I'm trying out Start11 on Windows 11 with a small taskbar. The problem is it wastes a lot of space: between task's icon and name, between tasks. Wish this space were used to show more of task names instead.

I have an issue with pinning items to start11 (Windows 10 style menu). The icon is thrown to the top of the current icons and displaces those currently in place. Takes time to clean up. Icons should be appearing on the bottom of the screen. 

Is Start 11 now responsible for broken drag-to-open-programs functionality to be broken? Before I could drag some files from Desktop to the open letter in The Bat! and they become attachments, now it is not possible (stop sign when trying to do that). And also all functionality of drag to attach/open for various websites is also broken - even if website says "drag files here to open them" and before it was working, now it is not possible. So the question is - is Start11 responsible or Microsoft again changes this fundamental functionality essentially removing it?

If you are dragging without any interaction with the taskbar then Start11 will not be responsible for this.

Start11 is only involved when dragging files over the taskbar in which case Start11 will then bring the window under the mouse to the top.  It does not get involved otherwise.

This is a bug I've been having for a very long time, through quite a few Start11 updates including the most recent: Sometimes (but not always), when I have Outlook running and click on the taskbar icon to bring it forward, or to see the open windows popup, it opens a new instance of the program instead.

This doesn't happen with any other programs, just Outlook. =/

Start11 1.24 release version
Windows Edition: Windows 11 Home
Version: 21H2
OS build: 22000.675
Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22000.675.0

Hi

I am still getting this issue that if I hover over an icon on the toolbar (eg Outlook) then it shows another app (in this case Slack). If I click on the Icon (ie Outlook) it will then open Slack. SO too open Outlook I have to use ALt-Tab

Great if you could fix this

Thank you!

Awesome, thanks!

Hi,

prior to 1.24 it was able for me to change the taskbar color to black, choosing black now results in a grey. Did I miss something here?

Changing to other colors works without problems.

Thx & Greetings

Quoting KolbyG,

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So far, 1.24 seems to be the most stable yet. I had to uninstall Start 11 for a bit as there were a ton of performance/crashing issues in the last couple of versions. We'll see if these reappear long-term, but so far so good.

 

A couple of things I've noticed so far:

 

With a two-row, small-sized taskbar, the tray icons all appear behind the clock.



Changing to one row fixes it although they look a bit cramped. Perhaps a small taskbar should only have one row of tray icons per taskbar row? Or shrink the icons slightly, if that's even possible.



The two-row taskbar also appears to be even more broken in medium size, the clock and notification button are completely gone. Clicking the blank spot in the corner does nothing.



 

I've also noticed that occasionally on my vertical monitor, the clock becomes offset and is partially cut off at the bottom of the screen. I haven't been able to reliably reproduce this issue though, and an explorer restart always seems to fix it.

 

Start11 v1.24

Win11 build 22000.675

I have a similar issue to this, reported here: https://forums.stardock.com/513019/page/1/#3855637

After running 1.24 for a couple of weeks I can confirm that the performance issues are better, but still not fixed.

The taskbar is generally quite responsive and after a reboot, it's usually fine for a few hours. Then it seems to have periods where it will just completely freeze (mouse over animations stop working), and clicking on the buttons has about a 10-15 second delay between click and action. If you perform a bunch of actions (clicking on multiple windows in the taskbar) while it's frozen they will all happen at the same time after 10-15 seconds once it starts responding again. This was MUCH worse in previous Start11 versions and as I mentioned before, it got so bad I had to uninstall it for a while. I used to see this much more frequently and 60s+ delays, so it is better, but still not perfect.

Sometimes this will happen once and then be fine for a few more hours, other times it's over and over again. Restarting explorer seems to fix it sometimes, other times I have to reboot.

Win11 22000.739 (happened on last month's build as well)
Start11 1.24

Since this is a performance-related report, relevant machine specs:
Ryzen 3900X
64GB RAM
PCIe SSDs

Also monitor arrangement, in case that matters:
1 - 3840x2160 (100% scaling)
2 - 3840x2160 (150% scaling)
3 - 3840x2160 (150% scaling, vertical/portrait mode)

I have the same issue with not being able to set Taskbar colour to black but have found a workaround which works for me. In the colour picker I chose black (but I think any colour will do) then set values for Red, Green and Blue = 1. Not exactly black but so close that it does not matter.

Hope this helps

Which search style in Start11 are you using?  Start11 or Start10 style?