StartAllBack for Windows 11

[Sieben]

Version 3.8.11 added the Win+Alt+T hotkey to toggle taskbar auto-hide,
which conflicts with the Win+Alt+T hotkey used by Snipping Tool for copying text from images.

[Tihiy]

On 10/1/2025 at 5:44 AM, Sieben said:

Version 3.8.11 added the Win+Alt+T hotkey to toggle taskbar auto-hide,
which conflicts with the Win+Alt+T hotkey used by Snipping Tool for copying text from images.

Since when? I believe it's Win+Shift+T

[Smonkey]

On 10/1/2025 at 4:44 AM, Sieben said:

Version 3.8.11 added the Win+Alt+T hotkey to toggle taskbar auto-hide,
which conflicts with the Win+Alt+T hotkey used by Snipping Tool for copying text from images.

Dude you can change the shortcuts hotkey easily in PowerTools. Writing this here is extremely lazy.  At least take a look on YouTube. Bare minimum. + Yeah it's default is "Win+Shift+T".

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Edited October 3 by Smonkey

[andyfeifei]

Hello, author. I can't help coming to you again because I'm still using the latest version of Windows (preview version), but I can't do without StartAllBack. I hope the experts can fix some minor features, such as Windows +R and so on. Also, right-clicking on the Task Manager doesn't respond (actually, all right-click menus don't respond). I'm currently using: Windows Server 2025 Datacenter 26491.1000. I still hope the author can fix it. Thank you very much

[Tihiy]

StartAllBack 3.9.16

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Changes for 25H2 slop

- Don't load WinUI3 to reduce desktop resource usage

- Fixed searchbox picture not appearing/searchbox misplaced a bit

- Fixed crash with new context menus but old frame style

- Fixed taskbar autohide broken on some systems

- Fixed settings search/menu empty

 

[Friction]

On 9/25/2025 at 10:21 PM, Friction said:

I have found a bug if it hasn't been reported on.
When applying the Win10 Ribbon UI for the Explorer style and having Classic context menus switched off, Explorer keeps crashing randomly. When the Classic context menus is switched on, Explorer doesn't crash.
Using v3.9.15 on Windows 11 Pro 25H2, but it was crashing on 24H2 also.

OK. I just installed 3.9.16 and I no longer experience crashing with the Classic context menus switched off. But Explorer takes forever to load with the Classic context menu switched off.

[Sieben]

On 10/3/2025 at 8:09 AM, Tihiy said:

Since when? I believe it's Win+Shift+T

Sorry, I mistyped — it’s Win+Shift+T.
I’m on version 25H2, and my Snipping Tool version is 11.2507.15.0.

[Uiti P. Uszer]

On 10/5/2025 at 7:36 AM, Tihiy said:

StartAllBack 3.9.16

Were you able to address the issue of the Menu bar in File Explorer not continuing to display even if the check is marked for it to display? To display the Menu Bar in File Explorer, each time you open it, you have to uncheck to display the Menu Bar, then recheck it to display it. But the next time you open File Explorer the Menu Bar doesn't display even though it is check marked to display.

Edited Monday at 05:03 PM by Uiti P. Uszer

[Tihiy]

I can't reproduce that or explorer position not saving. It's clearly dependant on one of the myriad A/B feature switches, maybe vivetool output showing enabled features would help

[Uiti P. Uszer]

7 minutes ago, Tihiy said:

I can't reproduce that

I have at least 2 PCs of Ryzen 5000 generation, that do it. That are running 24H2 11 IoT/LTSC.

Edited Monday at 05:36 PM by Uiti P. Uszer

[Tihiy]

And I have at least 2 that do not; that's not helpful.

[SeaDog]

On 9/28/2025 at 5:08 PM, SeaDog said:

Speaking of Win10 Ribbon UI, File Explorer doesn't save its window size and position with Win10 Ribbon UI. No problems with Win11 Command Bar. As a workaround I have to resize and position the File Explorer window with Win11 Command Bar and then apply Win10 Ribbon UI.

Win11 24H2 26100.6584, StartAllBack v3.9.15

Hi Tihiy! Thanks for looking into this!

This time I decided to dig a little deeper.
I applied "Win10 Ribbon UI" Explorer style and deleted
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders
Of course the File Explorer window reverted to its default size and position. I moved, resized, opened, closed and Shift+closed the window several times. It didn't save its new size and position.
I looked into the registry and noticed that
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders
was not recreated.

Then I applied "Win11 Command Bar" Explorer style and moved and resized the File Explorer window. It saved its new size and position without any problems.
I looked into the registry again and noticed that
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders
was successfully recreated along with the Shell subkey and all values.

I'm not sure what to think about this. Is it a question of specific permissions? I've installed StartAllBack in "C:\Program Files\StartAllBack" and I'm running Windows as an admin (if that matters).

[Smonkey]

Hello. Anyone experiencing the not being able to change styles/start menu issue after 25H2? I deleted multiple times with regs but I can't able to fix it. Sorry If this is known. I use the Windows Store Installation 

Edit: use 3.9.16 . Win Store version is 3.9.9 .
 

Edited 7 hours ago by Smonkey

[duk6046]

There is tray icon not response issue from v3.9.15 on 24H2 beta (build 26120.6772), restarting explorer.exe temporarily resolves, it's the same if shut down the hooking apps. v3.9.14 is work fine.

Edited 4 hours ago by duk6046

[Faguss]

Hi. I just got StartAllBack. Now I can set my desktop to be just the way I want it. Thanks for making it!

I have a feature request: could you add separate flyouts for audio and date? I'd like to have W10 audio devices (because I can quickly switch between headphones and speakers) and W7 date and time (because analog clock is more convenient for time calculation).

Other than that it would be nice to have tooltips/screenshots for options such as "Display modern apps in a folder", "Mica effect on top", "Classic drive grouping", "Classic context menus", "Restore control panel applets", "Colorize everything with accent color", "Numer of jumplist items to display" because I'm not sure what do they do. Also I don't see anything happening when I switch Custom Coloring from Clear to Blur/Acrylic and then move the sliders.