Basically Start11 v2 is what Start11 should have been from the beginning, and Start11 became Start11 lite.

I know you are trying to find a balance between effort, dedication and obviously profit, but understand consumers. I am not the only one who complained about this situation, and you know it.

Anyway, thanks for responding and for the effort and dedication.

This way there would be a Start program for all tastes and budgets.

And indeed Microsoft has no direction steady with Windows 11 (nor had it with Windows 10).

Most likely the same thing will happen with Windows 12. I hope I'm wrong.

I have seen this installation fail before using the OD installer. Try downloading the individual installer from your Account downloads page.

https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products

Repeat the process you used above to remove Start11v2 and use individual installer to perform the installation.

Try this and report back. Good Luck!   

It's obvious that no one is going to convince you that Start11 version 2 is a major upgrade worthy of purchase.

I just want to let you know that I personally support Stardock however I can, because I want to see new and updated products as Windows moves forward. Purchasing Start11v2, even though I owned v1, was a pleasure for me, because I wanted to help support their efforts. For me, I found the new features significant, and that they changed they way I interface with my computer. I use the Windows 10 style and have over 200 shortcuts to the files, folders, and apps that I access regularly. These shortcuts are all on one page, which makes accessing them much easier for me. I also use custom icons extensively, so having Start11v2 has made this much easier. I have posted a screenshot of my start menu below.

I also subscribe to WinCustomize, again because I want to support all the effort put into maintaining this site. I download a lot of content from this site.

Thanks Sean,

I like to keep my desktop clean, because I use it to display art. I am able to get to anything I need very quickly thanks to Start11v2. I use a programable button on my mouse to open the start menu, and then the most common apps, files, and folders are one click away. Less used apps, files, and folders require two clicks.

As I said, Start11v2 has improved the way I interface with my computer in so many ways. Thanks for all the great work!

pelaird

@pelaird can you make a short video of a few seconds of when you open the start for the first time when you start the computer? Do the icons load immediately? or does it have that second to load all the icons?

Because every time I start Windows for the first time and open the start menu it has to load the icons for a moment and then they are visible, I was told that the problem could be the fact that I have too many icons in the start.

You said that you have more than 200 icons, I wanted to understand if it did the same to you. thanks

I mean this

Qty is a factor but where those items \ shortcuts are located is as well.  If they are on remote storage (on the network), that would be a factor as well. 

Also 'starting Windows for the 1st time' has a lost of stuff going on, often crushing overall PC performance until it is done spinning up.  I would be more concerned if you could reproduce this after. 

I don't want to get too far into this on a release thread (as its not germane to the release itself).  If you want to investigate further, I would ask that you create a new thread for it. 

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Hello,
I believe that is possible, just need to turn off "auto arrange" and you can arrange your icons to any position you wish. You don't need spacer/icon for it.

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

You should be able to unpin Copilot from your taskbar. Pin it to your Start menu, and you will still have access.

Sorry about that. I thought this had been added to the 23H2 release version. Copilot is now a separate app, rather than part of the Windows OS. I’m on the Beta channel.

FYI, yesterday the search box started acting oddly.  I am no longer able to  type within the search box.  When I try it seems to go off and search and eventually closes.

Start 11 version 2.11

Win11Pro version 23h2, build 22631.4249

Do I just need to do a repair install, or such?

Good day, Basj.

I was able to create a video of the behavior.  However, I am uncomfortable publicly posting a video of my desktop showing my username, etc. 

Would you please provide me with the contact information necessaray to reach a tech support person directly so that I may register my problem with Stardock and privately provide them with the video evidence?    

I have tried an uninstall and reinstall Start11, no improvement.  I have also disabled the MS search box.  I get the same failure from Start11 Search.   I also have toggled the WIN11 indexing settings to see if that fixed anything.  It did not.

I have found that searches with Flow Launcher work smoothly.

Thank you