pelaird

pelaird

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Reply to Custom toolbar in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="ryan_hampshire" reply="3" id="3859920"] Might i suggest systemtraymenu from the microsoft store. [/quote] As you say, this app is just a Windows 7 and earlier start menu replacement with better customization features. I never really liked those start menus and having to drill down to the file you want. I much prefer the Windows 10 style start menu with a more graphical UI. Adding a start menu page to Start11 allows me to easily find the files I want and to organi

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Reply to Excel Print Dialog Bug in Groupy Stardock Forums

[quote who="4rtz1z" reply="11" id="3859849"] any progress ? [/quote] From Neil Banfield on July 29 in the "Is Groupy Dead?" post; https://forums.stardock.com/513615/page/1/#3859775 "Groupy is next in the queue once we have a WB11 beta out there."

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Reply to Start11 1.25 Start Menu doesn't look like Windows 10 in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Once you have your style picked as Windows 10, make sure you have "Use Windows 11 style icons" turned off and "Show app list in start menu" turned on in the Start11 Advanced Configuration settings. You can now right click start menu icons and set their size, turn on or off text, and change the color of the tile background. With the settings below, your start menu should look like the Windows 10 start menu. Play around with these settings and tweak your start menu the way you like it.

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Reply to DeskScapes and Microsoft Word in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="jerryberns" reply="10" id="3859817"] Thanks, @pelaird. I forgot to specify we are using Office 2016 here. Deskscapes is Version 11 Beta 5. I have changed my DS settings to match yours. I will report if the problem persists. [/quote] Deskscapes ver. 11 Beta 5 is ver. 10.96 Office 2016 is basically the same as Office 365 and shouldn't be a factor.

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Reply to DeskScapes and Microsoft Word in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="jerryberns" reply="7" id="3859780"] I too am experiencing a flicker where the DeskScapes animated background can momentarily be seen "through" another application. This includes Word, Outlook, and Excel. [/quote] I am running Deskscapes 11 ver. 10.96 on Windows 10 Pro 22H2 build 19045.1865 and don't see this issue with any of the Office 365 apps. I have been running Deskscapes 11 since March of 2022 without any issues. I also use Excel, Word, and Outlo

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Reply to Is Groupy Dead? in Groupy Stardock Forums

[quote who="giannisgn89" reply="9" id="3859762"] Windows 11 will officially support tabs in file explorer very soon! I dont see the point of waiting for groupy any more even though it used to work fine on windows 11. [/quote] Some of us use Groupy for more than File Explorer tabs! As stated

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Reply to Taskbar clock in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="JanOscar" reply="6" id="3859738"] I do not have Windows 11, but I am pretty sure there is a configuration screen for turning system icons on or off. [/quote] Windows 11 doesn't have this feature for the clock. The clock and date are actually a button that opens the calendar and notifications. It can't be turned off.

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Reply to Taskbar clock in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="maxwellwhipps" reply="2" id="3859389"] Windows 11 Professional (x64) Version 21H2 (build 22000.832) Start 11 version 1.2.5.0 [/quote] How do you have taskbar "Toolbars" on Windows 11? Are you using another app to modify the taskbar in addition to Start11?

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Reply to Is Groupy Dead? in Groupy Stardock Forums

Awesome! Please address " Internal Reference: ODNT-4178" conflict with Excel print dialog. Thanks

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Reply to Custom Font Colors in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

I believe the font color in the Start menu is controlled dynamically by the operating system. Depending on the color of the Start menu background, the font color is either white or black. If you have a dark background the text is white, and if you have a light background the text is black. I'm not sure if there are registry settings that could be tweaked to achieve what you are asking for, but maybe Neil or Sean would know.

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Reply to restart "Start 10" in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

If you don't have a copy of the Start10 installer, login to your account and go to "My Downloads" and download the current installer. Once you have the installer on your laptop, click to install and then reboot. Once you have rebooted, you should be able to open Start10 and set it up the way you had it before.

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Reply to Start Menu Icon Custimization Features in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

There is a wealth of icons and start menu buttons on WinCustomize.com Start Buttons https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/start_menu_buttons IconPackager https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/iconpackager Icons https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/icons There a

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Reply to Custom toolbar in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote]Add a custom toolbar [/quote] Start11 doesn't allow the creation of toolbars yet. Maybe they will include this at a later date. As a workaround, if you are using the Windows 10 or 11 styles, you could create a new page and pin the files and folders you keep in your taskbar folder to that page. Once you have created the page and pinned your files, you can organize those files and folders into groups and then name the groups. Start11 ver. 1.25 allows you to use

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Reply to Start11 1.2 -- MS Office365 icons are wrong in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

In the original post, this is the icon for SelfCert.exe; an application that has been a part of Office for many generations. The app is used to digitally sign a macro project in Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio, Outlook, or Word. It's really strange that Start11 is picking up this icon for the Office apps instead of the correct app icon. I'm running Start11 ver. 1.25 on both a Wi

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Reply to Start 11 changes background color in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="Vijer" reply="7" id="3858710"] Yeah, it's a compromise. I really want the color to be consistent, but have a shadow of the background seen through it. [/quote] Try setting the background color to RGB 180 180 180 and the transparency to 99% solid. I think this is the best you are going to get.

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Reply to Adjust Start menu height in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

You could also move those tiles at the bottom to a new page. In 1.25 you can now use the scroll wheel to scroll through pages. If you make the start menu height smaller to hide those tiles, you will still have to scroll down to see them. Either way you are going to have to scroll. For me, scrolling to the next page(s) is my preference.

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Reply to Why can't i pin this executable to Start 11 in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="lenraphael" reply="9" id="3858609"]please post a screen shot, because when I left click anywhere in the Start Menu which is configured to be the Start 11 start menu, I only get "configure Start 11"[/quote] I'm sorry, I didn't know you were using the Modern Style start menu. Temporarily change it to Windows 10 or Windows 11 style and then follow the directions I gave you. <img src="https://cdn.stardock.us/forums/69/28/6928565/accaeb37-70f3-433c-b785-2e53b7b9715a.jpg

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