I have several tablets to deploy. These start metro screens must be the same. The tablets are not on a domain, but stand alone.

Thru the internet i came across the following idea:

Copy appsfolder.itemdata.ms (and .bak) to the c:\user\appdata\local\microsoft\windows en make the file read only afterwards. Restart and the metro screen is copied to another user.

My tablet is WIndows 8.1 Pro but above method does not give me a new metro screen.

The user where the file is copied to is a standard user not an administrator.

I must deploy a few tablets and it would be nice to have a standard metro screen without a domain with gpo etc.

How to achieve start screen customization during deployment is explained here

Above web page is a deployment thru imaging. I am using MDT2013 for images pc's and laptops. I have not dived in to deployment thru images on tablets, so do not have enough knowledge about that.

Tablets we don't have so much so i configure the tablets manually.

Hello Freddie,

Do you mean that you want to Customize the Start Screen?

If yes, you could refer to the following article.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn467928.aspx

If you want to capture the Images by MDT, please refer to the following article.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/08/04/mdt-2013-part-i-mdt-configuration-capture-a-windows-server-2012-r2-base-os-image.aspx

Best regards,

Fangzho