StartAllBack for Windows 11

[Zubastic]

Hello, I having issue with groupping settings. Before update 24H2 it respected pinned icons: if I had explorer icon and launched app - pinned icon dissapeared. Now I have 2 icons: one as pinned and one as launched. It is bug or feature? Is it possible to fix (to return beheavor as before update?).

[Tihiy]

Well you need to unpin and pin explorer or change combining setting

[Zubastic]

40 minutes ago, Tihiy said:

Well you need to unpin and pin explorer or change combining setting

After pinning separate icon appeared again:

Before: 

After: 

Unpinning and pinning again did same behavior.

At settings set "never group", so explorer icon only showed when no any folders were opened.

[Tihiy]

Never group means never group nothing at all. You need to set 'Never'

Edited March 19 by Tihiy

[Zubastic]

1 minute ago, Tihiy said:

Never group means never group nothing at all. You need to set 'Never'

With that setting all explorer windows would be at same place and I couldn't move them separatly. Group never solve that problem, but additional icon appears

[Tihiy]

That's the intended behavior.

[dacrone]

2 hours ago, Tihiy said:

Never group means never group nothing at all. You need to set 'Never'

whatever directory is opening with its own taskbar icon/space is opening in a new service. thats why its doing that.

[Tihiy]

On 3/8/2025 at 12:02 PM, pacificblue said:

Is there a way to make the Start menu open where my mouse pointer is? I have two monitors, but it always opens on the primary one. Thanks!

This should be possible with 3.9.6 with StartMenuMonitor=2 registry setting

[Zubastic]

13 hours ago, Tihiy said:

That's the intended behavior.

Is it possible to hide button at newer version?

[Overview7696]

When I use the Win+D shortcut to show my desktop, the taskbar randomly goes turns into a broken transparent taskbar. Has anyone else had this issue?

https://i.imgur.com/9zZPqmJ.png

[Andriy]

Issue report - Incorrect preview of combined windows when changing screen scaling
I use taskbar vertically aligned on the right side. When Settings > System > Display > Scale changes because of connecting to external monitor, the combined taskbar buttons preview does not properly show the open windows - see attached examples. There is a number of open Internet Explorer windows, but they don't fit all on the screen in preview.  

To reproduce the issue
1) Set screen scaling to eg 125%
2) Open many windows, so that they start getting combined on the task bar
3) Change screen scaling to eg 150 or 100%, but so that the windows are still combined
4) Try to preview the windows combined under one tasbar button

Very often you'll get incomplete view like in the images attached. 
 

[S7rUww3lP373R]

Hi everyone.

I've a question for the developer:

Is it possible to increase the area where the window can be dragged with the mouse?

As you can see in the screenshot, I am using the Windows 7 style Explorer with compact view (but the problem is also present in the non-compact setting).
The problem that annoys me - because I often misclick here -  is that there is an area above the address bar where the window can't be dragged with the mouse. (I marked this area with the yellow bar, the area above the red lines can be dragged.)

So, it it possible for startallback to fix that?

[dacrone]

On 3/20/2025 at 1:37 PM, S7rUww3lP373R said:

Hi everyone.

I've a question for the developer:

Is it possible to increase the area where the window can be dragged with the mouse?

As you can see in the screenshot, I am using the Windows 7 style Explorer with compact view (but the problem is also present in the non-compact setting).
The problem that annoys me - because I often misclick here -  is that there is an area above the address bar where the window can't be dragged with the mouse. (I marked this area with the yellow bar, the area above the red lines can be dragged.)

So, it it possible for startallback to fix that?

Registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
REG_SZ = "CaptionHeight"

Value formula =
-15*desired height in pixels
(so for 15 pixel height of titlebar, value would = -225)

[sausje]

Hey,

I don't know if this is something you could implement, but can SAB manage visibility of taskbar per monitor?
I'm now using a 3rd monitor and would love to be able to disable the taskbar on that one alone while keeping main and second active. Sadly Windows only allows either all monitors or just the main..

Thanks in advance!

[SleepyCatten]

Hi there. Just upgraded from StartIsBack to StartAllBack after migrating from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 11 Pro.

I've noticed that the "middle click to close" functionality (i.e., clicking the mouse wheel to close a window on the taskbar) only works if I select "Never group" under "Combine taskbar buttons". However, if I enable "Never group", new application windows for applications pinned to the taskbar don't open over the pinned application icons. As such, this isn't an ideal workaround, as it means I have to stop using pinned applications.

Could I please kindly ask for the "middle click to close" option be added under the "Never" option under "Combine taskbar buttons"? If that's not possible, may I please kindly ask instead for support to be given to pinned applications under the "Never group" option?