How to change number of row tiles in windows 8

By default, Windows 8 will try to figure out the number of rows it should show on your Start Screen based on the resolution of your monitor. 

What if you don’t want the number of rows it determines?

 Well, you can change it to a different value if you like. As you can see, I decided to show you 1,2 and 3 rows. You can choose a value from 1 to 5.

Go to Regedit or the registry editor.

 Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Grid

Create a new DWORD value here and name it Layout_MaximumRowCount. Give it a value between 1 and 5. Enjoy!

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