How To Add My Computer Tile To Windows 8 Start Screen

Add My Computer Tile at Start Screen in Windows 8 :

The My Computer or Computer icon is uses to open Windows Explorer or File Explorer in Windows, which shows connected hard disk drives, CD/DVD drives, devices with removable storage and also free space available on each disk drive.

Windows 8 don't show the Computer icon on desktop by default, but without this icon Windows desktop looks incomplete. Even though you can launch Windows Explorer with the help of Windows + E hotkey, you may want to launch it by double-clicking on the Computer icon on the desktop. You can easily show the Computer icon on desktop by following the post, add My Computer icon to Windows 8 desktop.

Now come to  the topics that at Windows 8, Microsoft has replaced the Start menu with Start screen. After login to Windows 8 you will first see start screen and its used to search for installed applications, files and settings and view variety of information with the help of live tiles.

So I think its a great idea to pin Computer icon to this Start screen to quickly open Windows Explorer by avoiding Desktop.


You can add Computer icon to the Start screen by the following steps :

1. Press Windows logo key + E to open Windows Explorer.

2. On the left pane of the window, right-click on the Computer icon, and then click Pin To Start option to add Computer as a tile to the Start screen.

3.  The computer tile will appear right-end of the Start screen. You can move this new Computer tile to the beginning of the Start screen. To do this, click and hold the Computer tile and then move it towards the left of the Start screen and then release the click.