Build 22616 change to action center & flyouts, Taskbar fro Stardock is making Microsoft taskbar invisible

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After installing Microsoft Build 22616 to change certain behaviors, I see the microsoft display for action center but Stardock taskbar makes it invisible now.  It is painted over.  This seems to be a lack of coordination by both Microsoft and Stardock.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

For the missing system tray on the latest insider build, this can be fixed by adding the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8

Create a new key of type REG_SZ with the Name "OldTaskbarOn11" and give it a value of 1.

Then sign out and in again.

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As noted before we do not officially support insider builds of Windows for these reasons.

I would recommend people stick to released versions of Windows.  If Microsoft don't support it then don't touch it on anything you use on a daily basis unless you are a software dev.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thank you.  To avoid a registry hack, I turned off allowing Stardock to enhance the taskbar experience.  

     Norm

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Quoting nacunis, reply 2

Thank you.  To avoid a registry hack, I turned off allowing Stardock to enhance the taskbar experience.  

     Norm

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Umm, thats a Stardock registry key.  Turning off the enhanced taskbar options in Start11 also changes a Stardock registry key.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

It is funny, the fix is basically just a registry key that turns off every single fix that has been done with the Windows 11 insider preview channel. Basically this means; If Stardock never did anything to make Start 11 work on the insiders channel, it would now be working perfectly. That is a lot of wasted man hours.

The silver lining is that now texture and transparency will not be a problem on 22H2.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting PhoenixRising1, reply 4

It is funny, the fix is basically just a registry key that turns off every single fix that has been done with the Windows 11 insider preview channel. Basically this means; If Stardock never did anything to make Start 11 work on the insiders channel, it would now be working perfectly. That is a lot of wasted man hours.

The silver lining is that now texture and transparency will not be a problem on 22H2.
End of PhoenixRising1's quote

It is particularly frustrating as the next update had a whole pile of fixes for the newer taskbar ready to go.  Still I suspect the new taskbar will return in dev channel at some point and when it does we will just have to flick a switch to support it.

On the other hand we are feeling good about having the switch in there in case Microsoft did something like this :)

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Neil, reply 5

It is particularly frustrating as the next update had a whole pile of fixes for the newer taskbar ready to go. Still I suspect the new taskbar will return in dev channel at some point and when it does we will just have to flick a switch to support it.

On the other hand we are feeling good about having the switch in there in case Microsoft did something like this
End of Neil's quote

That does sound frustrating. But, I do agree that the new taskbar very well could resurface on the DEV channel once they branch off again. I haven't heard anything as to why they pulled it from 22H2, it could come down to just not being finished in time similar to their tabbed explorer that was removed earlier.

I think what we are seeing now is a consolidation process as they figure out how to separate the Beta and Dev channel back into two different builds. I would wager that we see a new dev build very soon.