Tile Rows on Surface RT

[dev_sec]

I don't know if this topic has been brought up before... Why is the Surface RT limited to three rows of tiles (top to bottom in landscape)? Seems there is plenty of room for a 4th row. In addition maybe add three tile sizes like Win Phone 8. Your thoughts?

Permanent resolution:

.reg begin -->

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Scaling]
"MonitorSize"="15.4"

<-- end

Reboot after adding the reg value.

One more thing - after doing this, flip to portrait mode, swipe Settings -> Tiles -> "Show more tiles" to enable a total of 9 rows in portrait.

Note that this only affects the modern ui; and, only scales to the minimum permittable font scaling for the actual resolution.

 

[ArnoldC]

A tweak for the Retina display

I see it came from here - Windows 8 Release Preview user interface is small on a MacBook Pro with Retina display and I never wanted to try because I don't have a Mac. Ha ha ha

@dev_sec, did you actually do it? Scaling is no longer in RT.

 

[jnjroach]

I just did the Reg Hack and it does work, it makes the Modern UI fit more data in the App, no side scrolling in Mail, Zino Magazines are much more readable. But it does make the keyboard much smaller as well though.

 

[ArnoldC]

Did you apply the scaling as well?

update:

My setting is 14, and applied a scaling of 125%. That doesn't change the size of the on-screen keyboard though. This mod may be useful if you work with Touch or Type or BT keyboards, but makes the on-screen keyboard useless, unless you type with one finger.

 

[jnjroach]

I didn't, but I'm going to test with a higher DPI....Stay tuned

 

[ZachBui]

wow awesome! That registry edit actually works =) surface

here's a regkey if people don't want to open regedit by themselves.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/m8cvrj - for 13.1

 

[jnjroach]

Changing the DPI did little to change the size of the keyboard. I might test MonitorSize of 13.1

 

[jnjroach]

13.1 is a much better experience, still gets you 4 tiles and a larger on screen keyboard.

 

[ZachBui]

awesome thank you =)

 

[ArnoldC]

13.1 is a much better experience, still gets you 4 tiles and a larger on screen keyboard.

Ditto. Best compromise.
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[joga]

Aw: Tile rows on Surface RT

Very cool, works perfectly.
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[d31dk]

Great  Thank you for this reg. This is great, makes "metro" much better on the surface!
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