Start11 v2.5 Beta Arrives with Vertical Taskbars
Vertical taskbars for both sides of the desktop
Thursday, December 12, 2024 by BradSams | Discussion: Start News
v2.5 Beta Brings Vertical Taskbar Option on Windows 11
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Today we are releasing the Start11 v2.5 beta with new features, a couple of enhancements and bug fixes as well. The update is available now as a beta and you can download this release from the Download page of your Stardock account or through Object Desktop manager – learn more here.
New with version 2.5 is the ability to use a vertical taskbar on Windows 11. The vertical taskbar can be placed on the left or right side of the display and functions just as you remember from previous versions of Windows where this configuration was supported. To enable the new taskbar experience, open the configuration panel, click Taskbar, scroll to the Taskbar position option and select you desired configuration.
Along with the new vertical taskbar support, centered taskbar buttons with a left aligned Start icon is now supported on more than two monitors (previously only two screens were supported). While support for two monitors covered the majority of our users, we wanted to make sure power-users who have many displays can utilize this layout as well.
In addition to the new functionality, several bugs are being squashed with this update. We have improved compatibility with the latest Insider builds of Windows 11 that we expect to be released in the coming months and with this release, Start11 v2 will be ready for those updates.
Vertical taskbars have been highly requested by our community and we are happy to finally check this feature off the backlog. If you have any requests for upcoming features or find any bugs that we missed in our testing, make sure to join our community here.
And if you haven't tried Start11 v2 yet, you can download it from the app page and it is also included in the award-winning suite, Object Desktop.
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Reply #42 Sunday, December 22, 2024 6:52 AM
Hi, it's Win 11 22H2, 22621.4317.
I didn't realize I was still on 22H2, I have no idea why Windows Update has never offered me 23H2 or 24H2 and check for updates doesn't work..
Please try to get the latest update for Windows 11, at least to v23H2. You should be able to do manual update, using this guide: https://www.partitionwizard.com/news/how-to-update-windows-11-manually.html
Thank you,
Basj,
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Reply #41 Sunday, December 22, 2024 6:44 AM
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.
Hi, it's Win 11 22H2, 22621.4317.
I didn't realize I was still on 22H2, I have no idea why Windows Update has never offered me 23H2 or 24H2 and check for updates doesn't work..
Edit: so installing an "enablement package" whatever that is, caused it to work! It hasn't caused Windows Update to actually offer me 23H2 or 24H2 but that's a different issue.