It will let you upgrade to start 11 at a discount. https://www.stardock.com/products/start11/ go to single and then look for the option that says upgrade. Enter your email and it will give you a discounted price to upgrade. Also note; In every new operating system from Microsoft i.e. windows 10 / 11 / 12 will come a new generation of start 10 / 11 / 12 that will cost a few dollars to upgrade.
[quote who="Envisaged0ne" reply="6" id="3906265"] So Neil Banfield thought to be helpful and address the 2nd part of the OP's post [/quote] Neil is actually the lead developer of start 11, so he would be part of the inner circle [e digicons]:grin:[/e] .. BUT, I suppose they may not be ready to release details yet.. doesn't mean I cant try [e digicons]:D[/e] I do wonder what the biggest release yet would be. i.e. a File explorer alternative, Start 11 becomes
[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="4" id="3906174"] What problems are you having with docking stations and changing resolutions? [/quote] I think you missed the first part of his question.. "Any insights on what features are coming?" [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
The last thing I can think of is to adjust display scaling under [settings] > [system] > [display] > [scale] increasing that should increase text size If that doesnt give you the look you are looking for I will leave it to Neil.
@msd Are you able to change the taskbar size under the [taskbar] option and then the [taskbar size] settings? Also note, that if you were using explorerpatcher then you probably had the Windows 10 taskbar patched into your Windows 11 system. The Windows 10 and 11 taskbar do look different and use different font. However the Windows 11 taskbar should be bigger then the Windows 10's. It sounds to me that somehow you got switched to a [small] taskbar size after uninstalling explo
@Kevin While it is true that the 22h2 update did in fact make Windows 11 customization's a little harder to use due to Microsoft's practices of changing what it allows to happen on its OS; things like taskbar resize usually does not break after a Windows update. TPScroggins is correct. Programs like explorerpatcher, by design, break on every single windows update. In fact, there are times where you could use a windows 11 modifier and it changes your registry settings. When you
I had this problem. It is a bug with 2 in 1 laptops via Windows 11's tablet mode changing the taskbar. The only way I have found to fix this is to turn off tablet mode taskbar in settings. You can do this by.. Go to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar. Expand the Taskbar behaviors section, then uncheck the box for "optimize taskbar for touch interactions when this device is used as a tablet</st
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I am actually surprised how poorly designed the never combined tabs are on Windows 11's 23h2 / moments 4 update. i.e. all the tabs are different sizes as well. Only MS would overthink something so simple.
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[quote who="basj" reply="7" id="3895723"] If Chrome book can run on Windows10 or 11 and, from what I read, its on Intel Celeron, I assume it would work. [/quote] Ah yes, The Celeron cpu is intels way of competing with the arm processors. Although it is not an arm processor. It is still a tradional x86 processor that intel was able to make way more power efficient for better portability. I like what intel is attempting to do. However, in regards to raw performance the
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It looks cool. It is a shame that it is stuck with a snap dragon cpu and an android OS. @Dr Does Groupy 2 work on a chrome book? I know it is hard to get software to work properly on these arm processors.
[quote who="naroon1" reply="22" id="3894596"] Seems the wife is more than happy with her Ryzen Laptop, a lot of power for a very wafer thin unit. Also updated my Extras on my Desktop. New Jelly Comb Keyboard, very well put together and glows either Blue, Green or Purple (as i work nights in my bedroom), and a T Wolf Illuminated Mouse. Off into Town tomorrow to spend some of my fathers Day money, maybe some bigger SSDs. [/quote] New toys are always fun. And we can alway
[quote who="naroon1" reply="7" id="3890904"] Nvidia all the way for me and has been for many years, But i have just bought the wife a brand New Ryzen I5 Laptop, and it is a good bit of kit for a Laptop, Never really thought of a Laptop to be Powerful before, As i have always been a Desktop Computer Person. [/quote] I agree, with tech advancement now a days it does seem that the laptop is advancing at a faster pace then the desktop. Chips are getting smaller, taking less powe
[quote who="BigDogBigFeet" reply="18" id="3894406"] Quoting , quoting post It's gonna be a speed beast. AMD Ryzen 7900x ddr5 memory AMD Ryzen 7900xt Graphics card. It's finally returned and working. The graphics card was DOA. It' now has a working AMD 7900
It is, also, possible to install Windows 11 on a MacBook 😁 Although it looks like you are wanting to learn Mac OS which is something I haven't tried in quite a while.
[quote who="gevansmd" reply="17" id="3894002"] Is skiing the Title Bar the only thing Curtains can't do on Windows 11? If everything else works, why not release it with that caveat? [/quote] I think now that groupy 2 is a thing Stardock now has a lot more leeway to develop software for Windows. I can see a lot more customization possibilities with groupy 2 plugged in. Of course all of this work to get things running comes at the need for groupy 2 an
[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="12" id="3893716"] Does Curtains work on Windows 1 yet? [/quote] Why are you running Windows 1? Way outdated!
[quote who="BigDogBigFeet" reply="6" id="3892074"] No, you misunderstand completely. I had a bag of at least 7 good USB sticks and the bag in its' entirety is gone [/quote] Yikes. Was anything taken out of your computer such as it's graphics card or secondary hard drive?
[quote]Suddenly all my usb sticks of which I had at least 7 are gone although I do not no why [/quote] I had an issue like this before. It turned out that Windows 10 was installing the wrong driver's for my usb ports. I had to go in and switch them to use different drivers to get them to work. At the time there were several driver's already installed on the computer and I had to find the correct one to get them.to finally work. Good luck. Sounds like
[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="15" id="3891058"] I use an RX6700 XT in my main rig. Here is a comparison between it and the RTX 3070 [/quote] I think the reason for this must come down to vram. I did not realize the 3070 cards only had 8 gigs of vram which is strange because the 3060 does have 12. A lot of games need that 12 gigs of space to run at max speeds now a days. You can see that the 3070 has to pull a lot more system ram versus the rx6700
[quote who="basj" reply="9" id="3890966"] Any reason, I should know before I move to AMD Cards? Why Nvidia only? [/quote] I know quite a few people that swear by AMD cards so not everyone hates them. The main reason for this is that AMD Cards are much cheaper for the performance you get. If you are on a tight budget then I would say go for the AMD card The main reason I prefer NVIDIA is that I feel their drivers and software support is much better. However with perfo
[quote who="BigDogBigFeet" reply="4" id="3890761"] I have changed out the Graphics card. I get getting no signal no matter what monitor I used. I am replacing it with the GTX 4090. It was either a bad card or AMD driver issues. [/quote] I prefer NVIDIA cards myself. I know AMD has the best bang for your buck, but there is still tech out there such as ray tracing that NVIDIA is just better at.
You aren't going to get too much faster then those specs. As always AMD does about the same as the competition and for a better price tag The question then is if between 32 or 64 gigs of ram?
I have actually seen Stardock do a lot of work towards supporting insider builds of Windows 11. A lot of the fixes that comes with later releases of products do have notes that fixes the functionality of an insider build. The reason they state that they do not support insider builds is for 2 reasons. One Windows does not announce what they release on these builds ahead of time and therefore breaks all kinds of functionality without warning to third party software companies. And 2, fun
[quote who="naroon1" reply="18" id="3888547"] Going Backwards, is not an option, especially as Win 12 is not really too far away now. [/quote] Hello Naroon, I agree. I have always had a fear of falling behind in tech as it all changes soo fast. I don't really like staying behind with old operating systems because then I don't know how to work the new stuff. I suspect that Windows 12 will be the more complete version of Windows 11 as this is always the case wi
[quote who="pelaird" reply="33" id="3888869"] Thanks for the info. I do have a very fast machine and meet all the requirements except for the CPU (i7-7700K). [/quote] Since Moores law is pretty much dead with cpu's, that i7 still outperorms many of the newer processors that do in fact support Windows 11 (I.e. the entire celeron class) It seems silly to have to upgrade "a very fast machine" all in the name of software. I suppose Microsofts plan was to mimick smart pho