In my opinion, start 11v2 is a smart move by stardock. Windows 11 has been catching up, the start menu is better and the taskbar is getting better. When hudson valley is released the task bar and start menu will only get better, so it is good that Stardock is staying ahead of the game. This is all a welcome change in strategy from what we saw with start 10; Microsoft may have had start 10 beat in terms of innovation. With start 11 Stardock has been on their game with lots of innovation that we have never seen before. Unfortunately with innovation there comes a higher price which is why version 2 came out as a paid upgrade. It was a lot of work to develop.

As for Start 12, it depends on what exactly we are going to get from Hudson valley. Hudson Valley which will be released next year and may be Windows 12 or it may still be windows 11. It may have a new taskbar or the new taskbar may be scrapped. This unknown has to be really hard for a company like stardock to maneuver because it is not even known if start 12 needs to be developed at all yet. But if it does, it will likely be another paid upgrade... And if it is I do expect Stardock to try and stay ahead of Microsoft on it with even more innovations.

Hello,
If you on Windows 10, than vertical taskbar should not be an issue, you can hide text with Windows taskbar setting at Combine taskbar buttons to "Always, hide label". Effect of change should be immediately.

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Yes, more than one app button horizontally is not possible.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Google translation:

Hello, I have been buying Object Desktop for years and in fact I only use Start11 and Fence.
I must conclude that, despite it being indicated that this V2 version is included with the package I still have to pay extra for this specific version?

It depends on when you purchased your Object Desktop. If before October 2023, I believe you are not entitled to Start11v2. I could be wrong, though.

Je viens de télécharger et installer la version du lien que vous m'avez proposé et il continue à me proposer de payer.

Quoting The-Reaper-Man,

reply 161

Quoting paypal96,

reply 160

Je viens de télécharger et installer la version du lien que vous m'avez proposé et il continue à me proposer de payer.

I got that same, exact message when I upgraded my Start11 to version 1.5 today. Although I am using Windows 10 and really have no need for the product, I thought it would still be a free upgrade with my subscription. I just extended my subscription the other day (Jan 27th, 2024), so I thought the message was somewhat strange.

It seems ODM is not handling this right.  V2 would be free if you have an active object desktop subscription.

If you install v2 from the store downloads you should be OK, or uninstall 1.5 and it will then let you install v2.

I just upgraded to Start11V2 so that I could use tabs in my start menu.  My PC runs Windows 11, I have been using the Stardock Windows 10 Start Menu option, and have 10 groups of items.  I tried to change my start menu to the new Windows Pro to use tabs, and only four of my groups show up. Why can I not see the other 6 groups? Do I have to go in and create all new groups on blank tabs?????? Where did my groups go?

thanks for the reply.  On Win 10, if I right-click on a blank area and select "New,"  Tab is greyed out. Cannot get tabs with Win 10.

Bonjour, j'ai bien récupéré et installé la dernière version mais pour moi qui n'ai actuellement pas de temps à y consacrer c'est une véritable catastrophe. Toute ma configuration précédente a disparu, je n'arrive plus à retrouver ma disposition précédente, je ne vois absolument rien comme amélioration par rapport à la version précédente et encore pire à chaque démarrage de mon PC ça revient à relancer la configuration de Start11v2 que je dois fermer systématiquement et Quels que soient les changements que j'essaie de faire (en aveugle puisqu'aucune doc visible) de toute façon le démarrage suivant il repart sur la configuration précédente. Comment revenir à la version avant la v2 pour l'instant le temps que tout ça se stabilise. J'ai bien cherché sur votre site mais il est clairement orienté pour amener tout le monde sur cette version et je ne trouve pas, malgré mes recherches, une page qui permettrait de récupérer les anciennes versions. Cela existe sur votre site ?
Merci

Hello, I have recovered and installed the latest version but for me who currently do not have time to devote to it it is a real disaster. All my previous configuration has disappeared, I can no longer find my previous layout, I see absolutely nothing as an improvement compared to the previous version and even worse each time I start my PC it amounts to restarting the Start11v2 configuration that I have to close systematically and whatever changes I try to make (blindly since no visible doc) in any case the next startup it goes back to the previous configuration. How to go back to the version before v2 for now while everything stabilizes. I have searched carefully on your site but it is clearly oriented to bring everyone to this version and I cannot find, despite my searches, a page which would allow you to recover the old versions. Does this exist on your site?
THANKS

I bought the first app because Stardock promised to add live tile support later.

It didn't.  And there isn't in this second version.

For me it is a scam and I am not angry about the price but about the lie.

I will never use either of them again. I regret even contributing a small amount to the language support.

I will use ExporerPatcher in the future. At least it can display live tiles.

A few people have asked for Live Tile support over time, but Stardock never said they would implement them in Start11v1 or v2.

Microsoft dropped support for live tiles in 2021, and very few developers still support them.

I do not believe anyone from Stardock suggested such a thing.

We did probably say we could add in support for tile images which we did in v1 and can be enabled in advanced settings but not live tiles as that's a lot of extra work for very little benefit given they are obsolete now.