Click on the tile to launch the MSN Weather program. No? Then it’s going to require a bit more work. If yours shows “ Turn live tile on” selecting it might be all you need to do for weather to start working! Check that by right clicking on the tile and following the menu:
Look closely above and you’ll see that while Photos is doing its thing, along with Money and News, Weather’s a dullard, showing a generic sun icon rather than the current weather.įirst possibility is that the tile’s “active tile” status is turned off. But… that can end up preventing the weather app from working! But if you’re like me, you pay close attention to which programs have access to your location, microphone, camera, etc. Photos is one that shows you a variety of pictures without any configuration and on most Win10.1 systems, the weather app’s tile also shows a mini-forecast for the current location on the weather app’s tile itself. There’s lots of ways you can customize your Start Menu if you’re curious. One of the concepts that has survived a couple of Windows upgrades is the idea of active tiles, tiles that actually display data of some sort, rather than just the name of the app.
I don’t often come across someone who was a fan of Windows 10, so props for that! You’re right that the full screen tile puzzle of the Start Screen in Win10 has become the pastiche of tiles that comprise the Windows 10.1 Start Menu.
