I have taken the time to create the post in the hope that it might ....

• Help new users get past the lack of Help files and support documentation.
• Encourage the authors to fix the issues listed above.

First installation was faulty. Contents of tabs not visible. All tab icons were missing.  Generally a serious mess.

These were the icons available to me... ie none.

The second installation attempt was better and had tabs and a few icons to work with in terms of setting up a tabbed taskbar.

My next problem was dealing with icons.

I cannot understand why you provide such a package and then only supply a tiny collection of available icons to use.

This is what my tab looked like for disk folders of interest. 

What was particularly disappointing was that there was no option to place a short description under each icon.  I could mouse over the icons to get the underlying icon title.... but who wants to do that all day.

I had to learn how to find or create icons myself... and eventually was able to configure something like the following. [Note... I placed the text under the icons here just to indicate sample use of the different folder icons.

Clock and Calendar Docklets.

As far as I am concerned....  these are a waste of space. Also you cannot dare attempt replace the real TaskBar with StarDock while these Docklets are so wrong and so dumb.

Firstly.. the clock docklet reveals the date rather than time.

More importantly... these icons are not dynamic... ie I need to mouse over these icons to see their content.

In contrast, It took me 10 mins to create my own mini floating personal Dashboard Date Time Applet.

I can float this to any place on my screen, it updates date and time dynamically / unprompted every minute and if I click on the Date Time button it saves the date and time in the clipboard , so I can place date and time into emails / documents with a single click.

Other Items  I would include.

Group Launch.

I regularly wish to launch a group of apps with a single click to complete a specific task.

I have since added this feature to my own DashBoard.  

(Ps. I plan to extend my own Dashboard over time, so I can automate other common tasks).

Separator.

The separator is just a dumb blank space.  It should be configurable with at least 2 feature.

a. Allow variable width.

b. Allow user insert a character of their choosing.

Conclusion

In my view, Stardock is a very good tool. Sadly, it is seriously undermined by missing really basic features as part of the installation toolkit.

1. Installation failure.... never had this experience before.

2.  Really stingy supply of icons to use when building tabbed taskbars.

3. As far as I am concerned .... absolutely no Help Files, relevant Faqs, No relevant YouTube videos.  Most YouTube videos I found were 12-15 years old and most just had piped music as a background rather than a spoken tutorial.

4. Support. As far as I am concerned.... non existant.....my only recourse is to post a question on this forum and wait 24 or 48 hours or longer for some form of reply.

5. Basic features missing.

If the owners were serious about this product they would fix all of the suggestions / complaints. 

I do like ......

1. The multi tabbed taskbars.

2. The separate Taskbar which (if configured correctly) shows current active apps.... (but it was such a pain to figure this out).

Ps1. If I owned this product I would be very unhappy to release it in this condition.

Ps2.  With the current state of play with the GUI in Win 11, uncertainty re Win 12 and degrading of Widget / live panel features in Windows generally, there is a unique opportunity to provide a product which will allow users migrate from Win 10 to Win 11 and bring with them a Task Bar config that works for their custom needs and ease the learning curve of a new o/s.... but fix the issues first.

CA: Moved the post to ObjectDock section