Start11 RC2 Adds Full Screen Option, Fixes

Stardock today announced the release of Start11 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), which adds a full-screen option and numerous fixes.

“With Release Candidate 2, the full-screen menu feature makes it easier to use Windows 10 or 11 on a tablet,” a Stardock forum post explains. “When paired with the new option to adjust icon sizes for Windows 10 and 11 style menus, Start11 significantly improves the tablet experience.”

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New features include a full-screen menu option for Windows 10/11 menu styles, option to hide the “recently installed” (Windows 10/11 style) and the “recent document” (Windows 11 style) lists, enhanced support for wider tile groups in the Windows 10 style menu, the ability to change the background color of individual Windows 10 menu items, options to adjust icon sizing for Windows 10/11 style menus, and 240 Hz support for animations.

There are also many, many fixes that should clear up some of the instabilities in RC1.

You can learn more—and make the $4.99 purchase—at the Stardock website.

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  • martinusv2

    Premium Member
    14 October, 2021 - 1:06 pm

    <p>Stardock, a company that can do things that Microsoft can’t or don’t want to do :)</p>

  • navarac

    14 October, 2021 - 1:59 pm

    <p>Start# is the best software purchase of all time. I’d gladly pay more.</p>

  • harmjr

    Premium Member
    14 October, 2021 - 3:05 pm

    <p>So Start 11 is to Windows as Microsoft Launcher is to Android. </p>

    • randyaccv

      14 October, 2021 - 3:20 pm

      <p>How ironic. Microsoft can improve the Android start menu, but totally mess up their own Windows Start Menu</p>

      • hrlngrv

        Premium Member
        15 October, 2021 - 8:09 pm

        <p>Pure human nature of a sort: anyone else’s ideas can be immeasurably improved with a little addition from <em>me</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Another way of looking at this is that MSFT is culturally incapable of finish work. When anything MSFT reaches what house remodeling contractors would call <em>substantial completion</em>, all the top developers <em>and managers</em> move on to new &amp; interesting things, and actual completion is left to the riff raff.</p>

  • randyaccv

    14 October, 2021 - 3:19 pm

    <p>Start 11 doesn’t allow you to scroll all apps using the 2 finger touch pad, you have to use the scroll bar. Very annoying.</p>

    • jgraebner

      Premium Member
      14 October, 2021 - 6:56 pm

      <p>This new version today fixed that for me. </p>

    • Brad Sams

      Premium Member
      15 October, 2021 - 8:05 am

      <p>There’s a specific scenario where a two-finger scroll does not work in RC2, it will be fixed in the next release.</p>

  • winner

    14 October, 2021 - 3:36 pm

    <p>I admire what StarDock does in trying to correct the flaw of Windows UI.</p><p>Still, Win 11 runs slower on Ryzen processors, you can’t put the taskbar on the side, and it’s half-baked. No thanks, I’ll suffer with Windows 10 for another year or few.</p>

  • davidblouin

    14 October, 2021 - 4:18 pm

    <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I don’t know why they advertise "option to hide the “recently installed”, and “recent document”, cause i already can do those things in Windows 11 without add-ons..</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

  • waethorn

    15 October, 2021 - 1:32 am

    <p>Can’t wait for SP1 to be released in a years time to add a bunch of the missing functionality from Windows 10 back in.</p>

  • fuller1754

    15 October, 2021 - 7:41 pm

    <p>I’m dying for Stardock to bring tabs to File Explorer. (Not via Groupy. Just simple tabs specially for File Explorer, inside the title bar.) Sure, I know about QTTabbar and have used it for years, but it’s visually outdated. If Stardock did it, it would match the W11 UI perfectly.</p>

    • hrlngrv

      Premium Member
      15 October, 2021 - 8:13 pm

      <p>There are at least a dozen 3rd party file managers supporting tabs from which to choose. Why not try one of them rather than hope for a 3rd party like Stardock to hack them into Windows’s own File Explorer?</p>

  • wspaw

    Premium Member
    15 October, 2021 - 9:19 pm

    <p>I’m really missing the ability to pin folders. I can’t seem to find a way to do this with Start11.</p>

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