I fixed the issue myself and would like to share that I was right, the animation that Windows executes on the autohide the taskbar is permanently affecting Start11 ability to quickly close the Task Manager.

Knowing this I went the other way.  I disabled the autohide animation on Windows and use this instead to hide the taskbar

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

You should thank that guy,  this completely solved the lag in the Task Manager closing because this program does not do any animation whatsoever and since windows thinks the taskbar is showing all the time, it does not affect Start11 either.

A quick alternative would be for you guys to implement a native auto-hide taskbar without the native Windows way of doing it, that way you will skip the animation bug.

Issue:

Clicking on the Start icon sometimes does not open the Start11 or opens it and closes it immediately. This issue doesn't occur always, but is consistent and eventually after several times ends up occurring.

Video for reference...

Details:

• My OS is Windows 11 21H2 Build 22000.795
• I use the latest Start11 version 1.25
• Happens with both Start11 taskbar enhancements enabled or disabled
• I couldn't reproduce the issue with pressing the Windows key on the keyboard, only when opening it from the taskbar

After a short time, the Start11 menu (v1.25) is displayed offset to the top of the screen. 
Uninstalling and reinstalling did nothing. 
As soon as I restart Explorer via the Start11 configuration, the menu is back in the correct position. 
Windows 11 version is 22622.436 (22H2), the display is scaled to 150% (res. 2560×1440). 
The problem already existed in v1.24.

I have a similar problem occasionally as I described in my ignored? post (on page 2). I don't have Object Dock, so I think it may be unrelated to Object Dock. Please try the solution and tell us how it went.

Despite me finding that workaround, I still have to restart explorer from Start11 program after every reboot. Occasionally programs with no title bar such as Emacs seem to cause the problem to appear again.

New problem found:   Windows notifications appear in the bottom right corner anyway. Additionally they are click through so that:   when I click X to close them and have the Start11's start menu open, then Start11 registers the click onto underlying Shutdown button and I already had a few of unwanted shutdowns!  Very annoying to lose work!

Additional problem found: Win+d shortcut doesn't work anymore. Not sure whether this is caused by Start11 and/or Fences4.

Like all previous versions, I get constant explorer.exe crashes when doing things like cliking icons

No one from tech support has at least acknowledged my posts yet here).

New problem I have found: (I previously was not sure whether it is related to Start11.) Always  after the procedure of: switching to integrated graphics only (the computer's OEM software allows this) with hibernating and resuming and  sleeping and resuming again, then the Start11 blacks out the entire screen and flashes occasionally. I can't use anything when that happens, all is obscured. Eventually, the dialog box of  „program is not responding” appears (I have enabled some tweaks to make such dialog boxes happen sooner than the usual too long on windows),  and I can close Start11 with it.

So, so far there are at least 3 sets  of problems. I really like the software except when it bugs me.

Can anyone from Tech Support at at least let me know, that they see my posts? I paid for this software, please don't treat me like an unworthy user.

regards

same problem here: https://forums.stardock.com/513541/page/1/#3858578

Hi APONFSAOSF,

I would recommend a clean boot to see if there is another program conflicting with Start11. I cannot reproduce this on my end.

https://forums.stardock.com/505872/start11-support-faq#cleanboot

Paul Scroggins
Associate Technical Support Analyst

Taskbar opens offset to the right, when you hover over it, it will move over to the left.  It doesn't happen consistently.

Is there any idea how to solve this issue reported days back? It's annoying for me to restart Explorer each time I open a new Brave Browser profile.

Quoting aamadorj,

reply 23

Issue:

I use different Brave Browser profiles and the icon is supposed to show the avatar of each profiles, but sometimes Start11 will do this:



Details:

• Windows 11 version 21H2 build 22000.795

• Start11 1.25

• The issue appears at the taskbar when opening a different Brave Browser profile, as shown previously. 

• The issue disappears when I change the Taskbar size at Start11 configuration and restart Explorer, but returns when I close Brave Browser profile and open it again.

I tried to reverse the Winaero Tweaker setting to disable the cassic taskbar setting and as result both issues from my post "Reply #97" have disappeared. When I use Start 11 setting for Taskbar size, I achieve roughly the same thing as with the mentioned Tweaker setting, so other Start 11 users my want to stay away from it

Quoting aamadorj,

reply 96

Is there any idea how to solve this issue reported days back? It's annoying for me to restart Explorer each time I open a new Brave Browser profile.

Quoting aamadorj,

reply 23

Issue:

I use different Brave Browser profiles and the icon is supposed to show the avatar of each profiles, but sometimes Start11 will do this:



Details:

• Windows 11 version 21H2 build 22000.795

• Start11 1.25

• The issue appears at the taskbar when opening a different Brave Browser profile, as shown previously. 

• The issue disappears when I change the Taskbar size at Start11 configuration and restart Explorer, but returns when I close Brave Browser profile and open it again.

Does this reproduce without Start11 installed?

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager