I'm experiencing start 11 taskbar crashes as well. Particularly with external displays. I have a lot of windows open at the moment, and I was wondering if it only being a 32bit app could cause it to crash more often when under heavy load. Just speculating my hypothesis.

I can provide more information, provide dmp files, or create a new post if you'd like. 

I suspect the problem is Windows and Start11 deadlocking over the search engine.    I do software development and the problem happens most often for me when refactoring, searching, or heavy compilations that hits and/or changes thousands of files....

I'll be back eventually once they work it out.

Silly question... what's the difference between a crash and a hang? How will I know the difference?

A hang means the app stops responding.  So clicking on the desktop would for example turn it white etc.  A crash will cause explorer to restart itself on its own.

Same here. Unfortunately I use Dragon a lot. So I have to uninstall start 11, although I have paid for it. I guess the problem is Dragon is also trying to more or less control the start menu (we can see it in Windows 10, when we click on the start button, Dragon menu appears).

Wow.  You guys must be hard up for cash.  Set up a Patreon and I'll send a donation.

It's important to note that explorer is crashing even if Dragon is not loaded (although some Dragon services are loaded in the background like most programs).  But with Dragon active, the crashes occur much more frequently and I can "force" a crash as indicated above.  That said, 1.22 seems more stable overall but I have not tested with Dragon active.  Will try today and set the Dragon bar to floating to see if it makes a difference.  Thanks for your help on this issue.    

Unfortunately it often does not make business sense to pay out for a product almost 100x as expensive as Start11 (Dragon 15 pro - I don't know what version you are using specifically) to find an issue which might not be fixable from our end and only impacts a handful of users or might not even be able to be reproduced.  Multiply this by every app users might report problems with and it gets expensive fast.  Hence the need for trials.

A dmp file from a crash would be helpful as it would give us more information to work on in terms of cause.

Well just putting in an update, in the last week I have had a half dozen crashes of the explorer and Start 11 and Fences are the apps being called out by the crash dump app Stardock suggested, Ive sent in the reports each time.... Start 11 is about useless now. Hope Fences doesn't go the same route,

Has Stardock had any news on the issue?

Oh and I do NOT own or use Dragon...precisely because it is expensive and I have become disabled and handicapped and it would  make my life easier.  Life on Disability is much harder then when I was making 150k 

Understandable...but when chasing a bug, it's GOLDEN to find a situation where the bug can be duplicated easily.  

Anyway, I have the dmp file.  Where to send?

If you are able to host the file on a file sharing service (onedrive, dropbox, google drive) and share the link via private message to myself that would be great.

Yes that is the process I used and there was a send report button in there somewhere.  Next time Ill look closer.

If you have an Microsoft account you should have one drive. These instructions are for Windows 11.

1. make sure your onedrive is signed in (open onedrive, i.e.type its name in the search and make sure it signs in)

2. open explorer

3. on the very left hand side look for a folder named "OneDrive - Personal" and click to open the location

4. Add file you wish to share to that folder

5. right click the file you wish to share and click on the button "share"

6. Click the bottom option "copy link"

7. Copy the link and share the link with anyone you wish to see the file.