Start11 2.51 - Start menu button does not show on other monitors despite the setting not being selected

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On my secondary displays, the start button does not appear. Under "hide start button on the secondary displays" I have it disabled. In fact I have everything on the "Start Button" page disabled.

Clicking the left-most app that is pinned causes the start menu to open, not focus that program. So for example, I try to click on my pinned MS Edge icon and instead it opens StarDock's start menu. If I enable "hide start button on the secondary displays"  it causes that app to disappear from the taskbar on the secondary displays.

Everything on my primary display works normally. All 3 displays are set to 150% resolution scale in Window's display settings.

I am on Windows 11 Version 23H2 (KB5051989.)

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. First Please try, uninstall Start11v2, reboot immediately (important), download latest version available in your account product download page: https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products. Install it, reboot immediately again. Retest it and report back.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I uninstalled, restarted, reinstalled, restarted as instructed. The issue still persists. I even tried starting with default settings and re-enabling settings I was using manually. I then also tried with a settings backup from before I uninstalled, still the same issue.

The issue seems to be with the "Enhanced Taskbar" and setting the icons to be centered. If I align the buttons to the left, the start menu appears and behaves normally. It is once I choose to align them to the center the start button disappears on my secondary monitors.

For now I have just chosen to disable the "Enhanced Taskbar" as with that disabled I can keep the buttons centered with no issue.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Do you have Windowblinds running and a WB skin is applied? Or any other application that changed how your Taskbar act such as Displayfusion, ExplorerPatcher etc.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I do not beleive I have anything else affecting my taskbar. I did use StartAllBack prior but it was uninstalled before installing Start11. I do use Windhawk but I didn't have any tweaks for the taskbar. I did also close Windhawk to see if that fixed it but the issue persisted.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Something might be conflicting, please try Cleanboot as mention here: https://forums.stardock.com/505872/start11-support-faq#cleanboot. Do note that you will need to follow the steps mention in there with care. Try it and report back.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant