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[RG]Stardock Start11 v2.5.5.4 (x64) Multilingual

Started by CZFXP, Mar 12, 2026, 01:02 PM

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Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 11

 Start11 - the industry's most advanced start menu.

Start11 solves Windows 11's worst Start menu and taskbar sins.

Make your Start menu a personalized experience.

Choose from several styles from Windows 7 to 11, or our modern adaptation of classic styles.

Personalized to your preferences

Customize your Start menu by adding or removing sections, changing the icon, and moving it to the left or keep it centered.

Customizable from top to bottom

Easily change the colors, transparency, spacing, alignment and more.

Enhance your productivity with unique features.

Bring back features from previous versions of Windows and enable new functionality.

Restore classic functionality

Ungroup your windows and restore the context menu to the taskbar in Windows 11.

Add new functionality

Add links to local and network drives, individual folders, the recycle bin, and more.

Take complete control of your search experience.

Improve your search experience with minimal distractions and better results.

Customize your search experience

With a customized search experience, your most frequently used content appears higher in the results.

Advanced Index Functionality

When paired with the Edge browser, open tabs will also appear in your search contents.

Features:

Familiar

Replace the Start menu with a classic version. Choose from several styles such as Windows 7, Windows 10, or a modern adaptation of these classic menus that feels fresh and familiar.

Enhance

Bring back missing features from previous versions of Windows like moving the taskbar to top of your display or the Windows 10-style taskbar context menu.

Unleash a more powerful and integrated search experience that keeps you centered on your content.

Personalize

Make your Start menu match your personality with robust customization options that allow you to change styles, colors, transparency, shortcut links, rounded or squared corners, and much more.

Take control of the taskbar by adjusting its size, color, blur and more to make it match your personalized Start menu.

Control

Take complete control of your Start button by moving it to the center or the left, move it to the top of the screen, or change how the Start button responds to clicks, keypresses and more.

Change the icon grid styles to find the right configuration for your workflow - keep it compact for minimalism or space it out for easier touch input.

System Requirements:Windows 11

Start11 2.55 Changelog (Released 10/02/2025)

02 Oct 2025

Version

    UI: 2.55

    Start11Config.exe: 2.5.5.4

Changes

    Resolves an issue with bad info in some control panel shortcuts (Turn windows features on and off in particular).

    This fixes an issue with taskbar thumbnail popups being far left on secondary displays

    Tweaks right-click on some files in S11 to reduce the impact of a background check that has to take place to determine taskbar pin status.

    Fixes issue with pinning an item to the taskbar having a lower-than-expected res icon in some situations.

    This tweaks taskbar thumbnail positioning to potentially prevent it being too far left sometimes.

    Fixes issue with Cloudflare warp and vertical taskbars

    Fixes issue with shutdown menu in Win10 menu showing different results when right arrow opening it vs clicking or pressing enter

    This tweaks how thumbnails are handled, especially on mixed dpi setups

    Tweak for non clickable areas of the screen caused by the thumbnail window

    New option to make auto hide taskbars only hide when a window is over them (the topmost window on any given display)

    Added in RDP as an alias in search for Remote Desktop

    Added support for anything following -- in a search string to be passed as a command line.  This only works with some apps, depending on how the app has a shortcut

    Added new command line for Start11Config to apply changes to registry keys if done manually.  Run Start11Config RELOADSETTINGS

    Performance improvements to general drawing and animations,

    Fixes for older icons having boxes around them sometimes

    Tweak that may help whatsapp notification badges

    Should fix issue with taskbar areas getting screen dirt

    Should resolve issue with DisplayFusion secondary taskbars not showing correctly

    Resolves issue with shadows on menus being the wrong way up

    This should resolve the issue with WhatsApp and message notifications

    Adds in support for S11_OnlyShowSignout registry key which makes Sign Out the only power menu option. Location:

    \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8

    Fix to a thread leak when opening locations as menus, a memory leak in the same situation resolved

    Fixes for custom start button image size when resizing a vertical taskbar and when on Win10. 

    Fix for fullscreen animations on insider build painting twice,

    Tweaks universal icon loading to be quicker, resolves some steam game icons being small and instead stretching low res icons for those larger

    Fix for switching virtual desktops causing taskbar changes if the user has different non max/max settings

    Wheel mouse can now be used to scroll vertical taskbar when full

    Resizing a vertical taskbar now correctly recentres things

    A possible fix for non clickable areas of the desktop for some users

    The position of the thumbnail previews on a vertical taskbar have been tweaked to overlap less though they may go slightly off screen but not unusably so

    A small tweak to tab image loading to reduce max memory usage during load of an image.

    Now shows sub menus for folders for computer link and document

    Resolves a performance issue with large menus

    Resolves issue with closing the start menu with the mouse causing it to reopen if the mouse moves between mouse down and up on the start button with the start menu open

    Fixes the mouseover indicator in Win10 style menus

    Fixes spotify taskbar icon bug.

    Fixes a problem with right clicking to the left of the start button on a secondary taskbar when the taskbar is set to centred with enhanced taskbar enabled

    Translation updates

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