"We support the default Everything 1.4 and 1.5 ones (1.5a) but nothing custom."
That's a bit inconvenient, as it is handy to have a more restricted Everything for the Start Menu specifically. I note EverythingToolbar had this problem and fixed it by adding a field to specify the instance name.
Will there be any fix for the spurious search results problem at any point? I seem to recall the bug of returning unwanted items and inappropriate random executables that users are never meant to see or run directly (AppData and Program Files) has existed since Start8. At the very least, options to limit search to Start Menu items, non-hidden, non-system files and folders, would be a good start.
For most users, there is no good reason to return %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.YourPhone_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Indexed\651655de-7bb5-4154-9197-950bd9bbca3d\System\Database\*.db-wal" when searching for dBpoweramp.
It would be even more useful if search exclusions from the OS Settings panel were read from the registry and respected. There are unavoidably a lot of hidden files, folders and executables on a PC that should never be returned in search results for typical user workflows. And it is a shame to have to fall back on the system search panel or have to wrestle with Everything instances to avoid this problem as the Start11 search results panel is otherwise much less cluttered, more elegant and user-friendly.
A few suggestions for UI polish:
• With Start11 active the taskbar is often black for a second or so after sign-in and sometimes needs to be clicked on to restore the correct color.
• Rounded taskbar corners are jagged and not smooth like standard Windows 11 rounded corners.
• The settings suggestions displayed in Start11 search results for system settings (that link to the Settings app and Control Panel) have spurious tooltip texts (that show the path to an underlying link file in appdata) and menu options that are distracting, as they look like something has gone wrong or been overlooked during development and testing. What seems to be happening is that these are mistakenly being presented as user documents that have a location in the file system rather than as settings buttons. A bit of tidy-up here would make the product feel more finished. Even better (but more work) tooltips could actually be descriptive, but no tooltip at all for settings buttons would be better than interrupting the click by flashing "%LocalAppData%\Stardock\Start10Ctrlpnl\Sound settings.lnk", etc.
• Maybe an option to hide the search box and just type, same as using Windows 11 search.
• When assigning an icon to pinned items and groups, the icon file has to be a PNG to display correctly. If one selects an *.ico file, the icon is displayed blurry, as if the wrong icon resource was extracted and then upscaled. This means there is always an extra step converting *.ico to *.png to use this feature.
