Start11 Move System Tray

Hello,
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Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Thank you. I should also mention that unlike other tools I've used, Stardock Start11 doesn't seem to keep Eartrumpet (a free 3rd party tool available on the Microsoft store) tray icon click popup attached to the start bar. If I move the bar to the top, I would expect Eartrumpet to slide out the volume controls under the start bar, not at the bottom of the screen.

I'm not sure why start11 would be different than other tools in this respect. For testing reasons I'll mention it was Windhawk mods. It could do top bar, tray to side monitor without changing primary, and correctly slid out Eartrumpets controls... but couldn't do multiline start on only the secondary monitor like start11 can. I'll also say Windhawk was very unstable and kept breaking. (if you'd rather I edit out the name of that product I will do so, if you don't need it as a comparison that it is at least possible)

Hence why I'm here hoping I can buy start11 and have it be my new customization tool. It seems very stable so far, which is the most important thing of course.

edit: of course ALL of this was possible out of the box in win10. You just had to drag your primary taskbar to the side monitor to get the system tray there, drag it down to 2 lines to have it be different sizes on different monitors, and just drag it to the oritentation you wanted, and Eartrumpet worked flawlessly no matter the orientation. It baffles me why win11 took away all these features.  Opportunity for start11 to fill the gap I suppose?

Thanks again

P.S. I have really fond memories of playing Sins of a Solar Empire which I purchased on this account way back in 2008, I was thrilled to find start11 is by the same developers

Quoting foyer, reply 2

Thank you. I should also mention that unlike other tools I've used, Stardock Start11 doesn't seem to keep Eartrumpet (a free 3rd party tool available on the Microsoft store) tray icon click popup attached to the start bar. If I move the bar to the top, I would expect Eartrumpet to slide out the volume controls under the start bar, not at the bottom of the screen.

I'm not sure why start11 would be different than other tools in this respect. For testing reasons I'll mention it was Windhawk mods. It could do top bar, tray to side monitor without changing primary, and correctly slid out Eartrumpets controls... but couldn't do multiline start on only the secondary monitor like start11 can. I'll also say Windhawk was very unstable and kept breaking. (if you'd rather I edit out the name of that product I will do so, if you don't need it as a comparison that it is at least possible)

Hence why I'm here hoping I can buy start11 and have it be my new customization tool. It seems very stable so far, which is the most important thing of course.

edit: of course ALL of this was possible out of the box in win10. You just had to drag your primary taskbar to the side monitor to get the system tray there, drag it down to 2 lines to have it be different sizes on different monitors, and just drag it to the oritentation you wanted, and Eartrumpet worked flawlessly no matter the orientation. It baffles me why win11 took away all these features.  Opportunity for start11 to fill the gap I suppose?

Thanks again

P.S. I have really fond memories of playing Sins of a Solar Empire which I purchased on this account way back in 2008, I was thrilled to find start11 is by the same developers

End of foyer's quote

I am pleased to say the issue with eartrumpet should be resolved in the next Start11 update.

Due to the nature of how that other product works, it is not unsurprising it would be broken with any significant Microsoft OS changes.  Start11 works differently to pretty much anything else which is why it continues to work even on insider builds of Windows or when debug symbols are not available.

That's weird. I have the "activate start11 trial" email from 5 days ago, the first email from stardock since purchasing a game in 2008. Thu, Jul 24, 7:26 PM (5 days ago). Yet start11 is telling me my "30 day trial" just expired? What is up with that?

I was waiting to hear back about moving the system tray to the second monitor without making the second monitor the primary and the potentially for the fix for Eartrumpet you mentioned to go in before pulling the trigger.

Is the trial only 5 days instead?

I should also mention installing via winget worked for that session, but upon reboot the exe's were gone and shortcuts were broken and it failed to launch. Most of the install files were there just not the exe's. I had to install via the standalone installer to get it to work.

Perhaps you can try these steps mentioned by Support: https://forums.stardock.com/495339/get;3751766. Try it and report back.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

That did the trick basj, thank you! I was worried about losing my settings, but they remained. I'll sit tight and wait on news about moving the system tray, though it is doing 90% of what I want if the next version fixes Eartrumpet tray as they say. Looking promising, thank you for making this tool!

Great, glad to hear that.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant