Again, it helps a bit. Transparency appeared but 11% of Menu is not the same as 11% of Taskbar.

How could I download the previous version (1.38 or earlier) to show how it was?

Thank you for your help.

Star11 on Steam is still on version 1.36 and keeps saying there isn't an update.

Is there a way to get faster updates if I bought via Steam? If I manually download v1.39 and install it, will it update or create issues with the license?

Or short the time needed for a new release to get to Steam? It's been more than a week now.

Thanks

Because there is not one yet available for Steam.

To be completely frank, the reason Steam releases are delayed are that Steam clients will review the app\game poorly if there are ANY issues - rarely seeking support prior to doing so.

That said, once we resolve some lingering issues with 1.39, it wont be long for a Steam release.

The license will work but if you ever need to activate Start11 again, you will have to install the Steam version to do so. 

Thanks for the feedback.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Just wanted to add on to this. I can't get a video right now but I see the search issue as well. Searching for disk management in Start11 search yields no results. Searching for it in Win11 native search pulls up a result. I have "Use old Start10 style search" OFF.

Start11 Search (Win10 Menu):

Windows 11 Native Search:

Windows 10- 22h2 19045.2546

Start11- 1.39

Using the Win7 Grid style, when I click All Programs, the list has all black text. The problem is I have a black menu. The text is black regardless if I am in light or dark app mode, unlike the pop up or PLACES menu issue (eg, recents) where light mode has the text in the color I specified in skin studio and dark mode has all white text. V 1.36 did not have this issue, as text in both light or dark was rendered in the specified color. I can send the skin if that would help.

...And on the subject of dark mode, since there are very few skinners who actually produced complete dark skins (going to the trouble of text colors being readable on dark backgounds) and these were created before the dark options were available, I don't like the way WB 11 or SS11 auto adjusts our dark skins, designed when there were only light mode options, to be darker than specified. Many just turn out totally black. If there could be a way to let SS  know that "this skin IS a dark skin, but was made before the dark options were there. Then take all of the color settings and apply those to the dark settings. Stardok can auto adjust the lighter settings for the standard or light mode. i, and probably the other skinners, don't care if you do an "auto light mode" or not, because we don't do light mode, and didn't make our dark skins that way. We made them to be dark when we only had one mode, by jumping backwards through hoops hung upside down while  looking at the reflection. Or so it felt at the time.

And that's just my dark sense of humor, which keeps me from losing it. I don't hold grudges, I don't get even, I crack a joke about it and move on. You guys at Stardock produce incredible software! (Any plans to tackle chromebooks? hint hint - they can get awfully boring if you know what I mean)

Thank for all you do,

Dave

One question, when will you address the issues in Start11 as it pertains to Windows builds 226xx ???  I know its convenient to just ignore this future version, but why not have a "Beta build" that attempts to address this "up and coming" Windows build? 

Version 21H2 OS build is 22000.15274

After a couple reboots the time is behind the start button again. sad.

Olá sdRohan, estou sofrendo com um bug chato no start11, que ao abrir o menu do windows 10, fica recarregando os icones e o processo do windows explorer fica 100% na CPU do gerenciador de tarefa, isso trava todo o computador, estou na versão 1.39.

tem como regressar de versão 1.36? e como resolvo esse bug?

Grato pela resposta!

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Hello sdRohan, I'm suffering from a annoying bug in start11, that when opening the windows 10 menu, keeps reloading the icons and the windows explorer process gets 100% on the CPU of the task manager, this crashes the whole computer, I'm in version 1.39.

have how to return from version 1.36? and how do I solve this bug?

Grateful for the reply!

Taskbar is no longer transparent in the lower right tray area, since the update to Moment 2 upgrade 10.0.22621.1343.

Windows Release Preview went to 22H2 (OS Build 22621.1343) yesterday.

Start11 Version 1.39

The Taskbar task tray is now broken when Start11 V1.39 is set to "Let Start11 enhance the taskbar", in that the task tray is no longer visible.

This action seems to be caused by the "Automatically hide the Taskbar" option under 'Personalisation>>Taskbar>>Taskbar behaviours'. Disabling this option restores the task tray.

However, custom Taskbar textures from the Start11 Taskbar options no longer cover the 'Search & Widget' nor the Task tray.

I'm going to try a purge and re-install to see if that fixes anything.

Are there any new betas coming along?

Cheers.

Windows 11 22H2 OS Build 22621.1343.

Just updated to this version of windows this morning. Now whenever I use the "center" start 11 setting, the notification tray goes blank. The icons seem to be there if double tap to open a program, but they are invisible on the taskbar. If I use Left align setting everything displays as it should. Any ideas?

Thanks.

If you are using the insider preview build 22621 specifically rather than 22623/25300 then you can mitigate some of the issues by creating a registry key here "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8" called CompatBug1 of type String and giving it a value of 1

This will make Start11 treat that 22621 build as 22623 and higher which are the builds which during the earlier beta process had the new taskbar.  As it has been back ported to an earlier build number this has confused Start11 a little.

A newer build without the limitations the above will have (no textures, blur control, alpha control or experimental centre mode) should be available before release.

Unfortunately one of the risks of using prerelease software is compatibility issues.