Windows 8 provides the possibility of arranging the tiles on your start screen into groups and and giving them an meaningful name. I find that feature quite handy and used it to organize the apps and programs on my devices.

Apparently, this feature is not widely known and too well hidden by Microsoft, because I have been asked by quite a few people lately how this can be done.

So here’s a quick step by step guide on how to arrange your start screen tiles into named groups.

Let’s say I want to create a group for my productivity apps and programs and call it “Tools”.

First, arrange the apps and program tiles into a separate group by dragging and dropping them.

Then, use the Semantic Zoom (pinch and stretch gesture, Ctrl-Key + Mouse Wheel, Ctrl-Key + Minus-Key or clicking into lower right corner) feature to zoom out into the overview perspective.

In this perspective select (tap or right-click) the group you want to name. The command bar appears and gives you the option to specify a name for the selected group of apps.

Enter the desired name (here “Tools”) and you’re done.