Start 11 - FYI

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Windows 11 with Start 11 is an absolute No-Go for me

The use of any limitations on Start Menu hopefully will be felt by all. I can tell you that with release 22000.160, I had to type into the properties panel for any non-exe file "explorer.exe" before the file name in the target to get any non-exe tp pim to start. It also does not honor icons no matter how you customize them. I had to create shortcuts in "C:users\username\appdata\roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start\Programs\" for the icons to be honored. Even this did not always work. I cannot possibly imagine why shortcuts are not entirely transparent to this new start menu. And having it so small and not easily scrollable are clear show stoppers for me. Additionally, Stardock's start menu in windows 11 has severe limits on number of pins and size of its start menu as well.

For people who adertised that Win 11 would be familiar, welcoming and calming, they could not be more wrong. Windows 11 is not what I will use.

I hope that Stardock's product will allow resizing, have it be scrollable, and have no practical limits on the number of tiles.  I posted a similar item, more to Microsoft, in theregistrer.com.  This is FYI for the purpose of Start11 potential development.  I must confess I was very disappointed in the first beta.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

The number of items shown on the Start11 menu is adjustable in settings so you can make the menu taller.  In grid mode you can also make it wider.

As for pinned items, I wasn't sure if that was a complaint about the Windows menu or the Start11 one, but for Start11 if you click to open the start menu you should be able to drag to the top part of the menu any shortcut or folder.  Right clicking on exe files offers a pin to start (Start10) link too.

Future versions of Start11 will be offering new menu styles which will be more flexible in terms of sizing.  Right now we offer the classic Windows 7 style layout and a grid style option which is the same as we offered in Start10.

So don't give up yet :)

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thank you.  Next time in win 11, will check that out and yes, the complaints were all directed at Microsoft's Start menu function.  :D  :D  :blush:  

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