Start8 1.12 beta available

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A beta release of Start8 1.12 is now available from https://stardock.cachefly.net/Start8_1.12_beta_setup.exe.

Full changelog for v1.1 can be found here, but here are the highlights:

  • Added support for bmp start buttons with alpha channels
  • Fix for a possible crash while searching
  • Fix for frequently used apps list not filtering out some pinned taskbar items
  • Assorted tweaks and performance improvements
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks.

I'll give it a go.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

on my account product the latest build is 1.11. why is that?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Gr8styleX, reply 3

on my account product the latest build is 1.11. why is that?

 

Because this Version s beta build not a final build .

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Start8 1.12 beta

some issues are still there since 1.11

In right to left windows :

1- Right click the Start button show the Start8 context menu in The left instead of right

2- Choosing to Show win+X when right clicking the stat button at the bottom of the screen doesn't bring up the win+X menu, but show the Start8 context menu.

3- Clicking dead link in the start menu doesn't have any effect but right click and choose open brings up the missing short cut target dialog.

 4- Right click an empty area in all programs group still selects the top icon in the menu .

5- The UI of the configuration windows layout is left to right and suppose to be RTL.

 

See screen shot

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Found a bug in 1.11, still an issue in 1.12 beta:

Unable To Pin Program

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Run a program enough times for it to appear in the "frequently accessed" list (the list that appears when you first open the menu)
  2. Rightclick that program and choose "Remove from this list"
  3. Navigate to where that program is located in the hierarchical menu structure (under "All Programs")
  4. Attempt to pin that program to Start8 (rightclick > "Pin to Start menu (Start8)")
  5. Nothing happens.

There's no way to undo the "Remove from this list" action, I've even attempted a full reinstall (including removing all Start8 registry entries, User\AppData files, and ProgramData files) and this issue persists.

 

EDIT: I can't reproduce this on another machine running "1.1 BETA 2" (I must've forgotten to upgrade lol)

EDIT2: Updated that machine, still can't reproduce it with Notepad, but the issue was with Outlook 2013 on the first machine so I'm installing Office 2013 now to test it here.

EDIT3: Running 1.12 beta on the second machine, installed Office 2013, repeated steps, bug not reproduced. Still can't figure out how to fix it on the first machine considering a reinstall didn't do anything to help.