Quoting aerodriver,

reply 50

I am using Start11 (new user) and have run into a problem.  When I run a PowerShell window, cmd.exe, and WSL window (some with multiple instances) they are all getting bunched into the one icon on the taskbar. 

I like having all items of the *same* kind on one icon, but in the screenshot below I'm running three different kinds of windows and so there should be three 'populated' icons on the task bar ... yet they are all grouped into the one icon (where my mouse is in the screenshot).

In fact, most of these windows are PowerShell windows, yet on the taskbar the PowerShell icon has no windows attached to it.

Is there a way to change this so that PowerShell windows go with the PowerShell icon, CMD windows with the CMD icon, WSL/Ubuntu windows with the Ubuntu icon?

Out of curiosity, are you using 'Always combine'?

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Thanks for the replies.  I have a solution below.

My Start11 app (v2.6) setting: Taskbar > Enhanced taskbar settings ... does not look like your screenshot -- nothing about combining taskbar buttons.  But in my regular Windows 11 settings I have: Personalization > Taskbar .... "Combine taskbar buttons and hide labels" -> set to "Always".  My active icons are combined.  So I have the setting you indicated, so that was not involved.   But apart from that I found the culprit.

I put this question to AI and the answer follows.

Question:

I'm on Windows 11 and have both PowerShell and Windows Terminal pinned to the taskbar separately.

When I click the pinned PowerShell icon, a PowerShell session opens correctly — but inside Windows Terminal. As a result, the active window indicator (the underline/dot) appears under the Windows Terminal pinned icon instead of under the PowerShell pinned icon.

Why does this happen, and how can I make it so that clicking the PowerShell pinned icon shows the active instance indicator under the PowerShell icon itself (not under Windows Terminal)?

Answer:

I took Option 1:

Now all terminals shows their respective active instances: powershell.exe, cmd.exe,  WindowsTerminal.exe,  wsl.exe (Ubuntu) and wsl.exe.  No bunching up anymore.  Blame: Windows 11 nonsense.

Thanks for your support... I'll keep investigating even if I don't know what else to look for...

Baio

Thanks again for helping me... I appreciate it a lot.

Trying to open Adrenalin Panel from SysTray icon or context menu on Desktop or Start Menu (even launching RadeonSoftware.exe from its folder) brings to the same behaviour, splash screen is displayed for a second, than disappears (and also the SysTray icon pops away). If I leave the pc doing nothing after login the SysTary icon disappears after a few minutes even without invoking the .exe file.

What I tried: disabled iGPU, connected both monitors to the dGPU, changed DP ports, passed DDU, AMD CleanUp utility, tried every driver version starting from 25.9.1 ahead, removed all RGB software (I use Corsar iCUEm Logitech GHub and SApphire Trixx)... no luck. Also tried every workaround ChatGPT suggested, no luck again.

In november I also tried a fresh Windows 11 installation as suggested by AMD Customer Care, the Panel popped up untill a certain point, then the bug began. Couldn't determine what software or Windows 11 update broke the thing.

Any suggestion will be veeeeery muche welcome, I don't really know what else to try apart for searching for a software conflict.

Baio

Refresher: When I configure Start11 to place the startbar on the right edge of the righthand monitor it will eventually disappear. It is there, as shown by programs' thumbnails appearing when the cursor is moved up and down the screen's right edge.

After running for several days without misbehaving, Start11 failed again. As before, the startbar positioned on the right edge of the righthand monitor disappeared.

Using Task Manager to restart Explorer did not restore normal visiblity. Restarting Explorer using the button in Start11's configuration window also does not restore taskbar visibility.

I have one program shortcut positioned very close to the bottom right corner of the monitor, but when Start11 repositions the now invisible startbar to the right edge of the screen that shortcut moves left to allow room for the startbar. This suggests Windows believes the startbar is positioned on the right edge of the screen even though it is not visible.

I have nothing other to suggest here. Moving forward, I believe it is best if you ask for help from AMD Adrenalin Community Forum, look like your issue is on system level and have nothing to do with Start11. Unless you notice something else that link it back to Start11.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Quoting xechostormx,

reply 63

just a slight annoyance more than anything, no matter how many times I uncheck 'recently installed', it always comes back.

Start 11 v2.60

Windows 11 IOT Enterprise 25H2

installed 2/17/26 (but this was happening on the last install too)

build 2600.7840

system: Ryzen 5800x3d, Geforce RTX 4070TI

S. 

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Have you tried disable this option?

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

I don't usually use Modern, perhaps, try these steps, you can temporarily change the Start menu style to "Windows App style"->Configure Menu->Advance options->Turn off Show recently added apps.-> Change back to "Modern style" and see if the "Recently Added" still there.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Italian is not a 'core language we support.  For the ones we do support, and to add \ make changes, please see:

https://github.com/StardockCorp/Stardock-Software-Localization

That said, for you to make the change locally on your PC, you can go here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Start11\lang

Find the it.lng file, open it in say Notepad.

Find (Ctrl + F) the wrong word and edit it there.  Example:

Edit that to what you want it to be.  Save it, reload the S11 UI.  It should show what you changed it to.  

If you wanted, you could use that Github repo I linked to to a 'pull request' with the updated file and we will incorporate it - along with any other changes you see fit. 

Thank you for pointing it out giacomo5624.

Sean Drohan
Product Lifecycle Manager

unfortunately, switching to another theme and setting advanced settings there that did not carry over to modern, but thank you for the suggestion. I would like to request that the advanced options be added to start 11v2's modern theme.

I appreciate your help. 

I don't know if this bug is new or old, but I noticed it today in the latest version (2.6). While renaming an entry, Ctrl + Backspace does not work. It's supposed to delete the word to the left of the cursor, but instead an unprintable character is added:

This was seen in Start11 2.6 on Windows 11 (25H2 OS Build 26200.7922).

Hello,
You can use Start10tweak.exe to quickly disable Start11 services and unload Start11. It should be available in your Start11 installed folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Start11. Its name Start10, but, from what I know, it still work for Start11 

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.