Neil Banfield

Reply to Does not Recognize Windows to Group in Groupy Stardock Forums

Groupy will only group windows which have titlebars and your other windows do not have titlebars. They seem to be showing at most a menubar.

Reply to Start11 2.56: Disable Taskbar Peek? in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="rpvenker61" reply="4" id="3986400"] If this is related to the "autohide" of the Taskbar, I'm very unhappy with this new "feature". I cannot find a way to NOT autohide the taskbar. In addition, the taskbar size is too big and I can't seem to adjust it. Please fix this! If not fixed soon, I'll look for alternative applications. Thanks! [/quote] It sounds like you have set your OS taskbar to touch mode. Then yo

Reply to Disk space issue for Deskscapes in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

ExtractedData is where the dreams are extracted when they are in use. You can clean up this folder if you wish by clicking on settings in the DeskScapes UI, then pick settings from the menu and then on the advanced tab you can click clear extracted files folder.

Reply to Start11 2.56: Disable Taskbar Peek? in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

The next beta build of S11 will have a registry key which may offer you control over this.

Reply to Start11 on arm Surface Pro : configuration impossible in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

It should be prompting for activation at that point. It sounds like something is blocking that from running. What build of Start11 are you installing and what antivirus/security products do you use?

Reply to Nothing on this site works in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

First thing to check, are you sure you purchased start11 V2 not v1? That would certainly cause that error. What was your purchase date?

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

[quote who="Svetloslav" reply="9" id="3986159"] Not really a comparable situation. He is a small developer. Can't give support at the level of Stardock. But it looks like I won't be finding it here as well. [/quote] The issue here is the software was working fine together and then stopped after an update with one of the apps. It does seem reasonable to speak to the developer of that app given it is crashing and nothing changed our side. Unfortunately when you h

Reply to Multiplicity 4 – Primary computer locked / Activation required in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

[quote who="Seriosa" reply="11" id="3986092"] Thank you very much for the clue! After extensive debugging, My friend and i found the issue. It was NOT related to: Windows builds .NET Framework corruption Activation/license problems User profile issues <p

Reply to Start 11 Taskbar painting in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Can you post a screenshot?

Reply to Multiplicity 4 – Primary computer locked / Activation required in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

If no activation prompt shows then the problem is probably a damaged .net install on the PC. The only part of the app that needs .net would be that window.

Reply to Must have access to Windows Tools (e.g., EventViewer, Device Mgr) on secondary in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

A screenshot of what you are seeing might also help.

Reply to not working due to DWM not being enabled, except, it is enabled. in WindowFX Stardock Forums

[quote who="Kryxzort" reply="7" id="3986027"] i've run sfc /scannow multiple times, didnt fix, and i do use something related to dwm, its called dwmblurglass, pretty sure that uses dwm, so if that can, then it must be something else? is there a way to like have the app ignore if dwm on or off and just try running? [/quote] Unfortunately no, the app relies on the OS telling it the truth. If it says no DWM it will disable those features as using them would break badly

Reply to not working due to DWM not being enabled, except, it is enabled. in WindowFX Stardock Forums

If it says the DWM is not enabled then something on your computer is making the DwmIsCompositionEnabled api to return false. My best guess is you have installed some sort of OS mod like windhawk and that is doing that to achieve something else. Unfortunately if that is the case then it is breaking WindowFX and you would have to disable / remove whatever is causing that.

Reply to Unable to save a new secondary computer into the grid in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

You should check you didn't accidentally add as kvm mode if it is KVM mode and also it isn't on the right hand side waiting to be dragged onto the grid. Another thing to check is the service is running correctly as without that you cannot change any settings at all. Seeing if anything like creating a hotkey or toggling other settings get saved OK after a close and reopen would confirm this.

Reply to Start 11 Task Bar Oddities in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

I do not see anything attached? Do you mean 1.55 or 2.55?

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

[quote who="Svetloslav" reply="5" id="3985660"] Please guys, can you check compatibility with StartAllBack? Start11 became incompatible with it as of his version 3.9.18.5338, because he had to make changes to fix a problem, that showed in the developer builds of 26h2. [/quote] As a general rule we do not support insider releases of Windows as they are prone to changes which can waste development time. I think we would need more details on what you mean by incompatibl

Reply to Steam played hours counter keeps going back and forth in Galactic Civilizations IV Stardock Forums

This will be controlled by Steam so you would need to speak to them. I imagine it will sort itself eventually though as probably some sort of database backend glitch.

Reply to Broken themes on WB11 in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Hi. How can I fix this style? so that it isn't grayish blue? And why are so many themes in WB11 so broken? [/quote] I am not seeing a bug h

Reply to Display icon names in the start menu in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="Yogi 575" reply="3" id="3985711"] Hi guys, thanks for the quick replies ... thomas-k : I have the setting "Use automatic colour for the start menu" set to "On", so no strange colours are in use. I'll upload a screen copy next Basj : I have a large desktop screen so I had the icon size set to huge. I've changed them one step at a time, al

Reply to "Show search result filtering icons" doesn't work correctly in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="thomas-k" reply="8" id="3985465"] Tweaked search filter bar to filter by file type rather than category for images / docs / music files For me, pictures are not part of documents. The music filter should at least display the most common music formats.

Reply to Shortcut Icon Option Resolutions in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

The icon loading is identical but one may be from a different shortcut which points to a different icon file.

Reply to Task bar icons get covered up when hovering to select in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Enabling enhanced taskbar would almost certainly avoid this issue. What problems are you having with enhanced taskbar? That is the strongly recommended option when using taskbar not at the bottom.

Reply to Power Button - only need Sleep, Restart & Shutdown in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Can I ask why you need no sign out option as it may be something we can add. If you add the registry key "DisableSignInOptionsLink" as type REG_SZ with a value of 1 to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8 it will hide the sign out options link. For lock it is controlled by the OS system policy. If lockworkstation is blocked by that then the option will hide. Likewise the sign out option is controlled by the REST_STARTMENULOGOFF p

Reply to Shortcut Icon Option Resolutions in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

If the icon has a grey box around it then the app lacks high resolution icons. Usually nothing above 48*48. We try our best to avoid this but sometimes it is not possible and the box is added by the OS when requesting bigger sizes. Icons requested scale with os resolution. Windows will typically downscale the 256*256 icon to whatever we request.

Reply to Groupy 2.30 Release Feedback in Groupy Stardock Forums

ChatGPT is incorrect in many ways. For example "Groupy cannot group UWP apps reliably by design." The general rule is very simple. No titlebar flag (WS_CAPTION) or owned by another window (i.e. child window) you cannot group. Also windows smaller than a certain size as transitory typically.