Tiles not working at all.

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Tiles is not working at all for me - doesn`t matter how many windows I have open, - not one shows up in the side bar.

All tiles seems to do is take up resources - my PC has slown down to a crawl.

Yes - I`ve run virus and malware scans - nothing found .

And yes I`ve gone through the configuration carefully and re-installed.

I`m also running windows Blinds , Decor8, Start8 , Modern Mix and fences. - I opened a subscription to get this "last piece of the Stardock jigsaw" but I`m beginning to wonder what I`m paying for - one of the included programs is broken (The Themes manager) and looks like its staying that way, and now this doesn`t work either.

Not a happy bunny.

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Have you switched pages in tiles as the my tiles page only shows shortcuts you have manually added by default.

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If i understood what you meant by that I could answer you, -"switch pages"? -I haven`t added any to switch to..

Pretty sure the answer is no anyway - I uninstalled it. rebooted, Re-installed it and authorized/registered it again then started it, -and it is not showing any open windows from the word go - in a new installation without doing anything at all.

its windows 8 Pro on a 1920 x 1080 x 32 touchscreen display

I`m running:-

Fences

Modern mix

Deskscapes 8

Windows FX

Decor 8

Start 8

My understanding was that Tiles is supposed to show Open windows in thumbnails in the side column as a replacement / refinement of the task bar.

( "With Tiles you can quickly view and manage your running
applications by simply looking to the edge of your screen." ) <-----------from the readme file.

Why should I have to "add" programs to it? - does it not display ALL open windows with the config set up to do so? (or SHOULD it? I mean...).?

Edit:- I have uninstalled it, re-booted, re-installed it and re-registered it then I`ve systematically gone through every config variation with the side bar maximized.

Each time , I have clicked each tab in the maximized sidebar looking for the "thumbnails". -Not one has appeared.

Also the PC has slowed to an absolute crawl - so bad now that I have uninstalled it completely. -trying to play music is impossible with this running - the processor maxes out so often that the sound is AWFUL.

Wish I`d known this before I subscribed to the Desktop subscription, - I already had the above apps, (the useful ones..). -The extra one`s I got seem to be a mix of old apps & broken apps (Theme manager?) .

I may yet try it on one of my other PC`s - a windows 7 machine probably but I can`t see myself putting it back on my main PC.

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