Mark the following line with the greater-than and lower-than-sign, copy it and paste it as the new filename for your shortcut.
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The invisible unicode character ZERO WIDTH SPACE (written in HTML as ​) is in between them. When you copy that line, Windows Explorer will remove the greather-than and lower-than sign automatically and you have a shortcut without any name.
WARNING: The script runs without confirmation and feedback. It worked for me (see PS2), but I don't know if it would work for everybody.
From this and this, I made the following script, which did the thing for me:
(New-Object -Com Shell.Application).
NameSpace('shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}').
Items() |
%{ $_.Verbs() } |
?{$_.Name -match 'Un.*pin from Start'} |
%{$_.DoIt()}
It unpins all programs from start menu.
For non-english Windows, you should probably replace 'Un.*pin from Start' by another sentence.
Run
(New-Object -Com Shell.Application).
NameSpace('shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}').
Items() |
%{ $_.Verbs() }
To check what's yours. In French : '&Désépingler de la page d''accueil'
PS: previous command may print long list which is hard to look through manually. You could see actions for some known application in the start screen by the command (substitute the name to match, for me it was KeePass):
(New-Object -Com Shell.Application).
NameSpace('shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}').
Items() | ?{$_.Name() -match 'Keep.*'} |
%{ $_.Verbs() }
PS2: @MarcoLackovic reported that it does not remove all. Recently I had a chance to try it and it indeed did not remove all. What was left were references to Windows Store. Looks like the script only scans through installed applications, so it does not remove other icons. I would suspect it also skips pinned documents, for example.
Best Answer
If you cannot find it in application options (look for a gear icon in application) then most likely tile content customization is not possible within given application.
This also applies to the Calendar app. Even with the biggest tile, only 3-4 events can be shown and 7 days won't fit*.
There is an alternate way to keep all information like next 7 days from the calendar at hand: arrange desired app(s) on separate desktop (use multi-desktop feature) so you can quickly check this "informational desktop" and return.
The check can be convenienty made using the keyboard. Related shortcuts are
So with the calendar permanently open, you can use one shortcut to display it and one to hide it. Of course, the information at the tile (as you requested) could be reachable more easily, but on the other hand, with second desktop you are not limited by space of the tile and you can instantly peek at it whenever you need. You gain flexibility beyond tile view – better view configuration (think about more info apps at the same desktop) and immediate interaction – you can edit displayed week or to do list (or whatever else) right away.
*) Out-of-the-box tiles are keeping certain design rules, including look of icons, minimum spacings or minimum font sizes. In case of Calendar app, I think that displaying of 7 days on a tile would require very small font etc. Displayed among neighboring tiles, such a tile would look like a defaced piece. I think no designer will allow such a thing, and not only in area of user interface design. Maybe some 3rd-party developer can supply an app with ugly-but-extremely-useful tile, but I would not expect this from the Microsoft, they would be going against themselves.