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Start 11 - Mouse clicks are passed through active window

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Start 11 - Mouse clicks are passed through active window

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Windows 11 Home Version 21H2 build 22000.318, Start Menu 11 v1.0. Start Menu is on, button to the left, using a custom button, Windows 7 style.

I'll have a program open, it doesn't seem to matter what the program is, the program is not full screen and not overlapping the task bar, and when I click on in the program window to do something (type, click a button, etc.), the mouse-click is passed through to Start Menu 11 and I'll get an Explorer window. I'll click the title bar of my program to give it focus, and when I click in the program window again, I'll get the same Explorer window.

It is hard to reproduce this action.

It does not happen if Start Menu 11 is off.

Any ideas? Thanks.

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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top

I am in Firefox... or World of Warcraft (fullscreen windowed), I click on a link or an enemy... "My Pictures" pops up. To investigate, I do a Windows+D, press Windows key, Start11 menu pops up, and "Pictures" is right under the mouse cursor. It's not just "My Pictures" but anything that would be under mouse cursor IF the start menu was shown and in foreground, neither of which is true.

This happens at random and at first I thought I had a virus, which wasted a lot of my time, before I narrowed it down to Start11. Your program is currently unusable.

Reply #27 from Stardock Forums Top

Edition    Windows 11 Home
Version    22H2
Installed on    ‎01/‎04/‎2023
OS build    22621.1105
Experience    Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22638.1000.0

I'm posting this only so I can unsubscribe from this post.

This problem was solved for me on 12/3/2021.

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Reply #28 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting shihonage, reply 26

I am in Firefox... or World of Warcraft (fullscreen windowed), I click on a link or an enemy... "My Pictures" pops up. To investigate, I do a Windows+D, press Windows key, Start11 menu pops up, and "Pictures" is right under the mouse cursor. It's not just "My Pictures" but anything that would be under mouse cursor IF the start menu was shown and in foreground, neither of which is true.

This happens at random and at first I thought I had a virus, which wasted a lot of my time, before I narrowed it down to Start11. Your program is currently unusable.
End of shihonage's quote

And if you do this, does it still happen?

Quoting Neil, reply 17


Quoting CharlesKistler,
reply 16

Accessibility -> Visual effects -> Animation effects -> Off

Advanced settings:



Could you try enabling those and also the animation effects inside Start11 itself and see if the problem goes away?

End of Neil's quote

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Reply #29 from Stardock Forums Top

I already have #2 and #3 from top, enabled. Don't want to enable #1 because it slows down pulldown boxes and is annoying.

By  the way, I caught this bug in pre-crime state. Hovering over a window when suddenly tooltips start popping up from the Start11 menu items beneath it, like I'm hovering over an open Start11 menu. The Start11 icon was in "pressed" state. I clicked it to remove it.

Reply #30 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting shihonage, reply 29

I already have #2 and #3 from top, enabled. Don't want to enable #1 because it slows down pulldown boxes and is annoying.

By  the way, I caught this bug in pre-crime state. Hovering over a window when suddenly tooltips start popping up from the Start11 menu items beneath it, like I'm hovering over an open Start11 menu. The Start11 icon was in "pressed" state. I clicked it to remove it.
End of shihonage's quote

As a test enable number 1.  Does the problem ever reoccur?

Reply #31 from Stardock Forums Top

Enabled first box too. An hour later clicked through the World of Warcraft screen and launched some "libraries" thing from Start11 menu.

The menu opens behind applications at random and then mouse clicks through the app. If it helps, I have a Skytech M-1000 5-button mouse and I run ESET NOD32 antivirus. Oh, and the ol' Dexpot - multiple desktop manager. No mouse customization software is running.

But, OpenShell works correctly and Start11 does not.