Hi, just installed and it's working as intended again. Thank you

Updating my desktop to 1.45 and rebooting still results in the Windows menu appearing when pressing the Windows key instead of Start 11 menu. Clicking Start button opens Start11 menu as expected. Win 22H2 (22621.1778)  Full disclosure, my "vintage" Northgate keyboard creates a pseudo Windows key from Right-Cntrl using Smartkeys, but it has worked flawlessly throughout Start 8, 10, and 11 until this past couple of days. Malfunction was observed in 1.43, 1.44, and now 1.45.

Thanks, you've helped me fix my setup. I was in fact using a remapped *right* win key and it was the latest win update that caused the problem. Rolling back the Windows update restored the functionality (for both remapped left and right win keys) and going forward again broke them again. Fortunately, by running the Sharpkeys (randyrants.com) utility *after* the Windows update (and with Start 1.4.5.1 installed) apparently rewrote the registry mappings over whatever Windows did and now the left win key is calling up the Start 11 menu (no longer the right win key however). Thanks again, and I also can confirm Start 11 1.4.5.1 fixes the menu problem for me.

I'm having the same problem. Pressing the Windows key opens the OS start menu instead of the Start11 one. This happens 100% of the time, regardless of what application is in the foreground.

I've discovered a workaround: I can get the Start11 start menu to come up if I press Shift+Windows. This works 100% of the time.

I'm on Windows 11 Pro build 22621.1778, fully updated. My keyboard is a Keychron K10 Pro with no keys remapped. The problem occurs under both Start11 1.4.5.0-j307 beta and the out-of-band Start11 1.4.5.1 that was linked above.

Please let me know if I can assist in helping diagnose this issue.

Do you perhaps have UAC disabled?

It not please uninstall Start11.  REBOOT (critical) and then reinstall 1.45 beta.

Is this only a problem when you are using elevated apps?

If you open an explorer window and then press the Windows key (left only not right if you have two) does it open the menu correctly?

Ok looks like my issues is with Explorerpatcher i use that to make up for the things missing from start 11 that i like

Thank you!

Wonderful.  Thanks for letting us know about the explorer patcher connection.