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Reply to Rebooting fixes messed-up Start1 taskbar icons/apps mismatch? in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Thank you for the suggestion. I may have tried it in the past but I'm not sure so, I'll definitely try it out asap. But it makes sense that it would work. And would be less of a bother than having to shut down a bunch of applications and rebooting. Only drawback for me is that I often have many File Explorer windows open at the same time. Even more now that I'm working on Windows 11, where you can have evidently as many desktops as you want. And all those F

Rebooting fixes messed-up Start1 taskbar icons/apps mismatch? in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

I posted here recently about my Start11 woes, where the taskbar becomes corrupted and the icons I have pinned there no longer bring up the right apps, but rather bring up apps which would have been appropriately mapped to an adjacent icon -- basically an icon/app mismatch. Very disturbing when you are trying to get work done. Restoring a valid Start11 backup does not help. However, I have noted that, if I reboot, the Start11 taskbar is again fully functional, with all icons pointing to the ap

Start11 constantly getting confused what apps I've pinned to the taskbar in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

I have my taskbar set up and backup made. However, quite constantly, Start11 is confusing which app is which on the taskbar -- assigning the wrong app to a given app's icon. When I restore a backup, the situation is not fixed. I make these backups immediately after repairing the damage to the taskbar which Start11 seems to want to keep causing. So that, when I restore a backup, things should be fixed. And yet they are not. What should I do? What am I doing wrong? This has been going o

Reply to Wrong icons on Start11 taskbar in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

1. Windows 11 24H2 (OS Build 26100.3194) 2. Start11v2 version 2.5 3. taskbar location: bottom 4. Enhanced taskbar: no 5. Taskbar autohide: on 6. Combine mode: on 7. start11 - wrong icon example It appears that the problem is limited to Windows built-in programs ... or seems to be anyhow. Please let me know what other information I

Reply to Wrong icons on Start11 taskbar in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Thanks, that is a reasonable approach, And I will try it. I'm a little leery though because in the past when Start11 started mismatching icons and apps on the taskbar, and I restored a backup to fix it, the fix was only temporary. Nevertheless, I will try your approach and I really appreciate you reaching out.

Wrong icons on Start11 taskbar in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

So, it happens on certain apps more than others, but one ends up with a generic Windows icon in the Start11 taskbar for various apps, rather than the one intended by the app's creator. (I'd like to say they are all Microsoft apps but cannot swear to it.) As mentioned in my subtitle above, this problem still occurs with the latest version of Start11 installed, and having restored a correct Start11 configuration backup (everything looked right when the backup was made). I wonder if there is a f

Reply to Unable to remove NordVPN from taskbar due to no "unpin from taskbar" in context menu in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

THanks very much for this. I know it will come in handy!

Reply to Unable to remove NordVPN from taskbar due to no "unpin from taskbar" in context menu in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

I will get back to you after I've done this and see how it works. Thank you for all the information!

Reply to Unable to remove NordVPN from taskbar due to no "unpin from taskbar" in context menu in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

I note that there is a deactivate license option for stardock. Should I deactivate before uninstalling as you instructed?

Reply to Unable to remove NordVPN from taskbar due to no "unpin from taskbar" in context menu in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Thanks for your reply. Here are specific answers to the questions you pose: It happens quite frequently that the task bar becomes corrupted and I have to restore it from backup or else rebuild it by hand when backup fails to fix it. I would say it happens on average a couple times a week, thought I make pretty extensive use of my laptop daily. There is no sp

Reply to Unable to remove NordVPN from taskbar due to no "unpin from taskbar" in context menu in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

I'm not sure I recall. It was either pinning it from the taskbar itself while the NordVPN user interface was running or else from the start menu by typing in "nordvpn", hitting right click and then selecting "pin to start menu (Start 11)". Something weird just happened. I got rid of the NordVPN item on the taskbar. I think it happened after I tried to restore from an earlier backup, which did nothing. I did this because I keep having a recurring problem with a couple other icons point

Reply to Unable to remove NordVPN from taskbar due to no "unpin from taskbar" in context menu in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

I'm not sure I recall. It was either pinning it from the taskbar itself while the NordVPN user interface was running or else from the start menu by typing in "nordvpn", hitting right click and then selecting "pin to start menu (Start 11)". It occurs to me that I have not mentioned what is different about the NordVPN icon on the taskbar.

Reply to Unable to remove NordVPN from taskbar due to no "unpin from taskbar" in context menu in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Thanks for your note and I'm sorry I didn't supply this information to begin with. I am running: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, build 22631.4602 Start 11, version 2.11

Unable to remove NordVPN from taskbar due to no "unpin from taskbar" in context menu in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

As my title says, I am unable to remove NordVPN from my Start11 taskbar due to no "unpin from taskbar" item in context menu which appears from right click over NordVPN icon in the taskbar. What does appear is a number of VPN server options. NordVPN has somehow taken over the taskbar context menu for its icon and left out some basics. I even tried restoring a Start11 backup, but even this left the NordVPN icon in place. I suppose I can remedy this easily enough by fiddling inside

Reply to Start11 taskbar app entries messed up in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

I will do so. Thank you for your prompt reply. Also thank you for your suggestion about the backup/restore feature. I think that is a reasonable approach. Again, thank you for your reply!

Reply to Start11 taskbar app entries messed up in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Not to my knowledge. I'm not even sure how to enable it. I was unaware of any such feature. I'll give it a look though. Thanks!

Start11 taskbar app entries messed up in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

I am finding, repeatedly, that Start11 is causing the apps I have specified there to be incorrect. This was NOT happening before I installed Start11 about six weeks ago. Typically, I will see what looks like a duplicated app. But when I click the app icon, there is no telling which app will get started -- though it will be one of the apps which I originally pinned to the taskbar. Sometimes, instead of what looks like a duplicated app, it will simply show up as no app. Other than that,

Reply to Customizing contents of "All Programs" in ThinkDesk Stardock Forums

This is extremely helpful, thank you very much!

Customizing contents of "All Programs" in ThinkDesk Stardock Forums

QUESTION IN BRIEF: Can anybody tell me where Start11 stores the contents of what it is displaying under "All Programs" when using the "Modern style" start menu? It's not where Windows traditionally stores what it used to display when one clicked the "Start" icon. QUESTION WITH DETAILS: I'm a brand-new user though a senior software developer of many decades and therefore not an idiot. Nevertheless, I have an initial question: I see that "All Programs" contains (among othe