Start11 not changing start menu

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During the trial period, Start11 was working great.  Now that I paid, I noticed the Start Menu isn't changing.  On Windows 11, any of the options I choose (Windows 7 Style is what I'm going for) don't change the start menu and I'm stuck with the Windows 11 style.  I'm not quite sure if I'm missing a setting somewhere.  I rebooted the PC and that didn't solve the problem.

I can pick any of the style options and nothing changes the default Windows 11 start menu.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Solved my own problem.  :)  It appears under Control, I needed to have Start11 menu under 'Clicking the start button opens'.

I'm not sure why/how that setting changed since the trial period, but I can now change the ridiculous Windows 11 start menu.  Thanks!

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Great, glad you solved it yourself.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I just installed Start 11 V2 and I am now experiencing this issue even though I have both Start Menu --> Windows 7 Style -AND- Control -> Clicking the start button open "Start11 menu" selected.  Can you help?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting callcut, reply 3

I just installed Start 11 V2 and I am now experiencing this issue even though I have both Start Menu --> Windows 7 Style -AND- Control -> Clicking the start button open "Start11 menu" selected. Can you help?
End of callcut's quote

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Is this a new install Start11? or an upgrade or update? If upgrade/update from which version? If new, do you any other 3rd party software installed that change how your Start panel / Explorer work? More details on your system would also require. Need your Windows full version number, use Winver.exe.

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Basj,

Thanks for the quick reply.  I uninstalled and re-installed the Start 11 v2 release and all seems to be working properly again.  For completeness, though, I had previously been running the original Start 11 release on Win 11 - 23H2 (v22631.3235) without issue.  After installing the Start 11 v2 release over the original Start 11 release, I ran into this issue.  Again, uninstalling and re-installing appears to have resolved the issue.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Great, glad to hear that.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

i have start11 version 2.11 just updated to windows 11 24H2 & after doing so start is broken i.e. will not change the start menu i would uninstall and reinstall but i can't find the file to reinstall

any help would be greatly appreciated

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting aastone, reply 7

i have start11 version 2.11 just updated to windows 11 24H2 & after doing so start is broken i.e. will not change the start menu i would uninstall and reinstall but i can't find the file to reinstall

any help would be greatly appreciated
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Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Please check with your account product download page: https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.