Quoting Chris TH,

reply 25

Hi, quick question about the monitor layout above:

Monitor 1 is the laptop own screen physically situated per the layout above
Monitors 2 & 3 are a Samsung C49RG9x 49" monitor configured as 2 x 2560 x 1440 monitors (Samsung "PBP" - "Picture by Picture" mode).
Monitor 2 is configured as the main display with Start112.49.3 configured as a vertical taskbar on this monitor only.

When accessing (right clicking) the taskbar tray icons (bottom left of monitor 2) is there a way to bias the tray icon dialog to appear in monitor 2 only?
Currently they appear in monitor 1 where the borders of monitors 1 & 2 overlap.

I guess a workaround is to position monitor 1 to be below monitor 2 in display settings but then the mouse pointer tracking can get confusing...

Hello,
I have forwarded 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.

Note while waiting, please provide few more details.

1. Windows 10 or 11? And need its full version and OS Build number. Please use Winver.exe.
2. If you disable the Samsung PBP mode, reboot the system, does the issue goes away?
3. If you change all the taskbar to bottom mode, does the issue goes away?
4. If you change the Start11 taskbar enhance mode from on to off or from off to on does the issue goes away?

Thank you.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Quoting harscoet,

reply 27

when using the Windows 10 taskbar button style (the Windows 11 button style looks pretty bad vertically imho), the highlight on the left of the button is very thin and very hard to see...

In what way is the windows 11 button style looking bad to you?  It should look just like the Windows 11 one but stacked vertically instead of horizontally?

With regards to the Windows 10 look.  It should be identical to the Windows 10 taskbar when on a vertical taskbar.  Size of indicator included.  The issue here seems to potentially be a colouring issue?  It uses the OS accent colour but that seems to be blending in with your taskbar colour.

Have you overridden your start menu colour in Start11?

Just for reference, here is what it look like on actual Windows 10 with left vertical taskbar.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Hi all, I'm seeing issues even after uninstalling without keeping settings, reboot, reinstall, reboot of 2.49.3.

Whether I place the taskbar on the right or left of my two screens. I don't see a start button on the taskbar, but clicking the app showing where the start button should be, opens the start menu. Which also means I can't click the app that's in the start button position and have to use keyboard shortcuts to bring the app back to the front. 

Also, on my second monitor, nothing shows on the taskbar except the date/time at the bottom. If I click on the taskbar where the start button should be, the start menu opens. Any apps I move to the second monitor still show on the primary monitor taskbar, not the secondary monitor taskbar.

I also just noticed that when I minimize an app on the secondary monitor, the animation makes it appear like it's minimizing to the top of the screen, not to the right where I have the taskbar. 

All,

The Start11 beta has been updated to 2.49.4.

For details, please see:

https://forums.stardock.com/533419/get;3956008

As always, thank you for your time, feedback, and support

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Fixed in 2.49.5

So...  I've run into a tricky regression going from 2.49.3->2.49.4.  I say it's tricky because it involves other 3rd party software.  Normally, I wouldn't bother bringing 3rd party software problems to another 3rd party...  except that only 2.49.4 has this problem and downgrading immediately fixes it.  I don't want to stay on 2.49.3 forever, so I'm trying to report it anyways.

I use the default Windows taskbar hiding on my primary display, Start11 is not "enhancing" it.  On my secondary display, DisplayFusion(11.0.5) is creating a taskbar substitute as it is far superior to the Windows secondary taskbar.  In 2.49.3, this works fine...  although it doesn't work well if I let Start11 "enhance" the taskbar and replace the hiding behavior with the fadeout instead of default slide.

In 2.49.4, Start11 is somehow tricking DisplayFusion into thinking that the taskbar is reserving space from the screen bounds and that the working area is no longer the entire screen.  DisplayFusion's taskbar on the other screen ends up moving upwards away from the bounds by the same amount the taskbar normally takes and then reserves the space above that for its own taskbar...  which takes 2x the space from the working area of the desktop.

When the taskbar is hidden, things look normal.  When the taskbar slides up, DisplayFusion moves its taskbar up by the same amount.  It's evidently reading some size from the real Windows taskbar to figure out the space to reserve... and 2.49.4 is now messing that up somehow.

Again...  this feels weird bringing this problem up with Stardock... except that the move from 2.49.3 to 2.49.4 is the cause.  Which is super strange because I asked Start11 not to "enhance" the taskbar.  But it's obviously doing something new with this version.

Open the spoiler for a GIF of the issue:  (okay, never mind...  spoiler tags don't even work on the forum for some reason)

Windows 11 Home 24H2 26100.2605

Please specify the parameters for the Data Values. Also, is the listed Registry location correct? All the other custom Registry settings are at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8.

I spent some time testing this feature and I really like it a lot

You are correct "\start8" needs to be added to the end of registry location

Also the value you give to each entry determines the size. (clicking modify and changing the value)

correct me if I am wrong but I believe the following values are the default sizes for each

icon size 24

Taskbar height 48

taskbar width 44

so therefore you could add a value probably between 1 - 100 for each size modification

restarting explorer is all you need to do to see a change if done correctly

Great feature, love it! I would love to also see taskbar labels next to change the size of never combined buttons

I didn't even notice it, but yes I do appear to have a white box in the same location as you

What about the issue in Reply#37?

Also, what exactly does each setting control?

This is correct. And I believe my sizing chart in reply 40 is at least somewhat accurate.

For example, for icon size; any value below 24 will be smaller and any value above 24 will be bigger. For comparison I set my value at 28 and like that number myself

I think you may be right. If I set the value really high such as 70 I do see different sizes. Especially with never combined activated. I dont notice any issues if the value is 30 or below however. So it does appears that taskbar height is the issue for oversized icons working two different ways

The config issue looks to be a manifest issue in the config exe.

Should be sorted in the next update.