The Start screen feels completely alien in Windows 8. Press the
Windows key and you’re whooshed from your desktop to a completely
different environment with a completely different background that’s
separate from your desktop background. If you want to set a custom
background for your Start screen, well, you can’t — you can only choose
from among the handful of weird Start screen backgrounds that Steven
Sinofsky decided to give you.
Windows 8.1 deals with this by providing an option to “Show my desktop background on Start.” It sounds like a small change, but using the same background on your Start screen makes it feel much less out of place. When you go to the Start screen, it will look as if the tiles (or list of installed apps) are hovering over your desktop rather than existing in a different environment.
Below: example of desktop background set on start screen
Windows 8.1 deals with this by providing an option to “Show my desktop background on Start.” It sounds like a small change, but using the same background on your Start screen makes it feel much less out of place. When you go to the Start screen, it will look as if the tiles (or list of installed apps) are hovering over your desktop rather than existing in a different environment.
Below: example of desktop background set on start screen
To enable this option: right-click the taskbar, select Properties,
click the Navigation tab, and check the “Show my desktop background on Start” option.
Below: example of desktop background set on start screen
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