Start11 and Taskbar Icons and Recent Files

The taskbar already has this feature.

Do you perhaps have a top aligned taskbar?  If so in the release version of Start11 you need to enable enhanced taskbar enabled on the latest Windows 11 install.

The latest beta of Start11 allows this without enhanced taskbar enabled too.

My Taskbar is at the bottom.

The option to Let Start11 enhance the taskbar is on.

I still do not see any recently opened files in any of my taskbar icons.

I should have the latest version because I just downloaded it from the web for the first time because I was fed up with seeing the worthless Recommendations taking up space in my Start with no way to remove it. 

Plus I wanted a two line task bar so that I can see the day of the week again (but apparently there is no option either in Windows11, nor in Start11 to bring that back... oooof... or is there?

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. May we know your full Windows version and OS Build number. Please use Winver.exe to get it.

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

It says I am using Windows 11 version 24H2 Build 26100.2605

I am the Administrator on the machine and the sole User and it is a local user account (not a Microsoft Account)

Two days ago, I installed Windows from scratch and reformatted my hard drive using

     Create Windows 11 Installation Media
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

And manually entered the license key in the Win11 Pro retail box purchased with my desktop PC two years ago and performed every Windows Update (there were about 5 of of them total)

I just now uninstalled Start11 and rebooted my computer and the JumpLists are still not there.

It would appear that my problem is not with Start11, which is likely calling the Windows11 function to do this, but Windows11 itself.

I see that there used to be an option to
      "Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar.."

I do see commentary that MS moved this option to Settings Personalization Start, but it is not there in my current version of Windows 11, neither is it in the Taskbar section.  

I see no commentary at all that says it is gone, but maybe they just recently removed it (like they removed the ability to unlock the Taskbar and resize it or move it)

Maybe I need to install the copy of Windows on my USB stick from 2 years ago that I had been using until three days ago and I will get that option back.  Ug.  It took two full days to get where I am now.  Maybe there is an alternative method to do this.

Hello,

Unless I misunderstood your issue, have you tried this setting. Do know, when you turn off and on this setting, your recent list will be reset to none. You will need to open up some documents to populate the list again to make it show up in your recent jumplist.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Thank you so much... I guess I saw the word recommended and stopped reading and did not see the words "recent files"... that worked... I did turn that off in my effort to get rid of all recommendations.  The last thing I need is to be diverted from what I am looking for to something Microsoft wants to draw my attention to.

But alas, it would seem that when I turn that back on, I also am forced to see that Recommendations list below my Pinned Apps (Before today, I have been ignoring this screen and turned to Start11 to make this actually useful).

Is there an option to turn off Recommendations on any of the Windows 11 styles?

Please try turn off this setting by right clicking on the "#" key on your All applications list. Refer screenshot below.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

I do not see a # on my All Apps.. I am guessing you have an App that starts with a non-alphabetic A-Z character?
However I get the same menu by right clicking on any header: A, B, etc

I now have a list of Recent Documents instead of Recommendations and I am fine with that... it is a bit redundant because of the "Recent Files..." I added to the right hand side of the Windows Pro Style, but it is more helpful than Recommendations. 

I also see that adding pinned items just pushes the Recent Documents down and maybe even off the screen, so I am good now.

Thank you.

Maybe adding icons for apps and documents and folders and... would have also pushed Recommendations off the screen as well and all this time was for naught just because I never pinned any icons over the past 2 years and never tried spending the time before to make it actually useful.  I have always just typed whatever I wanted, but I find with my advancing age, the name of the program I want is getting harder and harder to retrieve quickly and I now need a better way to quickly choose from icon options with a mouse.  I had used MS DOS for some 15 years before I had to start using MS-Windows and a mouse, so that was only natural and faster.

Now to figure out how to add day of the week to the Taskbar somewhere.  

I tried changing the Windows display format for the date to ddd MM/dd/yy, but that had a lot of negative consequences.

Thank you so much for your time.  I consider this case closed, probably.