StartAllBack for Windows 11

[Homes32]

On 12/3/2025 at 6:42 AM, lutin593 said:

This is a terrific software 👍
I'm having an issue running windows 11 25H2 - 26220.7271
Using explorer windows 10 style 
Each time I'm launching a new explorer windows i'm missing elements
Then I go to taskbar manager ctrl+shift+esc and it comes back to normal
Any fix?

 

Somewhat similar issue in WinPE with Proper 11 theme. an extra address/nav bar is added to the window with non-functional controls.

Win10 ribbon theme works fine.

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[Homes32]

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Edited January 8 by Homes32
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[Case]

There's another strange issue I have run into with StartAllBack. With many programs that have a menu bar below the titlebar, if you click an empty portion of that menu the titlebar stops reacting until focus is manually changed somewhere else, like you click on an actual menu item or click somewhere outside the program window. Happens for example in Notepad++, Everything (from Voidtools), partially in Sysinternals Process Explorer. Process Explorer is special, it still shows the hover effects, though with a lag, but the buttons don't react.

[Tihiy]

Uhm, that's nonsense.

[Case]

Do you have tips how to troubleshoot potential other cause then? Note that the issue doesn't trigger immediately. I keep my machine always on and at some point a misclick lets me see that the glitch is back.

At the moment I can't unfortunately do any debugging about it as I just logged out and back in and that seems to clear the issue, at least temporarily. But I had StartAllBack disabled for the last two weeks as a test and during that time I didn't see this glitch at all. But the native taskbar is intolerable.

[fzzl]

Ahoy, I've had two minor issues for a few versions now, I believe since the 25H2 shenannigans.

the first issue is:
the restart button no longer seems to do anything. i have it set as the default button in the start menu.



the second issue is:
when set to the classic task bar, and turning on auto-hide in the windows taskbar settings, there's a weird issue where the icons flash up mid screen when unhiding the bar, rather than uh, being constrained to the bar.

I can get video of that if you like, but i'm hoping it's simple to reproduce.

thank you

[floki123]

If you add 20+ applications to the Start Menu, it will fill the entire screen. Why isn't there a scroll bar like there is in All Programs? Icon count does not work with this. Resizing works well only with All Programs, but does not respond well in the Start Menu, adding an extra space for the next program added. Will it be possible to add folders to the Start Menu? Currently, only exe files can be added.

[Jd5555555]

How do you add the Everything Toolbar to StartAllBack? I used to have it loaded but needed to reload everything, and now I can not figure out how to load it as a toolbar.

Thanks

[lubierzca]

On 1/14/2026 at 2:46 PM, floki123 said:

Will it be possible to add folders to the Start Menu?

I don't think it'll be, but why not just add folders to the items on the right side?

[floki123]

1 hour ago, lubierzca said:

I don't think it'll be, but why not just add folders to the items on the right side?

I do that, it's just a suggestion.

[SkyySX]

I have a weird problem, I'm not using "All Programs" all that often so I don't know how long it's going on already but I noticed I can't click it anymore in the Classic Win7 Startmenu. Even if I change it back to XP-style flyouts hovering over it has no reaction. It happens on every skin so it's not a skin problem. I'M on SaB 3.9.20 and Windows 11 25H2 26200.7623.

[Tihiy]

You have disable all programs registry policy, probably set by ExplorerPatcher

Edited Thursday at 02:30 PM by Tihiy

[SkyySX]

That was it, thank you and sorry to be a bother! I switched back to the Win7 Start Menu from the Win10 Start Menu but forgot to undo some changes it seems.

[Case]

On 1/12/2026 at 4:01 PM, Tihiy said:

Uhm, that's nonsense.

I have been running with StartAllBack disabled for the last week or so and today the bug reappeared despite that. So you are right. It happens even though Process Explorer shows that the process has nothing but Microsoft's dlls loaded. Sorry for falsely blaming you.

[Ionut Bara]

On 1/6/2026 at 4:51 PM, Ionut Bara said:

i have a problem with StartAllBack, version 3.9.20 build 5345 with Windows 11 build 28000.1340 (also applies for all 28000 with all minor version)
 

- i have multiple apps with multiple windows open.

- when i do click (right of left) on desktop or an  desktop icon or a space from desktop, all windows will be minimized.

- i've verified if another apps can be the culprit, so i found the StartAllBack is the problem.
- the bug is happening with dark magic enabled and dark magic disabled.

- restarting explorer it fixes the issue for current sesion. rebooting it restores the bug.

fixed in build 5350. thx @Tihiy!