Start11 on Surface Go 2 in portrait mode, no keyboard - you can't be serious...

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I'm *really* surprised you're considering this as a release candidate. On my Surface Go 2 portrait-mode touch tablet, it's a complete mess.

1) long-press does not translate to right-click as it should, so i cannot see the old win10 menu on the taskbar - only the win11 single-item 'list'

2) Using the Win11 theme, i could only get two icons on the start menu. If i chose to pin a third it overwrote one of those already there. When i switched to a different theme, everything i pinned was there.

3) every once in a while, even if i am not doing anything with S11, when the cursor is hovered over the start menu, esp the win11 theme; the cursor turns to the fuzzy-blue rotating 'wait' circle. 

4) After (3) happens 2 or 3 times it never recovers and i have to reboot

5) STILL can't drag the taskbar to allow two rows of icons

6) I use HotKeyboard because Win11's built-in on-screen kbd is terrible. In the settings for HotKeyboard there is a checkbox to add it to the taskbar. It doesn't work, and on next viewing the checkbox is no longer selected  

7) why can't we set it up where we seee JUST the pined items, no always-present 'all programs' or lit of links to settings, etc? UGLY! Should be able to hide these.

8) Cannot resize the start menu in some instances in portrait mode - it stretches off the screen, forcing me to go to landscape to fix it. Setting the max boundary for the stretchable box to the window size can't be that hard. And automatically switching when the screen rotates.

9) And why all the hate for the full-screen start? On a touch tablet is amazingly convenient.

10) sometimes when i click the start button i get Start11, sometimes i get plain Win11.

Except for #7 & #9, NONE of these problems exist in StartAllBack, which i plan to stay with it until y'all  make this something other than the equivalent of a v0.1 pre-release.

 

C'mon StarDock - I've never been disappointed with  y'all like this before.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
I have forward your problem/question to Stardock Support Team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I think it's going out really fast because Windows 11 was pushed out really fast and they are trying to bring the core functionality to the masses so those of us who have to get started in the Windows 11 world (whether or not we want to yet) can at least get some of Start 11's features now.

A lot of the issues you listed up above are due to MS disabling, removing, or hiding core functionality. Stardock is in a tight spot as they need to weigh if MS is going to cave in and fix some of the mess they created or not to determine if they should devote developer time into creating new code to replace what was lost. They don't want to put 6 months in dev and then MS dump it right back in after the backlash. Hang in there, I am sure they will massage in fixes for most of the actual bugs listed above soon.

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