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    Help Start menu custom tiles ? Noob question

    Hi all,

    I'm trying to missus proof my win8 htpc and I've got most of it done now.

    I've found a remote keyboard mouse app (unified remote) that she can drive from her iPad and she can get to the win8 start menu. I've stripped it down to the absolute minimum, links to chrome, the Netflix app xbmc app and settings and that's about it but my question is this...

    I have bookmarks in chrome for Netflix,I player, 4od etc. is it possible to create a start menu tile for each of these so she can just click a tile for iPlayer etc, and if so how ?

    I'm a complete win 8 noob.

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    Default Re: Start menu custom tiles ? Noob question

    Create shortcuts in chrome (tools-->application shortcuts)

    Or create shortcuts that open in chrome the old fashion way: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app=https://www.google.co.uk/

    Then right click and "pin to start"

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    Default Re: Start menu custom tiles ? Noob question

    That's brilliant thanks, didn't know that option would be in chrome itself.

    Is it possible to set chrome to always start in full screen mode ?
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