Not many people know how to do that Neil, does this mean Stardock will do a fix?

EDIT:    Neil has thoroughly answered my question.  Thanks Neil!

I never got a final response to my issue on the other thread.

Start11 V2 » Forum Post by RedneckDude (wincustomize.com)  

I have the same issue as Neil, Lightstar, and StevieTNZ, and after playing a bit with the Windows Personalization I think I know what is causing the issue, at least in my case. Only happens with Windows 7 style by the way. If I change it to Windows Modern style the issue goes away.

I have set my Windows mode to Dark while having the App mode to Light. If I have both Windows mode and Apps mode as the same, either Dark or Light, the problem goes away, which isn't what I want. Rolling back to version 1.4.7 for now until they fix it.

That fixed the issue for now but I do hope that Stardock fixes this without making people play with the registry since not all will be comfortable doing it.

Also, as feedback, the Windows 7 Style from the previous 1.4.7.2 version was WAY BETTER honestly. Icons spaces look awkward, Control Panel showing in 2 pages doesn't look good either...I mean...if you call it Windows 7 Style it needs to be Windows 7 Style and not a mix of Windows 7, 10, and 11. Just my two cents

We will be.  Thats a short term fix only.  We already have an internal build with a fix for that and the issue with overlapping shutdown button with the Win Launcher style when you hide the search and the username fields.

Also, as feedback, the Windows 7 Style from the previous 1.4.7.2 version was WAY BETTER honestly. Icons spaces look awkward, Control Panel showing in 2 pages doesn't look good either...I mean...if you call it Windows 7 Style it needs to be Windows 7 Style and not a mix of Windows 7, 10, and 11. Just my two cents.

Hello everyone, the taskbars can now be rounded and floating does not work with the Windows 11 PRO 23h2 build 22631,2506 version.

Do you mean the popup menus on the right hand side rather that the menu itself as nothing on the menu itself should have changed visually?

Things should only show two columns if they will not all fit as one column and so would need to be scrolled to see / access everything.  Scrolling is a terrible UI choice when there is ample screen so you can see everything.

You can add the S11_UseOldStyleBrowseMenus registry key (with "1" as a string data) to the same location as mentioned earlier to use the old menus if you wish.

I just updated Start11 v2 to 11/8/23 version and it started fine, but when I started changing things, it went bat shit crazy. How do I get the previous version installed again, because none of the issues that are presenting now (and there are many) were happening prior to today update?

Could you be a little more specific about the issues you were having?

Also were you using a 2.x or 1.x version before?

That did the trick. Thanks much. While I agree with you it might be a terrible UI choice to scroll (not in my case) the color by using your trick is now the one I had before in 1.4.7.2 (grayish) and not SUPER WHITE like the new one. It also fixed the alignment of the icons (Hard Drives, Custom Locations, etc.) so again, thank you so much. I'm happy now

Hello everyone, the taskbars can now be rounded and floating does not work with the Windows 11 PRO 23h2 build 22631,2506 version.

It should do.  Are you perhaps using an autohide taskbar?

The whole start menu became a jumbled mess; right clicking on areas was originally pulling up a menu with function, and after the mess started, the menus were large and blank; clicking on areas in attempts to fix or restore anything just made things worse. Had to reboot the WIndows 11 machine to get it back to normal - at least until I tried changing things again (which seemed to work at first and then became unruly).

I was previously using the previous v2 version.

At present, it seems find, but I have not tried to change anything since it just wastes my time and I have to reboot to get it to function at all.

What menu style were you using and what settings were you changing?

I discovered something very interesting. Upon installing V2 Release I noticed that various context menus (taskbar, menu etc..) were purple with white text. Of course I assume Start11 is just using the themes accent color. I'm currently using the Glow theme. The curious part is up until not all context menus in Every build of Start11 were always black with white text. I mean every single version. I assume this wasn't the case for everyone since I never seen it mentioned I just assumed it was a UI design choice. Go figure. Well it certainly is working for me now and I like it very much. 

Maybe I will try changing themes but I'm afraid of breaking something lol.

Great work folks.

Neil Banfield

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Quoting c242,

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Still unsolved.

Which style is that with what settings exactly?

Note the Rustdesk icon being huge although it is set to 'middle' as the other icons. That is, because the groups have titles and increase the height of the row, I guess.

It 'behaves' when dropped to another tab.

Just to confirm that this works fine for me.

Hello, when you set Advanced rounded taskbar settings, nothing happens if you set something there. I've already tried everything, reinstalled Start11, nothing works. It's probably due to the German Windows 11 23h2.

And you did enable the option to turn on rounding in the section above it? (Taskbar blur, transparency, colour, and rounded corners)?

The other settings just change the rounding, they do not turn it on and off.