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Reply to AltTabby doesn’t show up until I press (Alt+Tab) again on focused fullscreen apps in AltTabby Stardock Forums

One known cause has AltTabby handing you the standard Windows switcher, and it is cheap to rule out. Open Task Manager, go to the Details view, and check whether more than one AltTabby64.exe is running. Two copies is the signature Neil worked through in the 0.70 beta feedback thread . The workaround there was to open the AltTabby config, switch the mode between list and thumbnail, then switch back, and

Reply to Carousel Animation in AltTabby Stardock Forums

Before you go chasing the video driver, there is a cheap test that tells you whether this is a driver problem at all. Next time the animation stops, do not reboot and do not restart AltTabby. Open the AltTabby config, switch the mode (list vs thumbnail), then switch it straight back. If the animation comes back, the state that went wrong is inside AltTabby and the driver is probably not your culprit. That toggle is Neil's, from the 0.70 beta thread. A user there had a differen

Reply to In app way to quit Deskscapes 2026? in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Ending the process in Task Manager was never going to do what that button did. DeskScapes 2026 runs with a service behind it, and other users here have reported that force-ending the task just brings it back a moment later. A kill is closer to a restart than a shutdown, which fits what you saw. The tray icon is worth a look before anything else, including the hidden overflow area behind the arrow. DeskScapes 2026 has one, and 26.0.1.1 (7/27/2026) specifically fixed the tray icon not a

Reply to Start11 2.74 with taskbar features disabled in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Glad you got there, and it is worth having the answer written down on the thread. For anyone finding this later, the setting that mattered is a Start11 one rather than a Windhawk one: Taskbar > Show seconds on the taskbar clock = Off. Since you are deliberately running Start11 alongside a third-party taskbar tool, there is a documented key for that arrangement that goes further than the UI toggle. In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8, add a string value (

Reply to What still works in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

The rule pelaird quoted is the one that applies to you, since a subscription started now is a new one rather than Classic. On lapse the suite software stops activating, and there is no carve-out for the apps that are also sold on their own. An Object Desktop year does not hand you a perpetual licence for DeskScapes or SpaceMonger. Those are separate purchases with their own serials, and one you have bought outright is not touched by a subscription running out. So it is either/

Reply to How do I deactivate a start11 installation I no longer have access to (formatted) in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

The activation window is the only part of Start11 that needs .NET, and that window also hosts Internet Explorer components. On a stock Windows install you never notice either. On a custom image they are among the first things to get trimmed, which fits what you are seeing: the app itself runs, and only the activation UI hangs. Rather than fight that in a VM you are going to tear down anyway, activate from the command line and skip the UI entirely. Note that it is a different executabl

Reply to Upgrade options in Fences Stardock Forums

Your Fences 3 licence qualifies. The eligibility check accepts any registered prior Fences product, regardless of permanent, subscription, single or multi-device status. The choice it puts in front of you is permanent versus subscription. A permanent licence gets in-version updates (6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and so on) but not the next major version. A subscription includes all future major versions for as long as it stays active. The offers are labelled, so anything with "Subscription" in the wo

Reply to Feature Request: Allow arbitrary icon order in Fences Stardock Forums

You have read the rules system right. Every rule type in there decides which fence group an icon lands in, not where it sits inside one: Icon's name contains / does not contain / starts with / ends with / is exactly Link's target contains / does not contain / starts with / ends with Icon was created during a certain time of day, or a certain day of the week None of those reserve a position, so there is no way to build what you are describing

Reply to Main computer Multiplicity shows Disconnected in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

The encryption key is a security setting, not a version control. Entering it by hand will not move a machine from 4.07 back to 3.6, which is why nothing changed. Downgrading is a clean removal and a fresh install. Do it only on the secondary that will not connect. Leave your Primary and the working secondary alone. Run the Multiplicity purge file on that machine: https://cdn.stardock.us/support/uploads/Purge_MP

Reply to Main computer Multiplicity shows Disconnected in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

The secondary that will not connect is the odd one out on version. Your Primary is on 3.6, the secondary that still connects is on 3.6, and the one that dropped off is on 4.07. Multiplicity needs the same version on every machine, and when you update, every PC running it has to run the new installer. Mismatched versions are the most common cause of a connection failing. Your working secondary is the control test. Same version as the Primary, same network, same new router, stil

Reply to Unable to install DeskScapes 2026 in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Thanks for writing this up with the executable in it. Problem code 805306369 on its own is nearly unsearchable, and DeskscapesConfig.exe is the detail that will bring the next person to this thread. One thing worth watching for now that Real-Time Protection is back on. Neil Banfield's explanation on a separate report of images not rendering was that antivirus can lock access to a file for scanning at the moment DeskScapes goes to load it, and the symptom there is mini previews coming

Reply to How do I deactivate a start11 installation I no longer have access to (formatted) in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Activations are not shown on the main products page, which is likely why it came back empty. They sit one level down. Log in at store.stardock.com/myaccount/products, click View Product Keys, then click the '...' icon next to the key. That opens a window listing the activations and which PC each one is on, and you can deactivate a machine from there without needing access to it. If that view is still empty, Order History gives you a second look at the same data. Download Produ

Reply to Start11v2 is it possible to silently import configuration backup on command line. in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

The documented installer switches are /s and /noreboot, and neither of them takes a settings file, so the configuration has to arrive separately from the install. The supported route is a registry value that points Start11 at a backup file. Set it on the machine after the silent install: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8 SettingsImportPath = the full path to your .S11Backup file Start8 in that path is not a typo. It is a

Reply to Deskscape locks up displays go blank and the blue circle mouse pointer constantly runs in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

The update check is telling you the truth about the wrong thing. 11.02 shipped on 6/13/2024 and that is where the DeskScapes 11 line ends, so 11 will keep reporting itself current forever. The shipping version now is DeskScapes 2026 (26.0.1.1, released 7/27/2026), and being a major release rather than an update, it does not come down through the updater in 11. Whether it costs you anything depends on how you bought it. Active Object Desktop clients "will receive new releases at no ext

Reply to Dragging a shortcut to a tabbed menu in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

The right click move to another page is the supported route rather than a workaround, so you are not missing a cleaner in-menu method. Dragging between tabs in the same group is the part that should be working, and that is the bit worth catching in the video basj asked for. On the under the hood question, yes. The pins live in the registry and where depends on which menu style you are running. Windows 11 and App styles: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Gro

Reply to Start 11 Windows taskbar in Start8 Stardock Forums

Before you go to the trouble of moving off that build, there is a quick test that will tell you whether Start11 is even part of this. Turn off the master switch that lets Start11 enhance the taskbar, then put the taskbar back on the left and watch Explorer again. If the CPU drops, it is Start11's taskbar handling. If Explorer still sits at 12 to 24 percent with that off, Start11 is not what is driving it and the build is the thing to change. The reason I would look there first

Reply to Screen arrangement in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

Seamless is the right mode for what you are describing. It moves the keyboard and mouse between machines and nothing else, so each PC carries on driving its own screens. You are not pushing video across. The thing worth knowing before you buy: the grid arranges computers, not individual monitors. Your streaming PC is one entry in that grid no matter how many screens are attached to it. So there is no native way to say left edge goes to streaming screen 1 and right edge goes to streami

Reply to Main computer Multiplicity shows Disconnected in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

Bitdefender is where I would look first, and not because you changed anything in it. The standard firewall fix we point people at is MPPortFix, and that only writes Windows Firewall rules. A third party firewall has to be done by hand. So a Bitdefender ruleset that was fine before can still be incomplete now, because what changed underneath it is the network it is making decisions about. Your whitelist is also shorter than it needs to be. Alongside Multipl2.exe you want MPRDP6

Reply to Capital Ships AWOL in GalCiv IV Support GalCiv4 Forums

Losing a ship you paid for in marines is genuinely irritating, so this is worth pinning down rather than leaving as a mystery. What would help: which build you're on, whether the Marimando showed up anywhere at all once the boarding resolved (fleet list, ships screen) or was gone immediately, and whether it was sitting in orbit or mid transit when you took it. If you still have a save from the turn before the capture, that is the most useful thing by a distance, because it turns this into somet