I am using both Start11 and DisplayFusion on the same PC. However, even if I turn off Start11's taskbar extension, I am unable to use DisplayFusion's taskbar extension. Is there a way to use DisplayFusion's taskbar?

While this is happening less with 2.52 beta than 2.50 and 2.51 stable, I am still having issues where if I am up from my desk and leave my computer locked for a while, it lags up everything.  Nothing seems to resolve it besides killing Explorer, killing Start11, and then restarting Explorer.  If I preemptively kill Start11 before I leave my computer, the issue doesn't happen.

Even if things aren't so bad my computer is too lagged up to be usable, sometimes Explorer seemingly randomly crashes and restart.  If I preemptively killed Start11 at boot, that doesn't seem to happen.

A couple days back, I did try uninstalling Start11, rebooting, installing the latest version, and rebooting again.  The issue just happened again, which is why I am writing now.

My experience seems to track with the above suggestion Start11 may have a memory leak when the computer is left on the lock screen.  Other things that seem potentially relevant to mention:

• At this point, the main Start11 customizations I have are the Win10-style Start menu and moving my taskbar to the top of my screen.  I hoped disabling other taskbar customizations would reduce Start11's resource usage enough to stop the issues, but no luck.
• My computer is a laptop with a high-density (2×) display, but I regularly use it connected to two 1× displays.  I have had issues with taskbar items getting stuck at 2× when I connect to the external displays or getting stuck at 1× when I disconnect.  I don't recall ever having those issues prior to Start11 2.5x.  It occurred to me if the machine went to sleep while I was away, this issue with (re)connecting to external displays may compound with the potential memory leak on the lock screen.
  
  
• Sometimes, when Explorer starts lagging up, it seems to impact Firefox first/more severely than Chrome.  I don't know whether there is something Start11 does that may conflict with some way Firefox interacts with Windows?  It could just be coincidental (e.g. different browser architectures responding differently to Start11's resource consumption).
• The computer has a 12th Gen i7, 32 GB RAM, and the latest stable channel updates for Windows 11 (24H2), Chrome, and Firefox.
• The only other apps I use to customize Windows at this point are Auto Dark Mode and Microsoft PowerToys (specifically the Advanced Paste, Always On Top, Color Picker, Environment Variables, Find My Mouse, Hosts File Editor, Image Resizer, Keyboard Manager, PowerRename, PowerToys Run, Quick Accent, Screen Ruler, and Shortcut Guide modules).

I want to use DisplayFusion's taskbar functionality on my primary display. For Start11, I only need the Start menu feature. I don't mind if the Start11 menu can only be accessed via keyboard shortcuts.

When I was using only DisplayFusion, hovering the mouse cursor over an application on the primary window’s taskbar would bring up a small preview of the application. By right-clicking on it, I could access DisplayFusion’s functions (This included functions such as moving applications to another display). It’s the same function that DisplayFusion provides on the taskbar of the secondary window.

1. Build 26100.2894

2. I can try.  To my knowledge, Auto Dark Mode (the way I have it configured) doesn't do anything except change the system theme to dark at sunset and light at sunrise, so it wouldn't explain the issue happening in the middle of the day, but I will leave it disabled to see.

Also, my hypothesis about external displays seems to be wrong—I left the computer disconnected from external displays at the end of the workday yesterday, woke it up without connecting it to one this morning, and it still had the taskbar inexplicably stuck rendering at 1× on the laptop's 2× display.  (And then Explorer crashed and restarted, restoring everything to normal.)

It doesn't seem unique to my system considering it seems extremely similar to what Aragain Falls described—well-spec'd machine with Win11 24H2 build 26100.2894, running Start11 just for the start menu, experiencing what appears to be (having ruled out my other hypotheses for my system) some sort of memory leak when left on the lock screen while running Start11 v2.5x, but not earlier versions.

The beta has been updated, please see the updated changelog here.

Hi all, I am back here, I discovered a new bug in relation to the Live Captions tool.

Version 24H2 (0S Build 26100.3194), Start 11 v2.52. :

Enhanced taskbar bottom and live caption taskbar at the top of the screen all ok

Enhanced taskbar bottom and live caption taskbar at the bottom of the screen, live caption crashes.

No enhanced taskbar (windows 11 taskbar), live caption ok

Enhanced taskbar vertical, live caption also crashes.

I don't know if you can do something about it, because the live caption tool is behaving like another taskbar and does not know where the Start 11 taskbar is to avoid the conflict. I can live with the issue but wanted to bring this up since I discovered the issue.

Thanks for the report.  We have that sorted internally now.

The microphone active icon is upside down, also the GPS - location icon is also upside down the last time I saw it..

Yes, still upside down after a PC reboot. 

Just uninstalled Start11 Beta 2.5.2.0-j201, rebooted, installed Beta 2.5.2.1-j203, rebooted and pleased to report the right click menus for the taskbar icons are now dropping down as intended when the taskbar is on the top of a multi-monitor setup.  (Prior to this I am guessing they popped 'upwards' which is off the display)  Thank you, now I can get back to work.