Screwy taskbar scrolling

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I have just started using Start11, specifically because I wanted to be able to uncombine my taskbar buttons on Windows 11.  But I am baffled by the behaviour of this scroll bar on the right-hand side - is there any way to disable it?  I have expanded my taskbar to 2 rows, so there is plenty of space.  But it still forces me to use scrolling - so if I scroll down, it shows an entire empty row.  Does anyone have any ideas?

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. What version of Windows please? Use Winver.exe to get those information. And what version of Start11 you have on?

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Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Sure - I am on the Win11 beta channel. I was on build 22598.200 when writing my post, and Start11 v1.22.  However when checking my Windows version, I noticed that I had a preview release pending download - I have installed it and am now on build 22610.100. I still have the same problem.

I did notice that if I close a couple of windows, the scroll bar will go away. It seems to happen if there are either 11 or 12 windows open.  Once a certain number of windows are open, the scroll bar turns on, regardless of how much space is actually available.

I think I can pretty clearly see what's happening here - once the taskbar fills up with the windows at full size, each task shrinks to half size. When it does this, that is when the scroll bar appears, even though there is now plenty of space. But if the windows were still at full size, they would have had to spill onto a 3rd line. So whatever triggers the scroll bar isn't able to understand that the size allotted to each window shrank, and that I no longer need 3 lines to hold them all.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

From what I read Stardock is not supporting Preview/Beta Windows releases. But, I have forward your problem/question to Stardock Support Team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant