Neil Banfield

Neil Banfield

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Reply to Start11 - explorer exe phoning home in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Start11 runs most things inside explorer and this will be where activation checks and update checks take place. The only other processes running for Start11 run at much higher user rights which would be poor choices for this. Almost all the Stardock apps work like this and always have done. As for the URL itself, I am unsure why it would be trying to go there unless thats a check for internet query as it should be hitting SD servers only. I will ask someone who will

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Reply to Start11 2.60 Release Feedback in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="Nikosyan" reply="39" id="3988402"] Just for Information: The last Windows Update from yesterday messed everything in my Multimonitor setup with Start 11, I was not getting any icons on the Start11 taskbar, everything was getting slow and frozen, no matter how many times I restarted Explorer, the Start 11 service and the app. In the end I had to uninstall, reboot and install Start 11 to get back in order. Having lost 2 hours of work, from now on I will be always re-install Sta

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Reply to Feature request - Group tabbed windows together in ALT + TAB in Groupy Stardock Forums

[quote who="DougCube" reply="6" id="3988352"] Okay, but can you give a more detailed explaination, please? Also, what is the issue that Groupy 1 had? I am a fairly experienced software developer (20+ years) with a fair bit of experience in QA and have dabbled with the Windows API. [/quote] Sure. The same list for alt tab is also used by the taskbar and the virtual desktops but of course in slightly different ways. You end up with windows pinned to all deskto

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Reply to Feature request - Group tabbed windows together in ALT + TAB in Groupy Stardock Forums

This has not changed as it isn't a bug. This is a limitation on how Windows works. Groupy 1 worked differently but this caused another issue. Basically you can have one issue or another, but the Groupy 1 issue would also cause problems with other Groupy 2 features (combined taskbar buttons) so it has to work as it does. The only solution would be to replace alt-tab entirely.

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Reply to Start11 v2.5 Beta Arrives with Vertical Taskbars in Start News Stardock Forums

[quote who="PMuthsam" reply="81" id="3988213"] I love the revival of the vertical task bar, but also observe some glitches. The most annyoing one: for some applications, when I hover over the icon in the task bar, the ribbon with thumbnails of the windows of this application don't appear. Even worse, sometimes the thumbnails of another application (adjacent to the one I am hovering over) are shown!! This video demonstrates the problem: <a href="https://na

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Reply to Groupy very unstable in Groupy Stardock Forums

Does the groupy config window always look black or only when things start to act oddly? That looks like some sort of resource leak.

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Reply to ObjectDock Not Respecting Windows Dark Mode in ObjectDock Stardock Forums

Those are Windows dialogs so I would suggest an OS change. Microsoft had been looking into improving dark mode as some dialogs did not support them (OS ones). It may be they have rolled this back or for compatibility only enable it on supporting apps. I am also assuming you are not using a tool that 'improves' dark mode as it may be that has changed. What version of Windows are you using exactly?

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Reply to pin web page in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="LKinH" reply="8" id="3987888"] Neither option works. ‘basj’ already figured this out on November 04 2025. I don't understand why this still hasn't been fixed in the current version? Best regards, Lutz [/quote] Do you have the option enabled in Start11 (configure menu button on bottom of config window, scroll down to advanced) called website links. I just checked here and images were obtained for

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Reply to Version 3.5 Mouse/trackball scroll wheel way to fast in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

[quote who="markofearth" reply="3" id="3986676"] Hey Sean, no has nothing to do with the mouse, I have two identical Logi Trackballs, one is used with this software one is used on a work computer. I can swap them same result. It is only noticeable on the machine that it is not connected to, on the primary where it is physically connected the scroll works fine, but when I go to a KVM machine that is where the scroll has issues. [/quote] Multiplicity just sends the

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Reply to Start11 2.60 Beta Feedback in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="Smakificator" reply="23" id="3986691"] Guys you are awesome! "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8\S11_FORCESABOptOut = "1"" With this beta is hiding the taskbar previews!!!! ! ! !1 [/quote] I assume you mean S11_HideTBPopups?

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Reply to Groupy 2.30 Release Feedback in Groupy Stardock Forums

[quote who="sdRohan" reply="25" id="3986515"] Quoting nfisin, reply 24 yes, auto-grouped, Even though I manually added the class name and software name captured by other software, it still didn’t work. Is it just

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