Just upgraded my Start8 license to Start11 and have some issues With Start11, Windows 10 Style:

1. White dot in bottom-right corner of Taskbar's context menu and Shutdown menu.



2. Can't remove the Start Menu's left/bottom paddings. I expect the menu to be part of the taskbar as in Windows 10.

3. Centering the icons in the Taskbar, replaces the custom Start Orb with the Windows 11 default one (I like mine on the left, but is worth mentioning it for other people).

4.  Start Menu's context menu freezes for 2-5 seconds when hovering or selection options.

5. The gray hovered background of the Start Menu's tiles doesn't match the one from the left sidebar apps list.



6. No option to replace the apps/tiles hovered background color or to select "Use Windows Accent Color" at least.

7. Start Menu's context menu is black and not transparent like the Start Menu's background, or the desktop's context menu.

8. Start Menu tiles with "Use Windows 11 menu style icons" enabled,  have their names with elipsis instead of just wrapping to the next line.

Then, with "Use Windows 11 menu style icons" disabled, the names are fully displayed, but new issues come up:

  a. Some of the tiles icons are not centered.
  b. The names are not centered.
  c. When hovering the tiles, instead of having the same filled rectangle than in the apps sidebar or the Start Menu Context Menu, it has only an outline. No consistency.




FEATURE REQUEST:

1. Ungrouping Taskbar's wifi/battery/sound icons.

Is your taskbar set to auto hide?

I ask as the desktop icons seem to be under the taskbar, thats why everything is incorrectly offset.

These bugs are a causality of new code Microsoft implemented in their last update that broke the way the taskbar behaved when placed on the top of the screen. I am pretty sure the new code was put in to make way for Microsoft big update this year.

The good news is that no new new bugs have been found in Microsoft's big update which is currently available in the DEV preview.

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. But, appear working on my latest Windows 11 V21H2 (OS Build 22000.493) and Start11 1.11 as shown on the screenshot below. Can you post what you seeing on your system.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

This is my screeenshot. Notice the widget icon is still just a block not the actual wather info. It worked until I upgraded Start 11 to 1.11.

Ron,

I can not say I can fully answer why the weather app is not working but thought I would share my experience with build 257.

I found the build to be both an amazing build with a lot of good improvements and also very delicate and easy to break. In fact, with my experience I actually had several programs which previously worked that stop working altogether. I also had several ui elements in explorer and other areas quit working randomly and had to be restarted. I do know this build was delayed 2 weeks because the developers have struggled to get this release stable on the timeline it was supposed to be released. In my opinion, this build just is not yet done cooking so to speak.

I reluctantly rolled back this build but am eagerly awaiting updates to make this build more stable. As far as the weather app is concerned it is hard to pinpoint who is to blaime, but based on the comments I am seeing I want to lean towards Microsoft on this one.

Sorry, I misunderstood you. I though you was talking about the Widget itself. Not the Widget icon. Yes the icon, is not showing the current conditions.

I wonder if you guys have try this : https://forums.stardock.com/510483? And see if it get it working again.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Lots of people with this issue so it is probably not caused by Start 11. It has been reported to MS but no solutions are forthcoming. There are other pieces of software similar to start 11 out there and people are reporting the weather issue to those developers as well. It is interesting to me that creating a new user account on the same computer will work. It is just a pain to move everything to a new account to fix a minor thing like the weather icon. I have been hunting through the users registry settings to see if there is anything glaringly different between a new account and my old one, so far no joy. 

All indications seem to show that never combined taskbar buttons are indeed included. It also seems that it is on the home stretch of its beta release.

https://forums.stardock.com/510553/start-11-menu#3839773

Just wanted to make sure this gets seen

Windows version: Windows 10 Home - 21H2 (19044.1566)

Start11 version 1.11 - Windows 10 style used

Quick summary:

Start11 is syncing with Windows 10 start menu and ungrouping various shortcuts I've already pinned to Start11.  A new column shows up filled with various applications from Windows 10 start menu.  After some time, the newly created synced icons will disappear, along with the new group it created, leaving a blank icon called "My PC" that doesn't do anything when clicked on.  Uninstall - deactivation - cleanup batch script from forums - reinstall - reactivation same issue.  Solution/workaround: Adding NoSyncPins (value: 1) to registry under Start8\Start8.ini\Start8 seems to have stopped this behavior from continuing.  A rollback of the sync feature may be needed if others experience this, or an option to disable sync in Start11's configuration could be warranted, given that user's shortcuts can disappear and their experience with the product and reputation could be in jeopardy.

Detailed sequence of events / troubleshooting:

So been using 1.11 since it came out without issue at all.  Yesterday I went back to Windows 10 start menu to quickly launch a shortcut I didn't have time to put on Start11.  While waiting for the app to launch, I deleted a tile from the Windows 10 start menu.  After some time, pulled up Start11 only to find that a TON of shortcuts were missing from it, in various places - various groupings & various folder groups.

So, I began to search for icons and pin them to Start11 again.  I had to jump over to the Windows 10 start menu a few times to see what I was missing and I expanded a folder group there to look inside.  When I pulled up Start11, suddenly a new column started populating with ALL the MISSING shortcuts from before (even removing the ones I'd just began adding from their groupings/folder groups!)

Frustrated, I began to move these icons in the new column where they were supposed to go.  I had to switch back and look at the Windows 10 menu for this a few times.  Suddenly Start11 removed all the icons from the column it had added along WITH the icons I'd started to drag and drop into various groups/folder groups.

Frustrated, I deactivated and uninstalled Start11, and reinstalled/reactivated.  The import brought only a few folders and groups over, so I began filling out the missing icons (again using the Windows 10 start menu as reference).  When suddenly, the exact same behavior happened: a new column with a ton of icons suddenly populated.    So, I did a complete wipe (using a batch file I found here) to get rid of everything Start11 and reinstalled.  Again the same behavior started to show!  The only thing I can see in that column/new group that's created is a blank icon called "My PC" which does nothing when you click on it.  You can only delete it.

Solution/workaround:

I went onto the forum and found this:

Due to user confusion we now sync pins from the OS with the Win10 and 11 style menus.  We do not sync a pin using Pin to Start11 to the OS however, only pins and unpins from the OS menu.  That said unpinning from Win10/11 menu will unpin from the OS as otherwise you wouldn't be able to repin using the OS options.

On Windows 11 the search offers pin to Start with no ability for it to be extended by us to offer pin to Start 11 hence this solution.

If you do not want this behaviour you can disable it with a registry key and then signing out and in again.

You would create a REG_SZ value with the value of "1" called NoSyncPins at this location HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8

 From <https://forums.stardock.com/509528/the-windows-10-native-pin-to-start-pins-apps-in-start11-is-it-a-bug-or-a-fe>

So I added the key and it APPEARS (only been half a day thus far) to have solved the issue.  Whatever process Start11 is doing to monitor and link the start menu from Windows 10 is causing some very bizarre and frustrating behavior.  It may be better to walk this change back until thoroughly tested in betas OR give an option for users to "unlink" which sets the registry NoSyncPins as shown above.  I, for one, don't want Windows 10 start menu to be watched by Start11.  I'm perfectly fine - and I think most users of this app - are okay with "Pin to Start11" showing up in context menus without confusion.

Request:  The ability to add shortcuts from shell:appsfolder to the shortcut list.  Currently, have to manually create a shortcut for an app, and then add link the newly created shortcut.  However, these shortcuts lose their icons whenever the app with the manually created shortcut is updated.

Have to manually create shortcuts for "Calculator" and "Microsoft Store" to add here:

Icons get lost after Calculator or Microsoft Store get updates here: