Microsoft Windows® 8 is shipped without the “Start” menu. Stardock heard the cries from Windows 8 users and Start8 brings back the Start menu to Windows 8, 10, & 11. It’s the most used desktop feature billions of users depend on every day and packed it with additional functionality. Start8, Star10, & Star11 includes support for “jump lists”/recent documents for recently accessed programs (Devices, Documents, Music, Videos, Photos, Computer, and more). Pin favorite desktop and Metro apps shortcuts directly to the start menu for easy access. Stardock Start8,Start10, & Start11 adds searchable Windows 8-style (Modern UI) Start menu options for Windows desktop applications, Modern applications, and documents. It allows automatically load directly to your Windows desktop on login (vs the start screen).
Features Star11 :
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
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
Download Stardock Start11 | versi 2.5.5.4| 50 MB |
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Features Star10 :
• Search menu is back in the Start menu
• Restores the quick links to core system functionality
• Maintains the "All Programs" folder metaphor
• Texture can be applied to Start10 background and taskbar
System Requirements :
Windows 10
New's in Stardock Start10 ~ 1.98 :
• Resolves texture background on taskbar not applying under the weather control in newer versions of WIn10
• Resolves a small resource leak
• Misc bugfixes
Download Stardock Start10 | versi 1.98 | 34,24 MB |
Features Star8 :
• Add the Windows 8 menu to the Start menu.
• Windows 7-styled Start menu enhanced for Windows 8
• Pin Modern applications to the Windows 8 Start menu
• Boot directly to the Windows 8 desktop
System Requirements :
Windows 8/8.1 or Windows Server 2012/2012R2
New's in Stardock Start8 ~ 1.56 :
• Minor updates and fixes
Download Stardock Start8 | versi 1.56 | 10,42 MB |
