Standardize the Start Screen for all users in Windows 8
In our Tile Locker post, we saw that the Windows 8 Start Screen Tile database files that contain the tile locations, layout and states are stored in the following files:
So if you wish to have the same start screen customizations for all the users, copy the appsFolder.itemdata-ms and place it into the following location:
C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Make the file Read Only.
This way all the users on a computer will have the same start screen customization.