Start11 Compatibility with Windows 11 KB5022913/Moment 2

A beta release to address compatibility with a new Windows 11 update

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Everyone loves a good surprise! Sometimes it’s on your birthday, sometimes your anniversary - or sometimes, Microsoft ships an update ahead of schedule. This week, Microsoft announced several new features coming to Windows 11; which is exciting, but when they start shipping updates outside of a traditional patching window, it can cause a few headaches.

Microsoft unexpectedly released KB5022913, also known as Moment 2, about two weeks ahead of schedule. This release introduces a new system tray experience in Windows 11 that has compatibility issues with older versions of Start11.

There's good news, though! We have a compatibility patch for our application and were already prepared to ship it next week to meet Microsoft’s expected March 14th (Patch Tuesday) deadline. The patch is currently available as a beta download. The version is Start11 1.4 and while there are no new features in this release, it is a significant update in terms of compatibility.

It is worth noting that KB5022913 is only being downloaded if you actively seek the update. But, anyone with Windows 11 installed who manually searches for Windows updates will be prompted to download the release. While we anticipate that the compatibility issues between Start11 and KB5022913 are only impacting a small number of users at this time, we are still moving quickly to migrate our 1.4 build from beta to general release.

If you are running Start11 on Windows 11 and are seeing oddities - primarily on secondary taskbars or in coloring around the system tray - we highly recommend you give the Start11 1.4 beta a spin. We believe it will resolve the compatibility issues that this update has introduced. If you are running into anything else after the update, please let us know in our forums so that we can accurately track bugs.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This fixed the clock problem.Thank you guys.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My taskbar is still borked.  Color and size issues. Have the Start 11 beta and Windowblinds 11 installed.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I had to uninstall the update from Microsoft to correct the issues I had;  the 1.4 beta of Start11 fixed the obvious ones but even after installing that, my start button was truncated so only the left half appeared and I wasn't able to expand the systray to show hidden icons (also all the icons in the systray hidden or not were unresponsive to right r left clicks). Uninstalling KB5022913 and rebooting corrected those problems.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Ralph598, reply 3

I had to uninstall the update from Microsoft to correct the issues I had;  the 1.4 beta of Start11 fixed the obvious ones but even after installing that, my start button was truncated so only the left half appeared and I wasn't able to expand the systray to show hidden icons (also all the icons in the systray hidden or not were unresponsive to right r left clicks). Uninstalling KB5022913 and rebooting corrected those problems.

Sounds like you might have been on the first S11 beta for the KB5022913, there has been a few more since then.

https://forums.stardock.com/517175/start11-14-beta-feedback-thread

Paul Scroggins
Associate Technical Support Analyst

 

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I must have installed 1.4.03 right before 1.4.04 was released.  The new one fixed my issues.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

So I should wait until Stardock releases the official 1.4 patch for Start11 ?

the patch is currently available as a beta download. The version is Start11 1.4 and while there are no new features in this release, it is a significant update in terms of compatibility.

https://www.stardock.com/blog/512780/how-to-access-our-beta-software#:~:text=In%20your%20Object%20Desktop%20application,specific%20application%20(see%20below)

Can't seem to find this download for the beta on this page only shows Start10 unless this is the same thing. 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Towley, reply 6

So I should wait until Stardock releases the official 1.4 patch for Start11 ?


the patch is currently available as a beta download. The version is Start11 1.4 and while there are no new features in this release, it is a significant update in terms of compatibility.



https://www.stardock.com/blog/512780/how-to-access-our-beta-software#:~:text=In%20your%20Object%20Desktop%20application,specific%20application%20(see%20below)

Can't seem to find this download for the beta on this page only shows Start10 unless this is the same thing. 

Download it from here: 

https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products

Under Object Desktop Manager, click on View Individual Downloads then scroll down to Start11 1.4.05 beta.