Tihiy

You don't say anything about crash . If app hangs it's because SHAppBarMessage waits for taskbar to reply; you need to capture explorer.exe dump in that exact moment: task manager - details - (heaviest) explorer.exe - Create memory dump file

Most likely hang is in SHAppBarMessage call, so take explorer.exe process dump to analyze

Well you better tell what needs to be done to trigger hung or find where hung is - capture dump or find in debugger directly attached to problematic process

You use compact mode and modified msstyles?

Unlock the taskbar

This is not a bug, but an improvement to indicate disabled window. There is/will be a setting to disable shading for confused ones [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\StartIsBack\DarkMagic] FadeDisabled = (DWORD)0 There are acrylic effects alright, but it's not supposed to be pure black, maybe extra tweaks on your system.

That's expected behavior

I need log from @tixemog149

Please download test version, run DebugView https://startisback.com/StartAllBack_setup.exe and attach debug log created during install / explorer restart here please

Is it a degradation? Try 3.9.11 https://startisback.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/StartAllBack_3.9.11_setup.exe

Sure if I could reproduce that

Try deleting %localappdata%\StartAllBack\Cache

I don't have a keyboard with this key, but Win+Shift+F23 copilot hotkey works for me.

It sure could, it's not that hard. It is a choice to make experience with toolbars worse.

Toolbars must die, sorry.

Yeah, it likely does due to weird build versioning. It may be addressed by MS in future build; I'm not going to support server canary builds ever.

The tools are on Advanced page. If they don't help, you'll be stuck with this atrocity for a while.

Website hosting is under DDoS attack. Unfortunately my hands are tied

There are hundreds of thousands of such machines. No real support requests about exactly this.

Hello old friend, I'm afraid you're the rare one theming so hard. Would you share msstyles?

There are some isolated cases but no proof StartAllBack is responsible. Does disabling StartAllBack help? I can help with remote assistance, write to startisback@gmail.com

Workaround is Win+B/lock taskbar

StartAllBack 3.9.8

It seems this behavior is fixed in latest Beta builds.

As a workaround for now, you can terminate dwm.exe