I feel cheap but I somehow fixed this by means of TaskBarX

The start button that you guys are inserting is creating lag and latency all over.

I've remember that TaskbarX allowed to insert the start button by means of a shortcut onto the taskbar as a "Windows Button" app call.

The direct link for the icon shortcut is: "C:\Program Files\taskbarx\TaskbarX.exe" -showstartmenu

With this neat trick, I am only using taskbarX to open up YOUR START11 start menu and the latency is gone, because I disabled the option to show the Start button from Start11

Surely If I can make the start button work with this trick and without latency, you can fix the start button latency.

This appears to be specific to closing TaskManager, possibly because of the system tray icon is destroys too.

We have resolved this for the next update, thanks for reporting this.

Any news regarding the update?.

I've tried it.  But it doesn't seem to fix the issue with the Start Button and the Task Manager.  It is still closing awfully slow when the Start button is present.

I've described the issue on this same thread and you said that you've fixed this in the next release.

This was resolved based on testing here.

Please uninstall Start11, REBOOT and then install the update.

Thank you so much for fixing this so quick.  The issue appears to be solved now.

Well, the latency is coming from Start11 apparently connected to the auto-hide taskbar animation, even if the animation is not running and the taskbar is fully hidden.  If I remove the autohide Taskbar, everything works but this is truly a no-go for an OLED screen as Desktop.

You should fix this.  People with OLED screens will immediately catch this lag on the Task Manager.  I use the Task Manager all the time.  I've spent quite an amount of money to have a fast computer only for Start11 to make it look like my PC is laggy and slow.

Hello yes.  I've replied to you in the other thread.

The issue appears to be originating from within Windows and the miserable "Auto Hide Taskbar" animation. Even when I enable auto-hide and "disable" windows animations,  it seems that the animation time is still running.  I can detect this because I see a tiny bit of lag in the Taskbar showing up for when I have autohide taskbar without windows animations (this is even without Start11 running).

When Start11 is running, it appears that the Task Manager is "waiting"  on the "autohide"  animation even if the animation is not currently running.  Feels to me that it is actually "executing"  the "hide animation" when the taskbar is already hidden.

So I went the other way.  I've completely disabled autohide taskbar functionality on Windows and used this instead to hide the taskbar

https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/AutoHideDesktopIcons

This also fixed other awful issue of the insidious autohide taskbar in Windows... the white line on the bottom.  With this program the line is also gone, a true hidden taskbar.  After this program is active, it is like the taskbar is always opened for Start11 and since there is no animation,  the Task Manager is fast again !

Why would you say this when Neil originally responded with the fix (in Reply #12) within four days of your original post. And your reply was "Thank you so much for fixing this so quick. The issue appears to be solved now."

As I have said before; Stardock has one of the best tech support teams in the industry.

I am running Windows 10 22H2 19045.1865 on my everyday work machine. I tested your issue on my device and there is definitely a lag when closing the Task Manager, and I mean no disrespect, but it is less than 1/2 a second and your gripe seems pretty petty. If you open and close the Task Manager 20 times every day, that costs you 10 seconds, if that, for the day. Yes it would be nice if it closed instantly, but this lag shouldn't be a deal breaker for using Start11 with the Auto Hide taskbar turned on.

Hi all,

(windows 11 user)
8/11/2022 updated windows 11.
Don't think it has to do with any updates but something more direct and specific.

I just made an account because I think I figured out why there is a lag with the right clicking and lagging in general/freezes for my case using Start11 start-menu styles windows 10 style....

Issue:
- Insane right clicking lag in start-menu tiles/app list
- Disabling animations or anything you think directly of is not the solution. Windows 11 is built on the animate framework feature thing.
- Its the start-menu. It is conflicting with the windows 11 animations when right clicking anything start-menu.
- Start11 settings do not fix anything, you need to change settings with a windows option.

Fix: (It is somehow a temp fix and still slightly laggy if you are trying to be a speed demon. devs may need to look into this conflict)
Here is the fix for me: (you still need to keep some of the animations just for right clicking menus to fix):

- Search icon and search for>Adjust the appearance and performance of windows (it will open up <Performance Options>)


-Visual Effects tab
-click select Custom:
-disable everything except the following in the screenshot:
-Apply
-OK

- Make sure you do this! disabling this will not change anything beside bring back the lag:

-settings>accessibility>visual effects

-turn on animation effects
-keep transparency on, it does do anything beside conflict with start11 transparency if turned off.

Hope this helps.

quinn