Start11 v2 some software has a border around the icon

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Sometimes new applications appear with smaller icon and with a border. I did not change anything about them, it is fairly random (as far as I can tell) whether they'll have a border or not.

 

Example image: 

The top one is NSwag Studio, can be downloaded from: https://github.com/RicoSuter/NSwag/releases

The bottom one is TraXile, can be downloaded from: https://github.com/dermow/TraXile

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Those apps have low resolution icons only so Windows adds a frame to them and paints them smaller.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Okay I found a solution to fix this issue.

 

First you have to "touch" every icon to update last modification date, then use the Refresh icons in Start11 to update icons. This removed every border from all icons for me.

 

Batch I created to "touch" every icon (you have to run it as admin):

 

Code: asp.net
  3. @echo off
  5. for /R "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\" %%f in (*.lnk) do copy /b "%%f"+,, "%%f" 1>nul
  7. for /R "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\" %%f in (*.lnk) do copy /b "%%f"+,, "%%f" 1>nul

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

We have made a change to future updates to Start11 v2 to detect when the OS is about to do this and bypass it.

So frames should be gone in the future, hopefully to never be seen again :)

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