Just drag the tiles you want in a group to an open area of the Start menu. I am moving the Microsoft News tile from the “Explore” group to the “Productivity” group in the example below.Ĭreate Your Own Tile Groups on the Start Menuīut let’s take a look at creating a new custom group of tiles. The process is similar to rearranging icons on your smartphone. You can easily add more tiles to those existing groups by dragging them to an existing group. For example, you will see a “Productivity” and “Explore” group of app tiles. When you first get started with Windows 10, you will see some tiles are already in groups. Tile Groups on the Start Menu in Windows 10 One of those is arranging them into individual groups. There is a lot of customization you can do with tiles on the Start menu. For instance, 7-zip or other file archiving apps, or if you pin system settings to the Start menu, those tiles won’t be live.

Other app tiles and system items are static and just display what they are.

Live tiles on desktop