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title: "Start11 2.55 Changelog (Released 10/02/2025)"
canonical: "https://support.stardock.com/space/SHC/2548072739/Start11%202.55%20Changelog%20(Released%2010%2F02%2F2025)"
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### 10/2/2025

#### Version

- UI: 2.55
- Start11Config.exe: 2.5.5.4

#### Changes

- Resolves an issue with bad info in some control panel shortcuts (Turn windows features on and off in particular).

- This fixes an issue with taskbar thumbnail popups being far left on secondary displays
- Tweaks right-click on some files in S11 to reduce the impact of a background check that has to take place to determine taskbar pin status.
- Fixes issue with pinning an item to the taskbar having a lower-than-expected res icon in some situations.
- This tweaks taskbar thumbnail positioning to potentially prevent it being too far left sometimes.

- Fixes issue with Cloudflare warp and vertical taskbars
- Fixes issue with shutdown menu in Win10 menu showing different results when right arrow opening it vs clicking or pressing enter
- This tweaks how thumbnails are handled, especially on mixed dpi setups
- Tweak for non clickable areas of the screen caused by the thumbnail window
- New option to make auto hide taskbars only hide when a window is over them (the topmost window on any given display)

- Added in RDP as an alias in search for Remote Desktop
- Added support for anything following -- in a search string to be passed as a command line.  This only works with some apps, depending on how the app has a shortcut
- Added new command line for Start11Config to apply changes to registry keys if done manually.  Run Start11Config RELOADSETTINGS
- Performance improvements to general drawing and animations,
- Fixes for older icons having boxes around them sometimes
- Tweak that may help whatsapp notification badges
- Should fix issue with taskbar areas getting screen dirt
- Should resolve issue with DisplayFusion secondary taskbars not showing correctly
- Resolves issue with shadows on menus being the wrong way up
- This should resolve the issue with WhatsApp and message notifications
- Adds in support for S11_OnlyShowSignout registry key which makes Sign Out the only power menu option. Location:  
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8
- Fix to a thread leak when opening locations as menus, a memory leak in the same situation resolved
- Fixes for custom start button image size when resizing a vertical taskbar and when on Win10.
- Fix for fullscreen animations on insider build painting twice,
- Tweaks universal icon loading to be quicker, resolves some steam game icons being small and instead stretching low res icons for those larger
- Fix for switching virtual desktops causing taskbar changes if the user has different non max/max settings
- Wheel mouse can now be used to scroll vertical taskbar when full
- Resizing a vertical taskbar now correctly recentres things
- A possible fix for non clickable areas of the desktop for some users
- The position of the thumbnail previews on a vertical taskbar have been tweaked to overlap less though they may go slightly off screen but not unusably so
- A small tweak to tab image loading to reduce max memory usage during load of an image.
- Now shows sub menus for folders for computer link and document
- Resolves a performance issue with large menus
- Resolves issue with closing the start menu with the mouse causing it to reopen if the mouse moves between mouse down and up on the start button with the start menu open
- Fixes the mouseover indicator in Win10 style menus
- Fixes spotify taskbar icon bug.
- Fixes a problem with right clicking to the left of the start button on a secondary taskbar when the taskbar is set to centred with enhanced taskbar enabled
- Translation updates