Microsoft'southward Alive tiles are incredible, incredible things in theory. They are primarily supposed to exist displaying blocks of useful information so users don't have to open up apps like the messaging app to see who just sent them a text..

Even so for some users, they may make things more hard than intended – often interfering with app visibility by surfacing random images over a tile logo or exposing sensitive information.

At present, there are iii ways of disabling live tiles on Windows 10, but while the first can exist washed from the GUI but is more than time intensive – especially if you take a more a few tiles, the second needs to be washed by Regedit and the 3rd requires a Windows 10 Pro and above subscription.

Via the GUI (Graphical User Interface)

  1. 1. Open up Start Menu
  2. 2. Right Click on the contentious tile, navigate to "More"
  3. 3. Select "Turn alive tile off"

Via Regedit

  1. This is available to users on Windows 10 Home, Windows ten Pro and above.
  2. Open the registry editor by typing Regedit into the search bar.
  3. . Navigate to the following key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pushnotications". – If this doesn't exist, then yous can create it.
  4. . Create a new 32-bit D-Discussion value, called "NoTileApplictionNotification"
  5. . Set its value to 1.
  6. . Reboot your PC to set its settings.
  7. To revert the changes, repeat steps 1-3, but then change the value of the D-Word created to "0" and then reboot.

Via Group Policy Editor

This is only available for Windows ten Pro and Enterprise users.

  1. .Open the grouping policy editor by typing gpedit.msc into the search/Cortana area and selecting "Edit Group Policy"
  2.  One time in the Group Policy app, navigate to User Configurations > Administrative Templates > Start Card and TaskBar > Notifications.
  3. Double click or double tap on the option that reads "Turn off toast notifications", this will enable it and consequently disable all tile notifications prompt.y These changes require no reboot.