set it as default and still it doesn't open as metro.
Any ideas how to fix this?

This is because the regular central Nightly channel builds is only the desktop version. The version on Nightly development channel is at 21.0a1 now actually.
You need a build that has Metro support.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-elm/
Many users state they cannot get Metro version to work on 32-bit Windows anyways.
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