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How To Reset Windows 8.1 Start Screen To Its Default

Last Updated on December 9, 2013 by admin 2 Comments

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The Start screen, Start menu replacement introduced with Windows 8, has been enhanced in many ways in the recently released Windows 8.1 update. In addition to new tile sizes, Bing search, personalization options, the Start screen in Windows 8.1 doesn’t get cluttered, as Windows 8.1 doesn’t automatically pin all installed apps and desktop programs to the Start screen.

Instead, in Windows 8.1, all installed apps and programs appear in Apps view screen and one needs to manually right-click on an app shortcut in the Apps screen and then click Pin to Start option to pin a program to the Start screen.

Reset Windows 8.1 Start Screen to its default

If you have personalized the Start screen by pinning apps, adding new tiles with the help of third-party programs, arranging tiles, and creating new groups, and now feel that the default Start screen layout with original tiles was better, you can easily reset the Start screen to its default layout by executing three simple commands.

When you reset the Start screen layout, Windows 8.1 will unpin all pinned tiles and created groups, and will keep only tiles that were on the Start screen when Windows 8.1 was installed.

Note that it’s possible to backup Start screen layout and restore the layout by following our how to backup and restore Start screen layout in Windows 8.1 guide. We recommend you back up the personalized Start screen layout before resetting the layout so that you can quickly restore the personalized layout in a jiffy.

Complete the given below instructions to successfully reset the Start screen to its default:

Step 1: Open Command Prompt as administrator. To do that, type CMD in the Start screen and then simultaneously press Ctrl + Shift + Enter keys to launch elevated Command Prompt. You can follow our how to open Command Prompt as administrator in Windows 8/8.1 to know all ways to open Command Prompt with admin rights.

How to Reset Windows 8.1 Start Screen to its default

Step 2: In the elevated Command Prompt, execute following commands:

del %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\appsFolder.itemdata-ms

Press enter key.

del %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\appsFolder.itemdata-ms.bak

Press enter key.

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Press enter key to restart Windows Explorer.

Reset Start Screen in Windows 8.1

Step 3: That’s it! Click on the Start button on the taskbar or press Windows logo key on the keyboard to see the default Start screen.

How to set custom picture as Start screen background, automatically change Start screen background color, and how to set animated background or video as Start screen background articles might also interest you.

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Filed Under: Windows 8.1 Tagged: Customize Windows 8.1, Start Screen

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Comments

  1. admin says

    January 14, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    It will be right here. Where will we go?:)

  2. Sharon says

    January 14, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    Very informative hope it’ll be here when I might need it again in the future, because I’ll surely have to check it out again till I get the hang of it but I do like it. Just need to manage to be more organized with it but that will come.

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