I rebooted but it didnt help, then I ran another unrelated app as administrator and magically the items on the task bar reappeared. The start11 start menu items were always there. sorry probably impossible to repro but a data point for you

Great news. The left side is where my taskbar always lived on the wide displays of today.In the beta top alignment works for me, left and right alignment are ignored and leave the taskbar where is was on the bottom. (3480x1440 125%) No crashes or errormessages, so i hope the beta contains some kind of telemetrie to help you get feedback on what works on what hardware and what not.

Uninstall the build, REBOOT, reinstall.  I suspect some files were not replaced correctly.

you just made my 2024 AND 2025 The bar is back on the left !!!

after a reboot its working fine, totally awesome, now I just have to re-learn where it is, I am still looking at the bottom then I realize it has moved. Thanks!

How to enable 2.5 download, mine https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products still shows 2.49 version - Where can i download 2.5 and where is new option to enable vertical taskbar?

v2.5 Beta is UI: 2.49; 2.5 will be the release version.

Ok where is option to enable vertical taskbar -can't find it anywhere?

Love that you've done this - means I can ditch ExplorerPatcher once it's all working correctly.

Mostly seems to work OK, but I have one observation. If I use auto-hide, my desktop icons get rearranged unless they are positioned to be clear of the taskbar pop-out area. This seems to be contrary to normal Windows behavior (which doesn't reposition the icons when the taskbar is auto-hid).

If I use ExplorerPatcher to put the taskbar on the left and then use auto-hide, I can have the desktop icons as far left as Windows will allow, so there's no weird gap down the left side of the screen. Uninstalling ExplorerPatcher and using the beta Start11 to put the taskbar on the left (and again using auto-hide), all of my desktop icons get moved from the leftmost side of the screen and I can't move them back across, so I end up with an odd-looking strip of unused desktop, even though the taskbar is being auto-hid.

Still showing as 2.49 for me in my Downloads section.

See reply #27 above.

I think the name implies that this is going to be start 11 v2.5 (i.e. this years big update; big enough to be half a new version of start 11)

Of course the v2.49.1 implies that this big update is still in active development, so enjoy being part of the process. When v2.5 is released that means development is complete.

Not seeing the option to enable vertical taskbar in 2.49

See here https://forums.stardock.com/532897/page/2/#3953956

This is great, and getting closer to what I had in Win 7 and Windows 10.  But when will we be able to get a "single" taskbar at the far left on my secondary display of my 3 display setup?  Right now I can only have a single taskbar on the main display or taskbars on all displays.  

I have just installed the trial version of Start 11 v2, do I need to wait until my trial is over to get the 2.5 Beta version?

Hello,
Unfortunately, beta release only available for those who have paid license to such product.

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

It's a welcome feature, I tested it, loved it but had to revert to my standard configuration because you cannot access app icons from across all virtual desktops

This doesn't work for me. I uninstalled it completely, rebooted and reinstalled the beta (2.4.9.2-j182) and nothing changes when I set the taskbar to the left or right.

Am I not getting the latest beta or something for some reason?

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Need to know your Windows 11 full version and OS Build number. Please use Winver.exe.

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.