Latest Start11 update has changed the menu on right clicking both the Start Button, and a blank area of the Task Bar.

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Since latest Start11 update I have found the following changes I dislike.  When I used to right click the start button I used to get the tall Windows11 menu with for example able to choose task manager.  This is now a short menu with Configure Start11, Run, open File Explorer, Open Task Manager and Shutdown.  When I right clicked anywhere on an empty area of the task bar, I used to get the old menu, including Task Manager.  Now I just get Windows 11 Taskbar settings.  Can we go back to the previous menus, or can I choose them somewhere, either in Windows 11 settings, or Start11 settings.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

It sounds like you may have changed some settings in Start11 as the defaults would be as you want.

On the taskbar page in Start11 settings find the taskbar right click menu section and expand it.

There are two options.  The first one sounds like it is disabled on your computer.  Turn this on.

By default Windows 11 will only offer you taskbar settings when you right click on a blank area, again the next option in Start11 settings lets you return this to a more normal menu.  So enable this.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thank you Neil for your help.  I feel such an idiot, because the settings are there just like you said.  I recently had to do a clean install of windows 11, as some of my software did not work properly after upgrading windows 10 to windows 11.  Doing the reinstall of start11 I must have missed those settings.  I am very grateful.

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