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Correct.
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Standard taskbar on secondary monitor is enabled. Switching off 'Enable all edges on secondary monitors' makes Start Menu work on secondary monitor (though I'm undecided if I like it opening there). I'm not running any shell enhancement software.
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BTW, my secondary monitor doesn't open Start Menu bug seems 100% reproducible - today I again can't open the menu with keyboard if window on secondary monitor has focus.
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Windows 8.1 x64 RTM (original install was English [upgrade from 8], with Slovenian language pack added, UI set to Slovenian). At the moment, if the active window is mostly on my secondary monitor, pressing the Windows key on keyboard doesn't open Start Menu (the key is still registered in programs that hook it, but even if I open eg. Notepad, drag it to the second screen and press the Windows key on keyboard, nothing happens; Ctrl+Windows does open Start Screen). I'm not sure if this'll still happen if I reboot/restart Explorer - if there's anything you want me to try, I can do so before I power off for the night in about 2 hours. While testing this, I also noticed another problem: sometimes when I open Start Menu and then close it (with keyboard), the active window will change (as if I pressed Alt+Tab).
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Another problem I noticed: often when focus is on my second monitor, Windows key (on keyboard) doesn't do anything when I press it (Ctr+Win still opens Start Screen though).
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Two more problems I noticed (Win8 x64 RTM): - twice so far Start menu wouldn't respond to down arrow keys when I opened it - yesterday Start menu just disappeared, and the regular Start button (which opened Start screen) was back - had to restart Explorer to get StartIsBack+ back
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Same problem happened here until I actually set an account picture.
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I noticed one problem with StartIsBack+: sometimes when I open Start Menu and press down arrow, the first item in right column gets highlighted instead of the first item in left column. I'm not sure how to reproduce this reliably - it seems to happen every now and then (just enough that I can't rely on muscle memory to press Win, Down, Enter to open the top pinned item).
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Why waste resources on a more than a decade old OS that has less than a year of support left?
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OK, here goes:divider lines are hard to see in my colour scheme (though they look fine in other high-contrast themes), also the vertical divider line seems to be missing completely (it was there in the regular version) submenus (eg. Shutdown, Control Panel) use wrong highlight style (it looks like highlight Windows 7 and older used, instead of what Windows 8 uses); for me this isn't a problem (I actually prefer this style, even though it differs from regular menus), but it might bother somebody else using high contrast themes (in High Contrast Black, the text is black and background dark magenta, which makes selected items hard to read) In Windows 7, All Programs used the window background colour, not menu/button background. I preferred this (and I'd actually prefer if the background on the left always used this colour), but since Windows 8 uses the button background in many places where window background was used on older Windows versions, I'm unsure if doing that would be the right thing to do Would it be possible to use the user picture frame from the selected StartIsBack theme even in high-contrast mode? Oh, and this isn't high-contrast related - the text you type in the search box always looks dimmed (I reported this problem before) - it should use the regular text colour (this is visible both in normal theme, and in high-contrast ones).
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I now tried this build with my own colour scheme, and it appears that StartIsBack doesn't use the correct background colour - compare the "old" StartIsBack (left) and the test build (right): Oh, and the Run command sometimes shows up in the menu, even though it's not enabled.
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I tried to post on that forum several times, but the reply never seems to stick. Two problems I noticed: - in high contrast mode, Start menu opens under the taskbar, so the search field and shutdown button aren‘t visible (they're covered by the taskbar) - clicking the Start button doesn’t close Start menu when it's already open
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All buttons with Microsoft's trademarks will be removed - that includes both orbs, and the white flag.
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Maybe you could do it exactly like in XP - icons that are in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu first (assuming there are any), followed by folders then icons from Programs? (not that I care - I got too used to the Vista/7 style to go back to XP.
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Well, in XP icons would be sorted both before and after folders; specifically, icons that classic Start Menu placed at the top of Start menu (not in Programs) were displayed first, followed by Programs content after a separator.
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The way this is implemented is insecure - the CC entry form opens in an overlay of an insecure site.
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We already did that at work - first with 10 licenses, then when these ran out, with 40 more.
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Windows 8 renamed some of the options - eg. it's now Sign out instead of Log off, and at least in Slovenian, the translation changed accordingly. You can see that these things changed in the classic shutdown dialog - click an empty part of the desktop or taskbar and press Alt+F4, then check the drop-down entries.
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This flashes on my secondary monitor for some reason.Also, at least in RC1, the highlight colour was still orange, even in high contrast theme.
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I noticed a small cosmetic problem while translating: on the Advanced page, the "px" label is covered by the scrollbar (at least in 120DPI mode). Also, the section labels (eg. "Configure Start menu items and behavior") are always dark blue, even in high contrast themes (makes them hard to see with black background). Two more translation-related questions: - is it possible to translate the control panel icon name? - previous translation versions had some strings for the DLL, but these are missing in the most recent RU-RU.txt example file - are they not supported anymore?
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I took the colour from the charms bar (though that one does have black background, regardless of theme). Still, I think it looks fine with most themes.
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There's a weird problem with themes in high contrast mode: if "Disable Start Menu transparency" is enabled, Start Menu goes fully transparent in the non-default themes. Also, could you include my orb images in the installer, too?
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Here's a comparision between StartIsBack 2.0 preview and Windows 7: Notice how StartIsBack's search text colour is lighter. This is even more noticeable in my high contrast mode (though the colour was originally pointed out to me by somebody else).
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BTW, when you type in the Search box, the text has wrong colour.
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It's probably some random signature that matches - I've had several AV programs flag a certain GIMP plugin as malware for a while.
