SebSebsensen

You're right, and maybe the problem is that I am not too familiar with how Windows behaves in that regard - I am more or less "forced" to still run some machines with Win11 and respective software. All the windows machines run "netlimiter" in addition to the on-board firewall, and the interceptions happen at client level. Weird thing is, that I usually / almost exclusively see outbound requests like these ones: "checkip.dyndns.org", "dyndns.kasserver.com" or e.g "xxx.devolutions.com"

thanks. I'll have to investigate why that happens, calls to other (sub)domains show the actual target. Does it result in any loss of functionality in case the application cannot contact " activate.api.stardock.net"? If I introduce the application to the company network there will be a bunch of clients that are behind extremely restrictive proxies, updates etc. will be done centralized.

Thanks, the purpose you mentioned could be reasonable (and most likely is), but even then it would be better if it pointed to a Stardock domain (ideally a subdomain with a "speaking name") and not some generic reverse DNS of some hoster/ISP. Maybe that could be changed in a future patch?

Seriously, I am a bit surprised that nobody at Stardock seems to have an answer? I did a little bit of digging with Sysinternals tools and there's no doubt that it's the Stardock Start11 (10) DLL: this event in explorer exe Date: 12.02.2026 22:50:54,5608607 Thread: 13176 Class: Registry Operation: RegQueryValue Result: NAME NOT FOUND Path: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\

Hi there, I've got extremely restrictive outbound rules even on my home-network firewalls, and I noticed that every single machine where I activated one of my Start11 licenses has explorer.exe attempting to establish outbound connections to "tnmi-static-110-209-79-66.ip.telnetww.com" from that respective day. I doubt that this is a coincidence. That happens at least every 24 hours, and it does not matter if the system is in use or idle. It is <span style="text-decorat