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Start11 - Start button responds unpredictably to stylus taps

October 25, 2025 3:27:55 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

I am using Start11 2.55 on Windows 11 Pro 25H2 on a desktop PC.

When I click the Start button with my mouse, Start11 displays its custom start menu perfectly 100% of the time. However, when I am using my graphics tablet (an XP-Pen Deco Pro LW Gen2) and I tap the Start button with the stylus, the behavior is unpredictable:

  • most of the time the standard Windows 11 start menu is displayed;
  • sometimes both the standard and Start11 menus are displayed simultaneously;
  • rarely, I get only the Start11 menu.

Note that this is not a tablet PC, and my graphics tablet is not the type with a screen. I'm not using Windows in tablet mode, just using my stylus as a mouse. The stylus works fine in every other Windows feature - I've only had trouble with Start11. Once I'm in the start menu the stylus works fine; it's only bringing up the menu that's flaky.

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Reply #1 October 25, 2025 3:56:09 PM
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It's possible, if this is a touch screen, you may need to change this setting.

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Reply #2 October 25, 2025 5:59:51 PM
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It's not a touch screen, just a regular desktop monitor. I set that setting to "Force not touch mode device" and restarted Explorer, but it made no difference to the behavior of the Start button.

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Reply #3 October 25, 2025 7:43:37 PM
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I understand now. You are using something like a Wacom drawing pad with a stylus. It could possibly be the pressure setting for the stylus.

Does it make a difference where you are on the pad when you click the Start Button, or is the pad a pixel for pixel image of the monitor?

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Reply #4 October 25, 2025 9:28:08 PM
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Right, very much like a Wacom tablet. The drawing area is mapped to the screen area, so to click the Start button in the lower left corner of the screen, I have to tap the lower left corner of the tablet. Is that what you meant?

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Reply #5 October 26, 2025 5:55:05 AM
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Right, very much like a Wacom tablet. The drawing area is mapped to the screen area, so to click the Start button in the lower left corner of the screen, I have to tap the lower left corner of the tablet. Is that what you meant?

As an test, move the Start button to the middle, and see if it makes a difference.

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Reply #6 October 26, 2025 9:52:43 AM
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No change in behavior when the Start button is centered.

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Reply #7 October 26, 2025 12:27:50 PM
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There is no way for me to try and reproduce this since I don't have a drawing tablet.
Do you have any pinned apps on your taskbar? Do you have this same issue with pinned apps?
Are you using the enhanced taskbar?
Are you using a custom start button?

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Reply #8 October 26, 2025 4:02:06 PM
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OK, I think I figured it out. My friend has Start11 and a different brand of tablet, and he wasn't having any trouble with his Start button. That made me think that the XP-Pen driver software, Pentablet, might be the problem. When I closed Pentablet, the problem with the Start button went away. So I took a look at the Pentablet settings, and I noticed that "Windows Ink" was on (by default). I turned that off, and now the Start button works perfectly. Of course, I also lose all Windows Ink features, but I wasn't using them anyway!

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Reply #9 October 26, 2025 4:11:10 PM
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Glad you figured it out.   

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