Additional drag to open improvement consideration. Although drag to open works in most scenarios now, at least one scenario is not working as it was natively in all previous versions of Windows. Specifically when you try to save the picture open in a browser by dragging it to Explorer (or other program, doesn't matter) on taskbar. Right now it shows "stop" icon and does not work. Please fix it

@Sean
I updated to the beta yesterday, same issue occurred last night.
I'll pull log dumps tonight and get them sent.

I'm not including the screenshots as the above screenshots pretty much sum it up. But what I will include are additional descriptions of what I've experianced and tracked down as 'program conflicts' that have started with a new update due to 'new features' in Ashampoo WinOptimizer25 (the new version from WinOptimizer19). It now includes features that in basic do the same as Start11 with regards to managing the taskbar.

Additional issues I've experianced while the WinOptimizer25 is installed or the newest update is installed is as above or even as far as a startup that goes to just a black screen with nothing loading. I am forced to use a CTRL-Alt-DEL to get to a task manager to try to determine what happened to find most things froze at startup and in the end terminate at a reset only to end in the same result. 

Best start ups I get Start11 starting before WinOptimizer25 and everything seeming to work fine... (Basically playing a craps game here with the starting of my PC with which one will start first.) Sometimes, Start11 will start first however, WinOptimizer25 will attempt to take over management of the taskbar and Start11 will conceed and show in the program that another program is managing the taskbar. 

I am writing to Ashampoo to suggest a 'disable' option for this feature as it does cause issues with programs / apps such as Start11. Ashampoo has been good at implimenting such suggestions in the past. Perhaps if Stardock makes the request for the option to Disable the feature if a third party task manager is in use as well, it may help.

Further note, if I totally uninstall Ashampoo WinOptimizer25(19) there has been no issues that I can report.

Bug 1

I see the problem. "You already have something else managing your taskbar buttons so this cannot be enabled until that is disabled." (As reported in 512434.) Of course, there's no user resolution for this because the things managing my taskbar buttons are you and microsoft. Because of bug 2 I can't uninstall/reinstall to fix your problem. You can rest assured that when I get this sorted i will turn off "automatically download new updates" because the bugs I know and can work around are better than the bugs I don't know and can't resolve!

Bug 2

Also, better bug report on another issue, I can't download software from your site because I signed up for forums using entirely different credentials from those used to purchase the product. I purchased through PayPal but:

• I didn't create an account with you at the time (IIRC)
• I definitely don't want to use my PayPal address to identify me with your outfit!

UX bug report (bug 3)

(I'm into configuration now. Great, right?) You're using the left arrow incorrectly. A big left arrow at the top left of the window means "go back to the higher level menu" and not "take me where i just was". The way it works... Sure, I can see why a programmer did that but no way a UX designer would sign off on this non standard behavior!

Ha ha. I can't add new posts but I can keep editing this one forever. Ha ha. Well, I'm just running vanilla Win11 pro. And in two days I've uninstalled and reinstalled at least twice. It's not super great fun. I hope this time it works longer than just a few hours!

Quoting monoito5098,

reply 60

The latest Windows 11 insider build stopped showing the clock with no way to turn it back on.
Windows 11 Build 22621.1 ni_release

As I am sure you are aware we do not offer formal support for insider builds of Windows.  Very few people should be using them 

That said you need start11 1.23 beta or later.

Just wanted to report, whatever conflict I was having with the Ashampoo WinOptimizer25 and the Start11 1.22 was resolved once I installed the Beta of Start11 1.24.  It appears to be starting up and working stable once more with no issues that I can tell. If more appear or return I'll post again (or at least in the beta thread now that I'm using the beta.)

Quoting serega_m,

reply 52

And one more weird bug with drag to open. If you move video file from one explorer window to another by dragging it to another instance of explorer on taskbar - the moment your mouse reaches it - explorer is restarting. The same thing with graphical files work fine, as well as text document (and maybe some other type of files, I didn't test them all ). Also, please fix, as it is super weird :>

The same behaviour (restart when file reaches other instance of explorer on taskbar) is for .pptx (POwerPoint) files as well }:>

With the release of Start1 1.24, we are closing this thread.

https://forums.stardock.com/512553/start11-124-release-issue-report-thread

Thanks to all that participated.