Neil Banfield

Neil Banfield

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Reply to Start11 2.71 Release Feedback Thread in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="heart-of-ice" reply="3993122" id="541589"] It's only the Start11 start button that exhibits this behaviour when the taskbar is positioned on top. No other items (not even the Taskbar Pin) has a cursor highlight misalignment. There's nothing conflicting with anything else on my system so I'm not going to mess with a system that isn't broken by volunteering as tester for Stardock software on my personal home computer. I'll see if I'm eligible for a full refund. Thanks f

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Reply to Latest Windows Update Screwed Up The Mica Effect in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="FRiNGE07" reply="3993109" id="541590"] I don't care that it works for you. I have been using this software for 12 years, so I know how to use it. Stop making it seem like it's on my end when it clearly is not. Other people have confirmed it in this thread. It is broken! plain and simple! Literally, 3 people just said they have this problem. learn how to read before you assume someone else is incompetent. Maybe you should

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Reply to Pin a program on the secondary screen in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="Martyyy" reply="4" id="3992799"] I guess it requires some sort of super special setting for the double right-click to work properly. On my machine A second right-click just shows the same menu as it does for the first right-click. [/quote] You have to right click on the menu itself where the icon and title is showing. Not on the taskbar twice as that will need do the same thing twice.

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Reply to Wrong Icons on the task bar in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="v3rb0s3" reply="8" id="3992775"] I have encountered a similar but new issue: Now the context menus are all scrambled. This is me right clicking on Nitor (5th icon), but seeing the context menu for Affinity Designer (9th icon). Firexfox and Chrome show their own menus, the rest is not just shifted, but scrambled. E

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Reply to wbload.dll in WindowBlinds 10 does not meet the Microsoft signing level requirements in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

protected processes do not allow non MS signed dlls into them. This is probably why you get that error. It is not a problem, it is just logging that the OS blocked it. We cannot block the loading and exclusion would make no difference as in order to process the exclusion we would have to load the code which is being blocked. You can just ignore it. There was also a case of some dlls not being date countersigned which could also be the trigger of this.

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Reply to Start11 (v1) suddenly looses search and apps until explorer.exe restart in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Given the symptoms I would suggest something is interfering with Start11s ability to run windows search indexer searches over time. This could be a resource leak from something else, an OS bug or some other cause. Given it seems new and Start11 1.x has not changed in a long time it would seem most likely to be external to Start11 itself. It would be interesting to see the resource usage of explorer.exe when it stops working, both for memory, GDI, USER and handles usage.&nb

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Reply to Incredibly frustrating to get support in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

Updates to Start11 that should prompt you are uncommon, so unless you have installed it via ODM and have show betas enabled you shouldn't be getting regular update prompts at all. I would check what version your Start11 shows in the UI as the latest release is 2.7, though there is a 2.71 in the pipeline ready for release soon. It may be something is stopping the installation working hence requests for updates regularly.

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Reply to Start11 taskbar icon mismatch and multiple app launches on Windows Canary 29570 in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="Yanouskine" reply="7" id="3992518"] Hello, I am opening a new ticket because my previous post was automatically closed after a long period without any reply. I am currently running Windows 11 Insider Preview build 29580.1000 with Start11 2.7. The issue I previously reported is still present: taskbar labels can become incorrect,

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Reply to Start11 2.7 Release Feedback Thread in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="Z77930" reply="47" id="3992471"] Installing 2.7 has messed up the desktop icon display with the taskbar on top. I am running START11 on 3 machines, two 24H2 and one 25H2. The behavior changed with the install of 2.7 on all three. I tried to put images in this post but apparently i don't know how. After 2.7 the top row of desktop icons are under the task bar, before 2.7 they displayed as expected. I am using the auto hide taskbar option when a window is under

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Reply to Taskbar Thumbnail previews cropped after connecting a second monitor in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

[quote who="rrankins" reply="7" id="3992426"] Any update on a fix for this? I was hoping the latest update which mentioned a fix for an issue with cropping of the thumbnail previews was a fix for this issue, but I just connected my second monitor today and the problem still happens. I have to restart explorer from withing Start11 to get them back to normal. [/quote] I believe this was resolved in 2.7. I would suggest uninstalling, REBOOTING and then

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Reply to Start 11 task bar in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

This is usually a flaw in the apps you are launching. They are not respecting the workarea as they should. Sometimes this is because of previously saved coordinates for a window.

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Reply to Compatibility issue with an app? in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

[quote who="duranman2000" reply="484" id="3992277"] did that, when i run it brings me to website [/quote] Is this when you try to apply a style? This may happen if the Stardock WindowBlinds service is set to be not running for some reason. Some 'startup optimizing' utilities may do something like that.

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Reply to 2.7 Instability with S11_BLOCKMOSTTASK=1 in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

We have been able to reproduce this. It only happens when taskbar is at the top of the screen is enabled. This will be resolved in the next update. This will however not solve much for you as the taskbar will then be at the bottom of the screen. I was unable to reproduce any issue with the taskbar at the top without that setting enabled though.

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