Taskbar not showing customized taskbar

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Not sure on your issue. Can you elaborate more on your issue.

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Yes, here is the complete story.  I am running windows version 22623.870.  I don't want to install windows maintenance because two things happened:

1) After installing 22623.875 size of taskbar shrunk to small from medium.  

2) Restored 22623.870.  Taskbar is medium size and icons appear the way I want.

3) Re-ran update to 22623.875, then downloaded stardock's update.  Taskbar is again not medium sized.  I modify somebuttons in Start 11 to see if I can restore the behavior I want.  None of them work and in fact, one change disabled Start 11's start menu entirely.

4)  So, I have again restored to version 22623.870 without the stardock update.  So, I cannot apply any Microsoft maintenance either with or without Stardock patches.  I have deferred Microsoft maintenance for a week.  Let me know how I can have:

medium size taskbar

stardock start menu

and larger taskbar.  I'll try anything but doubt it will be successful as it seems I have tried all options

          Thanks Basj

                                        Norm

Hello again,

Do know that Stardock does not support Windows insider preview or Beta. Just to check, does Start11 run at all on the system? If its not but it used to run properly before your Windows version change. Can you try uninstall Start11, reboot immediately, reinstall latest version, reboot again and retest. Report back.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

It is a pretty shortsided view but i can uninstall Stardock so I can proceed with routine maintenance.  Let me simply say that they and you have a different opinion.

Even Microsoft recommends the beta over development.  Tell them their policy forces me to the dev ring where they reportedly have the taskbar working properly.  Then maybe I'll scrap Stardock

Taskbar issues are same in the Development ring on Microsoft so I came back. Let me try a different question which is not related to a bug.  It might be functionality that people would like.  Let's say that I don't want to add text next to a taskbar icon. is there a way to create an exempt list that behave like it is not enhancing the taskbar for icons/apps that I specify?

Hello,
I have forward your problem/question to Stardock Support Team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

There is not.  Right now the options are show text or do not show text.  There is no exclusion list to set say notepad to hide text but explorer to show text.

We can add this to the request list for future consideration however.

With regards to insider builds, unless you have a real reason to use them I would strongly urge you not to use them.  You will experience issues with builds and no sane software dev will offer any technical support for issues which only happen on them.  In fact the advice will be to roll back to release Windows and then let them know if the issue continues to exist.  It is simply too costly to provide support for people using experimental at best versions of Windows.

After some investigation it looks like the taskbar height thing is only when you do not have Start11 enhancing the taskbar.  This is likely to be the case going forwards.  Enabling the option for Start11 to enhance the taskbar allows the height to be controlled (unless you are using an auto hide taskbar - those require standard height taskbars)