We confess, we do think that Metro’s user interface is as pretty as a rectangular grid gets. But you probably want to mix, match, group, and resize your icons to your specifications, not Microsoft’s.
Want to move tiles? Easy: Drag them around. Want to move a tile to its own column? Drag it on over – it’s exactly how you form new groups of apps. Want to shuffle an entire column’s worth of tiles around? First, click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower-right corner, and then move away. And although you can select multiple tiles by right-clicking on each, you can’t move a number of tiles en masse. Sorry!
Finally, resizing tiles – that can be resized – is as easy as right-clicking on the tile and selecting the “Smaller” or “Larger” option.