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ONLINE —The ArcGIS Online/Bing Maps/Google Maps tiling scheme is used. This is the default.The ArcGIS Online/Bing Maps/Google Maps tiling scheme allows you to overlay your cache tiles with tiles from these online mapping services. ArcGIS Desktop includes this tiling scheme as a built-in option when loading a tiling scheme. When you choose this tiling scheme, the source map must use the WGS 1984 Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere) projected coordinate system.The ArcGIS Online/Bing Maps/Google Maps tiling scheme is required if you'll be overlaying your package with ArcGIS Online, Bing Maps, or Google Maps. One advantage of the ArcGIS Online/Bing Maps/Google Maps tiling scheme is that it is widely known in the web mapping world, so your tiles will match those of other organizations that have used this tiling scheme. Even if you don't plan to overlay any of these well-known map services, you may choose the tiling scheme for its interoperability potential.The ArcGIS Online/Bing Maps/Google Maps tiling scheme may contain scales that would be zoomed in too far to be of use to your map. Packaging for large scales can take up much time and disk storage space. For example, the largest scale in the tiling scheme is about 1:1,000. Packaging the entire continental United States at this scale can take weeks and require hundreds of gigabytes of storage. If you aren't prepared to package at this scale level, you should remove this scale level when you create the tile package.

Adding a program to the Windows 10 Start Menu is as simple as a right-click. If you wish to pin a program, just search for it in the Start Menu and select the option Pin to Start. The selected program will be added as a tile to the right section of the Start Menu. But this only works as long as the apps are already a part of the Start Menu. Also, there is no option to customize these tiles and one has to work on the default icon that’s set by the app.

Back in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, OblyTile was the go to program for such tasks. But the app does not function in Windows 10 and here there was a time to look for an alternative. While browsing XDA the other day, I came across an alternative to OblyTile using which one can create custom tiles in Windows 10. However, the app doesn’t work out of the box and requires some advanced settings to get the pinned apps working.

TileCreator for Windows 10

By using TileCreator along with a TileCreator Proxy for the task, tiles on the Start Menu can be customized. The TileCreator can be downloaded from the Windows Store and will be installed as a Modern App in the Start menu. After you install the app from the Store, download and run the TileCreator Proxy as administrator.

It’s basically a script that runs in the background for the Tile Creator main app and gives it the path of the apps that are pinned to the Start Menu. Once the file is executed as an admin, you will see a file called ApprovedApps.config in C:TileCreator. Open the file using Notepad and leave it for a while. We will get back to it later.

Launch TileCreator from the Start Menu to add a file or a program as a tile. You will be needing the path to the file that would be pinned to the Start Menu using the Tile Creator. The app will ask you to add a name of the app along with icon image along with an Approved Apps Key. This key needs to be added to the ApprovedApps.config in C:TileCreator.

In the file, add a key name along with the path to the file you wish to add. For example, you can see that for Slack I have added the keyword as slack along with the path to the app, including the file name. Having done that, save the notepad file and head back to the TileCreator app.

Tile Image Creator

Finally, in the TileCreator app, give a name of the app along with the app’s key used in the configuration file. You can do a simple Google Image search and give an appropriate icon for the file or app you are adding. Once everything is in place, click on the Pin Tile button. If the tile doesn’t appear instantly, restart the Windows Explorer and launch the Start Menu again.

Note: If you are getting an Open With screen when you click on a custom tile, delete the C:TileCreator folder and install TileCreator Proxy again. But make sure you run it as admin this time.

Conclusion

I understand the fact that TileCreator is a bit tricky to use when compared to OblyTile, but keeping in mind the Windows 10 restriction, this is the easiest way out there. It will take time just for the few initial programs you try to add. Soon you will get the hang of it. If you still have any doubts about it, you need only to ask.

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