Start11 v2.0.2 Changelog (Released 10/31/2023)

10/31/2023

• Released

• Start11 5-Pack upgrade is now available

  

10/30/2023

• Beta version updated to 2.0.0.2

• Beta install file was initially Start11_2.0.0.2-j36-Setup.exe. Replaced with Start11_2.0.0.2-j37-Setup.exe as there was an odd issue with the intaller window being small for some reason.

• Change to have UI disable pick a custom color options when mica is enabled and the menu will ignore any set color

• Resolved issue with Win pro style where quick list is sometimes cut shorter than it could be depending on menu style settings

• Filtered a rogue menu entry from the Control panel on some systems when a menu

• Added setting in the menu to set row count for tabs to set all the tabs in the group to the same height.  On by default

• Resolved issue with the taskbar on top and popup menus needing to be multiple columns end up bottom aligned rather than top aligned

• Resolved issue with hiding user icon leaving space at the top of the menu when you are using top aligned taskbar

• Resolved very short tab names being swapped with the tab index instead.  Note that tabs with no name would still have the tab index

• Resolved issue with hide from apps option under the more submenu on Win11 and Win Pro and Win Launcher styles not showing correctly

• Shift right-click menu on pinned items with enhanced taskbar enabled now offers ‘Run as other user’ if applicable

• Tweaked corner painting for shadows as Edge was being lost on new menu styles

• Stopped universal apps defaulting into subfolders as this mirrors the OS

• Resolved icon loading for iTunes

• Tweak spacing on all apps list to be slightly bigger for Win11, Win Pro and Win Launcher styles

• Resolved Fences groups vanishing from the menu on changes due to not saving the new group data/

10/27/2023

• Beta branch created versioned as 2.0.0.1
  Beta can be downloaded client account page or Object Destkop Manager (ODM) with ‘Show betas’ check in Options

• Updated config exe only to fix the reading of font size settings not working correctly.

• Resolved issue with Pin installed app menu not letting you pin from a submenu and instead launching the app.

• Resolved issue with ‘this parameter is incorrect’ error when enabling menu backgrounds and grid backgrounds

• Resolved issue with taskbar popup menus not correctly handling virtual folders

• Adjusted pinned taskbar suggested apps list to be limited to 14 items

• Corrected positioning of the menus when links in the quick access shortcut list are set to open menus for Win11/App/Pro styles

• Added arrows indicating quick access shortcut list entries are menus on Pro style

• Added option for narrow right-hand side of Win Pro style menu

• Added option to hide user icon for Win Pro and Win Launcher style menus

• Resolved issue with logout & shutdown menus showing on the wrong screen when using the Win10 style menu when there is a monitor on the left of the menu.

• Resolved runtime error issue with pinned items for some users without VC runtimes installed

• Tweaked detection of Win taskbar mode in config on OOBE

• Resolved issue with renaming icons

• Fixed sync typo on advanced settings option for Win10/11/Launcher/Pro/App menu styles

• Resolved canceling tab drag with escape left menu in tab dragging mode for painting until a click on the menu happened

• OS pin syncing was adjusted to avoid possible issues with reimporting in error

• Resolved issue with some missing jumplists

• Resolved issue with popup menus on side of Win7/Modern menu showing access denied

• Resolved issue with tooltips on Win7/Modern menu right hand side showing numbers for some items

• Added support for hide search field when not searching to Windows App style/Pro style/ Launcher style menus

• Resolved issue with showing icon on shutdown button in Win7/Modern style

***Reserved***

So to be clear, to see \ reproduce this:

• One has to be in the act of right-clicking a taskbar item
• At that very same moment, the \ any app has to be receiving a system \ toast notification?

I tested it with that understanding and did not have the same results

TB Centered, Enhanced:off

TB Centered, Enhanced:on

TB Left, Enhanced:on

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Not at the very same moment, notifications stick around for 5-10s or so?

Right clicking anything on the S11 managed task bar while the notification is out moves the notifications box to where you clicked. And it stays misbehaving even after that. It is very odd, sometimes they are stuck there until reboot, sometimes the side tray stops working all together.

Reproduced on at least 4 machines since my post under v1.27.

I don't think teams notifications behave the same way, I don't get the shift when its a teams notification. Maybe because of the extra quick reply box? I didn't notice that before.

No other software. I even try this again whenever I reformat/reinstall windows or setup a new machine. Clean install with just S11. Same behavior all the way back since 21H2. 

It happens with everything else that I have, ghub, onedrive, corsair icue, discord, teamviewer. I guess teams itself is different somehow.

Try right clicking after the notification is already up?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Av9SP17xgx3L-C9KfDDGws7mNeq9dr8k/view?usp=sharing

Here is what I am talking about. (Sorry I did not see a way to add a video here like you just did, so it is public on my gdrive)

Great!, I thought I was going insane here. Thanks for looking into it.

Sometimes it also messes up the whole 'notification tray' afterwards, where it will expand out to wherever you had right clicked. But I wasn't able to consistently reproduce that. Only way to fix the tray when that happens was to restart explorer/reboot.

Initially it was barely even an issue, until the tray decided to shift too.

start 11 v1.47 Key not ative start11 v2 ??

Start11 v2 requires a Start11 v2 key.  This is a paid upgrade from 1.x unless purchased since 1st October 2023.

The 5x Pack Start11 upgarde is working, the 10€ for 5 Upgrade licenses is fair. The new Windows Pro Style is my favourite.

As i'm using a central start on a bottom taskbar, some glitches are still there, like in 1.X. Some menus still opening from bottom, i assume they are too hard coded in the Windows code.

the issue i reported Start11 v2.0 Public Preview Feedback Thread has not been addressed or answered, and the problem still persists after installing the release version

Issue - 

of the 7 choices of the start menu options in start 11, none of them works after I click and enable them

its just my original start menu, no change is applied no matter what I do

Windows version - 

Windows 11 22H2 22621.2428

Screenshot - start menu appears as default windows one, despite enabling the windows 7 menu in Start 11 (i blurred the icons), same thing occurs when selecting other start menu types

Steps to recreate the issue seen -  

Start 11 > Start Menu > enable (any option)

Version - Start 11 2.02

i tried clean uninstall, windows restart etc

i feel like I am being scammed at this point, where a major feature of the software is not working and there is no support or whatsoever

"Show Hidden Items List" option not working on Version 2.0 BETA 1.02 when using the "Windows App style" or "Windows 10 style"