Task Bar can Start 11 control be disabled?

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. But, from what I know there is no option in Start11 to disable control on Taskbar. Also from what I know on Windows 10, you can still move the taskbar to the left or right side. With or without Start11. And on Windows 11, there is no option to move it to the left or right side at all. Unless you install other 3rd party software that make that possible.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

I have Windows 11 with the latest insider release in full.  In this version, it must be added specifically to the registry if you want an alternate other than bottom placement of the task bar as the block has been removed disallowing.  It is on the left on three different monitors, but on my primary monitor Start 11 overrides the windows settings for task bar even if I do not want them to.

I own Start 8, 10, and 11.  How far back is required to recover control of my taskbar?  A better question would be why would an application with options to change so much not also allow option to not change what it changes?  It now feels like my task bar is held hostage to be able to use the start menu which is what I actually bought was a start menu with a task bar customization OPTION.

You appear to be asking for support on a prerelease version of Windows.

We do not provide official support on those as they are liable to break things at a moment's notice and features in them may never ship in a released product.

In this case it sounds like there has been a tweak to where taskbars can be positioned but Start11 which is designed for released versions where this is not allowed is blocking this though I cannot say why it would be as assuming you have turned off the enhanced taskbar features it wouldn't normally be interacting with that.

In short, thanks for letting us know, we will investigate to ensure it is resolved before this feature is released.

Start8 and 10 will not work on Windows 11.

One final really dumb question, does it actually work if you temporarily uninstall Start11?

Yes, I uninstalled Start11 and it immediately released the task bar to the left side of the screen.  I tried to reinstall and taskbar stayed on the left of the monitor until I rebooted.  Uninstalled and it immediately went back to the left before rebooting.  Currently have "Shell" installed just for a decent menu.  When I get time I will go back and play with it some more and see if I can disable taskbar control or write an override for windows disallowing anything to control the taskbar.  Second option most likely to be easiest as I worked on WinXP X64 and up until release of 8.

Just for information for your developers.  I am running a prerelease version of Windows 11.  You cannot automatically move the taskbar to the left.  It has to be done by changing the value from bottom to left in registry to enable the choice.  It is also very easy to revert Windows 11 back to the Windows 10 taskbar which will also allow on the left.  Probably a bit too complicated for the average user, but for the average user there is an app on github which also has the proper control panel for the taskbar to fully be controllable.

If you wish this part deleted, tell me and I will delete.  Start8 works perfectly on Windows 11.  You may have the newer install packages locked against install, but an old installer works fine and then just allow an upgrade.  Have not tried with Start10, but likely the same.