Ok that makes sense.  The primary reason I got Start 11 was so I could ungroup the icons on the task bar.  It's the feature limitation I hated most about Windows 11.  If I had to choose between ungrouping taskbar icons and the temperature display, ungrouping wins hands down.  Thanks for your help! 

FWIW, I noticed if I changed the alignment of the icons in the taskbar settings, the temperature would briefly appear before Start 11 moved the Start icon to the left.

Sometimes I get the standard Win 11 start menu.

Sometimes when clicking the start button, I get the standard Windows 11 menu not Start 11.   If I click the start button several more times, I eventually get the Start 11 menu.   It's intermittent (several times a day) and most of the time it works as expected.  No discernable pattern.

I'm on 1.2 latest but had this same issue pre 1.2
Windows 11 22000.556

I uninstalled and reinstalled it several times but the problem persists.

I am enjoying the enhancements brought by this version, especially with ungrouping buttons. However, I'm gonna post a list of things I think could or should be improved. I am on 22000.x builds of Win11, NOT dev/beta.

1. Enhanced taskbar moves the Start Button to the left and you can't change this. Because of this, the widgets/weather icon is just an icon. There is no text, temperature, weather conditions, etc. In my opinion, the Start button should be able to stay centered and all the taskbar buttons to the right of it, keeping them all centered.
2. Rarely I will click the Start Button and the native Win11 Start Menu opens. If I try again, it works fine. Not a huge deal but something that can probably be improved.
3. This is a big one I've noticed: Shift+Restart does NOT work when using Start11. It hasn't worked in previous versions and doesn't work here. Windows just restarts instead of going to the Recovery Environment. You can easily tell if its going to if it says "Please wait" or "Restarting" when you do Shift+Restart on the Start11 menu. "Please Wait = Recovery Environment". In order for this to work properly, I have to open the native Win11 menu and Shift+Restart from there.
4. Something to plan for ahead of time: MS is removing the ability to rearrange tray icons unless you individually turn off a bunch of icons then turn them back on in the order you want them (from Settings). This is very tedious. If a future version of Start11's taskbar can allow this functionality again, it will make a lot of people happy.
5. Lastly, another thing that I personally, and maybe others, would love to see for this enhanced taskbar is seconds in the system clock. With Win11, this registry option that used to work in Win10 stopped working. "ShowSecondsInSystemClock". It would be great if Start11 can bring that back.

The biggest issue I have so far with this release is that the thumbnails for active apps on the taskbar do not show when hovered over. They work as they should when start11 is NOT active but as soon as I turn on Start 11 sometimes they work for a while but then they stop completely again. 

This is what they look like without Start 11 active

After toggling Start 11 off and on they do work for a while but eventually stop working completely.

OS Version Build 22598
Start 11 Version 1.2

The area shown in the red box is severely scrolled and dropped frames.

i can't drag and drop an attachment to google chrome.

I move the file to the taskbar, but the chrome window doesn't open

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The biggest issue I have so far with this release is that the thumbnails for active apps on the taskbar do not show when hovered over. They work as they should when start11 is NOT active but as soon as I turn on Start 11 sometimes they work for a while but then they stop completely again. 

This is what they look like without Start 11 active



After toggling Start 11 off and on they do work for a while but eventually stop working completely.

Do you have something altering your thumbnails as that is unusually large?

I use WinAero tweaker to make them larger. It has never been an issue for native windows taskbar and still works 100% with the native Windows 11 taskbar. When I turn on Start11 sometimes they work, sometimes they don't no matter what size I make them with WinAero tweaker. 

Overall after several days of use I can say that version 1.2 is VERY unstable. On my machine it restarts itself seemingly randomly several times a day and sometimes I need to restart Explorer when taskbar and Start menu become corrupted. In no way this release is "release" quality, guys, more like still beta, or even alpha, I dunno

Quoting fpassantino,

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yes chrome is open, i try to upload an attachment to gmail via google chrome and dont work

same issue with paint.net i cannot drag&drop an image

with sublime text works, i can drag&drop a file

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There is an issue with bringing inactive windows to the foreground which is resolved in an upcoming build.

Number 1 is a limitation currently due to changes in Dev/Beta builds of Win11.  We didn't want to offer a feature and then take it away so until we have a solution for that we have to enforce the left alignment.

On number 2, do you use elevated apps at all?  Would this be happening when one is foreground?

On number 3, This has been addressed for the next update.  I am unsure how it went missed all this time but thank you for reporting it.

On number 4, Exactly why Microsoft are doing this I don't know.  It may be this reappears in the future as it seems like lack of time to reimplement rather than any other reason.

I cannot promise anything with number 5 as it is a rather niche need.

I am using a mouse. This happens on 2 different laptops both of which do not have touchscreens or pens. 

Do use elevated apps?