Start 11 v1 & v2 » Forum Post by Chris-T

If there are only a few more items than fit on one line then it would be normal to have a few items on the second line.

Could you post screenshots of what you mean?

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I can't at the moment because it's working fine. What I mean is that items that were on the second line disappear sometimes leaving only one or two when there should be many more. Having read another post where hiding the taskbar caused other problems I am experimenting with not hiding the taskbar. So far I have two full rows all the time. Fingers crossed.

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Sadly switching off taskbar autohide hasn't fixed it after all as you will see from the image. The top two lines are the normal task bar with the main taskbar and the overflow below it and and the bottom image is the overflow taskbar with many items missing as you can see. Only the last two items are showing. The others have just disappeared and "might" reappear if Explorer is restarted but will always reappear after a reboot until it goes wrong again either minutes or maybe hours later. This is the main reason I bought Start 11 so I am disappointed at the moment.

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Quoting Chris-T,

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Sadly switching off taskbar autohide hasn't fixed it after all as you will see from the image. The top two lines are the normal task bar with the main taskbar and the overflow below it and and the bottom image is the overflow taskbar with many items missing as you can see. Only the last two items are showing. The others have just disappeared and "might" reappear if Explorer is restarted but will always reappear after a reboot until it goes wrong again either minutes or maybe hours later. This is the main reason I bought Start 11 so I am disappointed at the moment.

If you resize the taskbar to two lines do things show better?

Which items have gone missing exactly and how many of those are pinned items?

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As I said in my previous message all but the last two items have disappeared from the bottom row, can you see that on the top pair of images (bottom row) there are very many items to the left of the last two items, all of those are missing from the bottom image.

I will try the two line approach but for me that is a very poor solution (if it is one) because I don't want the taskbar taking up that much room. I have always preferred it hidden but I could tolerate one row visible all the time but not two.

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You could try the new option for "Pin folder menu" on the taskbar and group your taskbar apps into folders. That way your taskbar wouldn't be full, but you could still access all your apps. I tested this with "Automatically hide the taskbar" and it works fine.

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As I said in my previous message all but the last two items have disappeared from the bottom row, can you see that on the top pair of images (bottom row) there are very many items to the left of the last two items, all of those are missing from the bottom image.

I will try the two line approach but for me that is a very poor solution (if it is one) because I don't want the taskbar taking up that much room. I have always preferred it hidden but I could tolerate one row visible all the time but not two.

The reason I ask is there is a possibility your rows have gone to three and you are only seeing two. Making two (or three) rows show should let us find out if the problem is a painting one or if the items are in fact missing.

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As I said in my previous message all but the last two items have disappeared from the bottom row, can you see that on the top pair of images (bottom row) there are very many items to the left of the last two items, all of those are missing from the bottom image.

I will try the two line approach but for me that is a very poor solution (if it is one) because I don't want the taskbar taking up that much room. I have always preferred it hidden but I could tolerate one row visible all the time but not two.

The reason I ask is there is a possibility your rows have gone to three and you are only seeing two. Making two (or three) rows show should let us find out if the problem is a painting one or if the items are in fact missing.

OK, thanks, I will try that the next time it appears to go wrong.

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You could try the new option for "Pin folder menu" on the taskbar and group your taskbar apps into folders. That way your taskbar wouldn't be full, but you could still access all your apps. I tested this with "Automatically hide the taskbar" and it works fine.

Thanks, that could be a good workaround.

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Neil, You were right after all about things shifting onto a third line. I wasn't seeing that at first because I used my mouse wheel to scroll to the overflow line of items. Despite the mouse wheel being set to scroll one line at a time it missed the second line altogether and went straight to the the third line making me think that items were missing. So Start 11 is working like it should and it's Windows that isn't. Sorry to take up your time with this but it's Microsoft's fault rather than mine.

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