StartAllBack for Windows 11

[ender`]

Problems I noticed with 3.7 beta:

- when taskbar is set to auto-hide, clicking the clock hides the taskbar before the flyout is displayed

- taskbars on secondary displays are missing the border above Start Menu and notification area in high contrast mode:

- installing 3.7 beta in remote desktop session reset my window metrics and high contrast colour settings

[adacom]

so 3.7 kills TClock - not sure what the plusses are in it but its not an upgrade i will be using - pity

[Tihiy]

1 hour ago, adacom said:

so 3.7 kills TClock - not sure what the plusses are in it but its not an upgrade i will be using - pity

Which TClock functions are critical for you?

[adacom]

24 minutes ago, Tihiy said:

Which TClock functions are critical for you?

just the display - what microsoft give us is rubbish imo this is what i set it to - i have had it like this for years and its an old friend - having the day - date and time available in the toolbar/taskbar is very useful in a clear readable font

[ender`]

More 3.7 problems: when I connect to my computer through Remote Desktop, or when I log in locally after I was connected with Remote Destkop, Explorer is now frozen; if I press the Windows key on the keyboard, Explorer restarts and resets my Windows theme (I'm using high contrast with custom colours). There was a similar problem with StartIsBack and older versions of StartAllBack, but Explorer usually only stayed frozen for a few seconds to about a minute (and it only happened when I connected with RDP, not when I logged in locally afterwards); with 3.7 Explorer seems to stay frozen forever (at least I left it in this state for about half hour yesterday, and it never recovered), and it seems to happen every time now (previously it only happened rarely).

[Tihiy]

Unfortunately, I can't make sense of / reproduce RDP issues. It would help if you capture hang explorer.exe dump

[ender`]

Will using Process Explorer for creating the dump (right-click on Explorer→Create dump) do? Is minidump sufficient, or should I do a full dump?

The issue might be related to DPI changes (I run 225% at home [two 27″ 5k monitors], while when I connect remotely, I do so from regular-DPI screens, or from my workplace where monitors are set to 168% [though I think on RDP this changes to 175%]), and always with a single screen only.  High Contrast and custom window metrics (I dislike thick window borders) might be a factor, too.

And I forgot to mention, this is on 23H2, 22631.2428.

[Tihiy]

Minidump is ok

[Tihiy]

No need, managed to reproduce 

[ender`]

Good, because naturally this time when I got home, the problem did not manifest. OTOH, a different problem appeared: the QuickLaunch toolbar icons stayed small: 

[JakubDriver]

On 7/29/2023 at 4:09 PM, JakubDriver said:

Hi

I have a question (suggestions) currently SAB Win 11 after clicking in the tray for an hour whether the same notification is sent. Isn't it better to restore the clock and calendar from win 7 if you click on the time in the tray

 

Tihiy It's nice that you took my suggestion into account

[Ten2O]

How do I disable startallback replacing taskbar tray icons?

Edited November 11, 2023 by Ten2O

[JakubDriver]

13 hours ago, Ten2O said:

How do I disable startallback replacing taskbar tray icons?

What icons do you have in mind?

[Ten2O]

I have icon pack that replaces all icons in Windows 11 with the Windows 7 icons. Startallback force replaces the tray icons (volume, internet, remove devices, bluetooth) with the Windows 11 variant no matter what style is selected.

[mackid1993]

13 minutes ago, Ten2O said:

I have icon pack that replaces all icons in Windows 11 with the Windows 7 icons. Startallback force replaces the tray icons (volume, internet, remove devices, bluetooth) with the Windows 11 variant no matter what style is selected.

If you're using 3.7 beta I believe the new systray doesn't support msstyles.