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It’s a big improvement over the default Windows 11 experience. You can tweak the location of the taskbar on each individual display, and resizing the icons certainly helps to maximize usable screen space on both tablet-sized and 4K displays. (Doing so within the Start11 Settings menu requires you to click a button to manually restart the Windows Explorer process manually.) Start11 allows you to move the taskbar to the top or bottom of the screen - not the sides - and resize the icons.
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Start11 does, though not with the full flexibility of Windows 10. Mark Hachman / IDG Tweaking your taskbar with Start11Īs our Windows 11 review highlighted, Windows 11 doesn’t let you to resize the taskbar or move it around your screen.
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Here’s how to get Windows for cheap (or even for free) After that, Start11 makes Windows 11 look as you please and then simply gets out of the way. The program itself consists of a straightforward settings menu, where you can tweak things as you’d like. Start11 simply installs over the top of Windows 11, presenting a more familiar way to interact with the operating system. Start11 is the latest iteration of the “StartX” utilities from Stardock, which shipped similar Start8 and Start10 utilities as throwback UIs to earlier versions of the Windows operating system after Windows 8 and Windows 10 launched, respectively. But if you’d like a more gentle transition between Windows 10 and Windows 11, Start11 certainly helps. Start11, priced at $4.99 as a standalone utility, doesn’t offer everything: it can’t create any dynamic Windows 10 Live Tiles, for example, and your ability to move and resize the Windows 11’s taskbar icons is still somewhat limited. Start11, among other handy tricks, lets you move the taskbar around your desktop and configure the Start menu to emulate Windows 10’s look and feel. Stardock Software’s Start11 utility is shipping today as a 1.0 release, and if you hate the reductionist new design of the Windows 11 Start menu and taskbar, you’ll want to check it out.
