Tried the Taskbar left, right, top and bottom with the competitor, The strangest thing in the world to look at, when it is to the left or right, even having it at the top. I think i am just getting older and set in my ways to some degree.

If the Docs article is correct the Dev team at MS seem to all be doing there own thing without much cross department involvement, so the mind does Boggle mate. Seen some truly wonderful Taskbars in previous WB, but i have to say, the one i love the most (For How It Looks and Works) is the one i am using now in my Tron Legacy Theme, alongside the Competitors Start Menu Replacement, looks brilliant and can be put, left, right, up or down, although after years of seeing it one way, it is so strange.

I have relied a lot on you concerning Start 11 and it's development, yes i do own a copy, but as it is on my Win 10 SSD, i hardly ever use it . Would it even work with a Theme and not a WB, i do know they both are symbiotic, needing another program to get the full effect. Right now i know which i prefer, but as my man hours on Start11 are limited, my opinion is not Valid unlike yours, who has put in the time and effort bud.

Stardock, any update on this?

Quoting wkmacmillan,

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I feel so alone.  I have my taskbar on the right side

Don't, I'm with you! I've been using right aligned taskbars since I got my first 16:10 monitor in 2005 and still rocking it in 21:9 in 2022.

To me it's imperative before moving to Windows 11. Working professionally through various kinds of remote desktop, I make sure the taskbars are either right (personal PC, remote work workstation) or left (work laptop). That way I don't end up running my applications on the wrong machine.

I won't buy Start 11 or move to Windows 11 before I have that feature available, natively or otherwise.

No commitment from Stardock for over a year, so my Windows 11 laptop is using ExplorerPatcher instead of Start11.

Disappointment here too. I still use Stardock Fences 3 but use it alongside startallback for vertical taskbar. They seem fairly compatible.

"At the mercy of Microsoft" is a bit much when others can manage it. In any case, Stardock is simply ignoring this topic, and the needs of the people interested in this functionality, not indicating at all what they intend to do.

I feel like Stardock has abandoned my needs, so abandoning Stardock seems to be the only option for me. You may have different priorities, of course, and it could be that Stardock is still the best choice for you.

I couldn't get Stardock 11 to work with ExplorerPatcher (EP) on my new Win 11 laptop.  EP's Windows 10 menu and taskbar work well enough, so that is where I am keeping things for now.  I am not yet ready to take the offered upgrade on my Win 10 desktop.

Another vote for the vertical taskbar, I miss my lefty bar

Just want to add my vote to this.

I really, really miss the vertical left taskbar where I could have a huge number of programs/folders shown vertically with their names shown clearly whereas now I have to truncate them to fit in the bottom taskbar AND lose the names visibility in the process.. not to mention the wasted space since everything now shows vertically -with wasted spaces to the side- to fit the mobile devices needs.

Hello,
Sorry, but there is no new announcement on it yet.

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Sad been using Stardock Start for 12 years paid for every new platform change (7-8-10) including 11.

I, like many others here have to go left nothing else makes sense to me unless I still had a 4:3 aspect monitor. 

I tried explorer patch, sadly needed aside, it worked but I lost functionality of Start 11 for Taskbar.

Warning said, another app was in control. 

I will miss:

1) some of the functionality, for example finer control of task bar with multi monitors. 

2) finer control task bar translucency 

3) allowing Windows to control the color at the same time.  

4) adjustments to Start menu sizing and it's finer control

In spite of those missing elements the competitor just works out of the box with no hoops to jump through. The most important feature, moving to the left works great paid for 3 keys today, under 12 buck. 

Bottom line please please please Stardock maintain Fences still love it and works great with Windows 11.