Stardock Announces Start11 - Get into the Beta Today
Beta version of Start11 goes live today
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Stardock Restores Classic Start Menu in Windows 11
Beta version of Start11 is live today
Stardock announced Start11, a program that allows users to customize the Windows Start menu. As with previous editions of the StartX products, Start11 allows users to restore the Start menu to appears as it does in previous versions of Windows as well as customize it to their liking. The beta version is now available at Stardock’s homepage.
“This first beta is designed to regain some of the lost functionality in the current Windows 11 Start menu,” said Brad Wardell, Stardock CEO. “We have a lot of exciting new features planned to make the Start menu not just more accessible but also more useful to companies and power users.”
The first beta of Start11 is compatible with Windows 11 and Windows 10, supports moving the start button to the middle or to the left, makes visible many subtle Windows features, and provides a new configuration UI that allows extensive customization.
“The new UI has been designed to support future Start menu designs,” said Wardell. “Start8 and Start10 focused on restoring previous versions of the Start menu. Start11 will be extending this to support a host of new Start menu ideas such as the concept of pages, tabs, minimalism, and features for our enterprise customers.”
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Reply #22 Wednesday, August 11, 2021 6:31 PM
Okaaayyye. Can't thank you enough, Stardock. Once again, you make Windows usable. I've got it on Win 11 beta and will soon try it out on Windows 10.
signed,
Lifelong Customer
Reply #23 Wednesday, August 11, 2021 7:40 PM
I'm running the Insider Beta 11, So far, Start11 is working fine.
Reply #24 Wednesday, August 11, 2021 10:23 PM
As the beta moves on there should be significant changes over Start10 on Windows 10.
Thanks for the info, Neil.
Reply #25 Thursday, August 12, 2021 2:54 PM
I'm running the Insider Beta 11, So far, Start11 is working fine.
Reply #27 Friday, August 13, 2021 1:02 AM
XDA Developers has noted its arrival:
https://www.xda-developers.com/start11-launches-in-beta-so-you-can-change-the-windows-11-start-menu/
Reply #29 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 8:04 AM
Start menu animation is jittery when opening. I also noticed it does not allow its animation to be changed via window fx. Startmenu Jump list really need that sliding animation that windows 7 had when opening them. Please add animation to that part of the start menu. Its been like that ever since start8. It just looks out of place now with all the smooth new animations windows 11 has.
Reply #32 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 3:58 PM
Question re: number of activations.
On most prior Stardock products you could install and activate on up to 5 machines. This is handy in that I use multiple VM's on my dev machine, and am using different combinations of WindowBlinds / Curtains / Start10/11 on them. With Start11 though, it seems to be limited to one install and activation per license. Is this the new policy going forward? or something for the beta phase only?
If it's the new policy going forward, if I "upgrade" my Start10 license to Start11, does it then drop it to only one install & activation also?
Reply #33 Friday, October 8, 2021 10:20 AM
Does installing Start11 beta automatically uninstall Start10, or do I need to manually uninstall Start10 first? TIA
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Reply #21 Wednesday, August 11, 2021 5:37 PM
Since my old rig does not meet the current minimum hardware requirements to install Windows 11 and I'm not going to build a new one, is there anything about Start 11 that will benefit a rig running Win10 and Start 10? I'm assuming Start 11 is meant for Windows 11 only to be honest. Am I wrong in that assumption?
As the beta moves on there should be significant changes over Start10 on Windows 10.