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Start11 v2.5

Stardock Start11 is a Windows 11 customization tool designed to bring back the classic Start menu and enhance users' desktop experience. It offers a range of features and options that allow users to personalize their Start menu and taskbar to suit their preferences.

Make Your Desktop Yours

Take complete control of your desktop with Start11. With Windows 11, Microsoft chose form over functionality and removed many different features that were available in Windows 10. With Start11, you can customize the experience to fit your personality.

Features You Expect

Windows 11 removed many features that were present in Windows 10, Start11 brings them back. From the basics like returning the right-click menu on the taskbar to ungrouping of windows on the taskbar. You can also choose to have your icons centered on the taskbar with your Start menu left aligned.

One Desktop to Rule Them All

When working with multiple devices across various versions of Windows, Start11 can help you create a common desktop experience. Make Windows 10 look like Windows 11, or 11 look like Windows 10. Or how about making both Windows 10 and 11 look like Windows 7? The choice is yours.

Remove Unwanted Content

Windows 11 brings with it a new design language but also more advertisements and content that you can't remove. Take back complete control with Start11 and remove unwanted outside content and sections of the Start menu that you don't want to see.

Start11 v2.5 changelog:

  • NEW Adds experimental vertical taskbar support Windows 11 (23H2+ only)
  • NEW Centred taskbar buttons mode in Win11 now works on > 2 monitor setups
  • Fixed issue with dragging taskbar buttons to the left of the taskbar when centered
  • Fix for DisplayFusion issue
  • Tweaks for changing the size of taskbar icons etc
  • Fixed an issue with Microsoft Loop and a resource leak
  • Fix for position of jumplist on mixed vertical and nonvertical setups
  • Fix for config having a nonfunctional indicator on the left causing an odd blank box
  • Fixed 1 en-us localization issue
  • Detection of 23H2 as we were detecting beta channel only
  • Added UI options for icon size, button width, and height to advanced taskbar settings. Only properly apply when not using OS autohide
  • Fixed issue with Win+X menu going away when you mouseover a vertical taskbar
  • Resolved issue with touch long press to get a right click not working on vertical taskbars for items
  • Resolved flicker on custom start button when mouseover on a vertical taskbar
  • Removed excess slider on advanced taskbar settings
  • Fixed issue with Win+X menu appearing in the wrong location when taskbar is on the right depending on the screen scaling factor
  • Resolved issue with on-top secondary taskbars causing a hang issue.
  • Fixes for Directory Opus taskbar docked bars
  • Added a registry key to make S11 on Win10 using center mode delay before updating : S11_DelayCentreUpdateWin10
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  • Registry location for values: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8
  • Removed excess All apps item on Win10 all apps list
  • Tweaked color of the taskbar when using color on the taskbar and also resolved accent color choice being wrong sometimes on the taskbar.
  • Fixed Win10 style on vertical taskbars not correctly painting buttons for > 1 window open when in combine mode.
  • Fixes issue with top aligned taskbar getting misaligned horizontally
  • Fixes issue with combined mode taskbar buttons not performing correct action on click when having a monitor in negative coordinates and also not working for vertical taskbars on the left
  • Fix for having a monitor with negative coordinates stopping combine mode window switch popup always showing when clicking on the taskbar. Note that newer insider versions of Windows no longer support this and will switch between windows on click rather than show the popup. This may be a bug in insiders and fix itself in the future
  • Fix for juddering jumplist when on top and using a rounded taskbar.
  • Fix for win+X menu when using on top and autohide having the submenu misaligned when not reserving one pixel for the taskbar.
  • Fixed overflow taskbar system tray icons not showing correctly when not using enhanced taskbar but with a top of screen taskbar.
  • Fix for top taskbar thumbs on insider
  • Rounded taskbar settings no longer impact taskbar items on vertical taskbars
  • Fix for thumbs on Windows Insider with autohide left aligned taskbar
  • Fix for blank taskbar after rebooting or log off \ on
  • Further login tweaks for vertical taskbars
  • Fix for >2 monitor taskbar center mode
  • Clock text on the vertical taskbars is made less small when wider
  • Fixes some secondary monitor issues with autohide, vertical and screen workspace
  • Fixes a case of no settings showing in search
  • Removes - File explorer from taskbar buttons
  • Resolved issue with clicking on pinned taskbar items in combined mode causing a new instance of the app to launch sometimes
  • Resolved an issue found when fixing that to do with clicking doing nothing on newer OS builds sometimes if the thumbs window was open.
  • Resolved thumbs placement issue with beta channel update
  • Resolved jumplist not showing when taskbar is on top on secondary displays and now with enhanced taskbar off on primary too
  • Removed hyphen from 'Task Manager' in the supported languages.

Start11 is only $7.40 For more information about Start11, please visit Start11 website.