StartAllBack for Windows 11

[User77111]

Bug: Metro apps do not show up on the recently opened programs list on the start menu. 

Using windows 11 25H2

Edited October 18 by User77111

[ender`]

I installed the October 2025 update yesterday, and StartAllBack now has a weird problem – taskbar on secondary monitors isn't hiding, and it's also transparent:

If I disable and reenable auto-hiding, the problem goes away until my monitors go to sleep (which causes the primary monitor to disconnect), then the problem reappears.

Windows 11 25H2, 26200.6899

[Uiti P. Uszer]

5 hours ago, User77111 said:

Bug: Metro apps do not show up on the recently opened programs list on the start menu. 

UWP Metro cr-apps are a bastardization of computing, so that's a feature, not a bug.

[lubierzca]

On 10/18/2025 at 11:27 AM, User77111 said:

Bug: Metro apps do not show up on the recently opened programs list on the start menu. 

Using windows 11 25H2

They never will, because legacy start menus were not designed with Metro apps in mind, because they were not existing back then. Windows 8 was the first one to support that afaik, and SAB does not use it as its base for the SAB Start Menu if I'm not mistaken.

Edited Wednesday at 07:39 AM by lubierzca

[ender`]

On 10/18/2025 at 11:32 AM, ender` said:

I installed the October 2025 update yesterday, and StartAllBack now has a weird problem – taskbar on secondary monitors isn't hiding, and it's also transparent:

If I disable and reenable auto-hiding, the problem goes away until my monitors go to sleep (which causes the primary monitor to disconnect), then the problem reappears.

Windows 11 25H2, 26200.6899

I have this problem on both of my computers now. Might be related either to high contrast or high-DPI mode (or both, both machines are set up very similarly, with 3 displays, centre being primary).

[fr0stycam]

On 10/18/2025 at 4:32 AM, ender` said:

I installed the October 2025 update yesterday, and StartAllBack now has a weird problem – taskbar on secondary monitors isn't hiding, and it's also transparent:

If I disable and reenable auto-hiding, the problem goes away until my monitors go to sleep (which causes the primary monitor to disconnect), then the problem reappears.

Windows 11 25H2, 26200.6899

Also having this on both home and work machines with KB5065789 installed, the supposed fix in 3.5.16 seems to have only partially addressed it; the partial fix stopped it from happening permanently no matter how many monitors you had plugged in, but my 2nd/non-primary monitor always has the transparent taskbar until I hide then rehide again. Would love to provide any logs/dumps or test fixes if possible!

[Uiti P. Uszer]

1 hour ago, fr0stycam said:

until I hide then rehide again

Yes, I had to figure this out on my PC recently also, as a taskbar on one of my monitors stopped hiding. Are you by chance also running DisplayFusion, like I am ?

Edited Thursday at 12:17 AM by Uiti P. Uszer

[ender`]

On 10/23/2025 at 2:16 AM, Uiti P. Uszer said:

Yes, I had to figure this out on my PC recently also, as a taskbar on one of my monitors stopped hiding. Are you by chance also running DisplayFusion, like I am ?

I am.

[Onilink]

On 10/22/2025 at 5:29 PM, fr0stycam said:

Also having this on both home and work machines with KB5065789 installed, the supposed fix in 3.5.16 seems to have only partially addressed it; the partial fix stopped it from happening permanently no matter how many monitors you had plugged in, but my 2nd/non-primary monitor always has the transparent taskbar until I hide then rehide again. Would love to provide any logs/dumps or test fixes if possible!

This happens with KB5066835 I already tested it by installing and uninstalling with the taskbar fixing itself once it is uninstalled. I personally just kept it uninstalled for now because the update has a major issue with not being able to use USB Keyboard and mouse if your PC ends up having errors and needing to go into bios.

On 10/22/2025 at 7:16 PM, Uiti P. Uszer said:

Yes, I had to figure this out on my PC recently also, as a taskbar on one of my monitors stopped hiding. Are you by chance also running DisplayFusion, like I am ?

The issue comes back regardless if your monitor goes to sleep. I do not have displayfusion and the autohide fix stopped working with random full screen usage. For now I have uninstalled the windows update KB5066835 until Microsoft fixes the major USB mouse/keyboard issue and when SAB is fixed with the update itself.

[Uiti P. Uszer]

21 hours ago, ender` said:

I am.

I figured out to restart DisplayFusion when that happens.

[fr0stycam]

On 10/22/2025 at 7:16 PM, Uiti P. Uszer said:

Yes, I had to figure this out on my PC recently also, as a taskbar on one of my monitors stopped hiding. Are you by chance also running DisplayFusion, like I am ?

I personally am not and it still happens every reboot, so not sure if DisplayFusion exacerbates the issue further (though I'm gonna hazard a guess and say it doesn't, SAB just doesn't like whatever changed in the cumulative update)

[ender`]

2 hours ago, Uiti P. Uszer said:

I figured out to restart DisplayFusion when that happens.

Restarting DisplayFusion doesn't help here (and take longer than disabling and reenabling autohide).