Privacy Protection Quick Erase Win8 Dynamic magnetic paste personal Information

The colorful tiles on the Microsoft Windows 8 Start screen are not just a quick entry for a variety of applications, for some applications that contain real-time updates, their dynamic magnets can automatically display real-time information, such as scrolling messages, Twitter updates, pictures, stock trends, weather information, news feeds, and so on, so to speak, Dynamic magnetic paste is the real-time notification window for these applications. However, such applications, such as mail, contacts and pictures, involve private information, which is not a pleasant thing to be seen in public. Is there any way to easily quickly clear all the information displayed for Win8 dynamic tiles?

Some friends say, you can right-click dynamic magnetic paste, from the bottom of the screen Operation menu, select "Turn off the dynamic magnetic paste", so that the selected magnetic paste will not scroll to display real-time information (the following image of the message, information applications). Indeed, this setting method can be used for dynamic magnetic paste to set whether to open real-time information display, but if the time is urgent, need to quickly turn off the dynamic magnetic paste information display, an application to set the application is not too late, and this setting method is completely off the magnetic paste information display. Here are a few ways to quickly clear the personal information from the Win8 Start screen tiles.

Diagram: Turn off Win8 dynamic tiles

Remove the tile personal information in the WIN8 Super button side bar

Press the "Win + I" key in the Win8 start screen or use your finger to move from the right side of the screen to the middle to pull out the Super button and select the "Set" gear icon, click on the screen right side sidebar above the "magnetic paste."

Icon: From the Win8 Super Button side bar into the survey settings

From the Win8 side bar into the tile interface, we can see a "remove personal information from my magnetic paste" setting, click the "Clear" button to the current tile display of all personal information to empty. Compared to the above and the bottom of the right, you can see pictures, stocks, weather and other magnetic paste information has been instantly closed.

Diagram: Quickly clear the personal information displayed by Win8 tiles

Delete history in Win8 computer settings

Press the "Win + I" key button in the Win8 Start screen or use your finger to move from the right side of the screen to the center and select the "set" gear icon and click "Change computer Settings" at the bottom of the sidebar on the right side of the screen.

Enter the WIN8 computer setup interface, find "General" in the left category, and click "Delete History" under "Apply toggle" on the right.

Diagram: Purge history in Win8 system settings

In addition to the methods described above, we can also set the WIN8 system state to shutdown to automatically clean up the tile history through Group Policy.

Set Win8 shutdown Auto Clean tile history with Group Policy

If it's a bit of a hassle to erase history from time to time, we can also use Group Policy to set the WIN8 to automatically clean up the tile history with the shutdown.

Press the shortcut key "Win+r" to enter "Gpedit.msc" (without quotes) in the Run window.

Diagram: Open Group Policy from the Win8 run window

Enter the WIN8 Local Group Policy Editor, select User Configuration – Admin templates – Start menu and taskbar, and on the right we can see "clear tile Notifications and history when exiting the system".

Diagram: Win8 Local Group Policy Editor

Double-click the clear tile notifications and history when exiting system Text option, select Enabled in the Pop-up Settings window, and then click OK at the bottom.

If this setting is enabled, the WIN8 system will delete the tiles notification when the user logs off. As a result, the tiles in the Start screen will always display their default content when the user logs on to the Win8. In addition, all cached versions of these notifications will be cleared when the user logs off.