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Start 11 Displaying Wrong Icons in Taskbar Bug

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September 17, 2025 10:51:56 AM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

Start 11 is mixing up the application icons and captions in the task bar.  In this example, it has given Visual Studio Outlooks icon and caption.

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Reply #1 September 17, 2025 7:48:56 PM
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Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Need more information.

  1. You on Windows 10 or 11? Also need its full version and OS Build number. Please use Winver.exe to get these numbers.
  2. Start11 version installed. 
  3. Start11 Taskbar enhance turn on or off?

Thank you,
Basj,
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Reply #2 September 18, 2025 9:44:51 AM
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1. Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.5074

2. Start 11 V 2.53

3. Taskbar enhance Off

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Reply #3 September 18, 2025 9:48:27 AM
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Thats very strange as we shouldn't be doing anything with the taskbar when enhanced taskbar is disabled.  That should be all the OS.

Are you sure this isn't happening without Start11 too?

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Reply #4 September 18, 2025 11:11:00 AM
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I can reproduce this and it does not happen if you immediately kill start 11 and return to windows taskbar it's immediately fixed.  (or if you restart explorer from start11 menu)

It's very intermittent, but happens more often when switching between multi-monitor setups (eg when moving from desk a to desk b to desk c with a laptop) without rebooting or forcing explorer restart.

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Reply #5 September 18, 2025 11:22:23 AM
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Quoting RVSwick,
reply 4

I can reproduce this and it does not happen if you immediately kill start 11 and return to windows taskbar it's immediately fixed.  (or if you restart explorer from start11 menu)

It's very intermittent, but happens more often when switching between multi-monitor setups (eg when moving from desk a to desk b to desk c with a laptop) without rebooting or forcing explorer restart.

Stopping S11 will restart explorer though so would instantly fix it.

I am thinking this might be a bug in Windows rather than us and would expect it to show up the same without Start11 but as you say it is intermittent which makes it harder to test this.

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