As I have already posted, I see no thumbnail previews when I hover over the icons on the vertical taskbar. I tried it also on my backup older laptop and the behavior is exactly the same and the secondary vertical taskbar (right or left) also has no thumbnail previwes

There is also a new bug I discovered, when the Start button is centered and I change the taskbar to vertical on the secondary monitor, the taskbar is empty, restarting the explorer does not fix it, but choosing from "center aligned" to anything else the the icons re-appear.

Here are some screenshots, I cannot capture the cursor hovering over the icons to show that the thumbnails do not show.

WOW, you all are so lucky! I had a disaster. For some reason, there was a hiccup in Extreme; all my docks disappeared, and a new set of docks appeared in the Aquaman skin. What's worse is all my other skins were deleted, and the Aquaman had the tiniest fonts for the various objects. I hated to leave, but after a couple of years of working with Winstep Extreme, I would use Fences. It is not nearly as slick but will serve a similar purpose. I'm surprised you did not hear me scream all the way from Portland, Oregon.

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Unfortunately, no, there is no download link for previous released version.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

• NEW Adds experimental vertical taskbar support Windows 11 (23H2+ only)

Always hoped that you guys would finally get around to making this happen, but frankly I'm kind of surprised that you actually pulled it off, given Microsoft's complete disinterest in supporting it on Windows 11.

For several years now I've been on 3840 x 1600 UW format, and Task Bar on the left had just become "normal" for me on Windows 10. Tried other methods with varying success on Win11, but a fully integrated Start 11 implementation was always at the top of my wish list.

Now on Win 11 24H2 26100. 2894 / Windows Pro Style, and so far everything seems to be working perfectly. Icon alignment, labels, active App flyouts, System tray, Menus and positioning on the screen all seem spot on. If I find anything I'll let you know.

Can you please pass on my heartiest congratulations, and THANKS, to the development team for their amazing work.

Windows 11 24H2 26100.2894

After Start11 update it started to behave totally unstable causing entire system to freeze for a while and random programs crashing.

I have 3 screens setup. Taskbar is working fine on the primary screen, but on secondary screens taskbar is not interactive unless you click on it first. You can move mouse over icons on taskbar on secondary screens but it's not making icons to "hover". After clicking on empty space on taskbar on one of the secondary screens hover is working until focusing on something else outside it. However, if you first click directly on icon on taskbar system is freezing for a while, and after finally starting to work again it's often causing apps to crash.

It makes the update totally unusable.

There is an issue with the secondary taskbar repainting which is addressed in the 2.51 beta that is available to you in your downloads.

But it should not cause any apps to crash or anything like that as it is purely a click point error which makes it look like it is hung.  The next repaint resolved the issue hence the click working.

We have not had any other reports of apps crashing either and it would be surprising as Start11 should not even be in their process space.

What apps are crashing?

Just updated to 2.5.  My setup is:
3 monitors, pyramid style.  Primary on top.
Taskbar displayed only on primary, and configured to display at the top.
Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.2894

Issue - when I right click a running app in the taskbar, no menu appears.  If I just hover, I get the proper preview thumbnail - but right click, nothing.

Having seen this before, I reconfigured Start 11 to display the taskbar at the bottom.  Hover and right click both work as intended.  Reconfigure to display taskbar at the top, hover works, right click does not.  My guess, the right click is displaying 'upwards' into never never land.

It worked fine this morning, until I upgraded to 2.5  Should have known better and waited for 2.51 or 2.52.

Open Start11 Configuration app and click on "Start Button" in the left panel. Under "How would you like your taskbar configured," use the pull-down menu to choose you preferred alignment.

Have you tried the latest Beta 2.5.1.2 available in your Account Downloads. https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products