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Reply to KVM Mode – Display Artifacts in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

You are right, it moved and it changed shape. What was one checkbox is now a three way selector in that panel: Low, Standard and High compression. You are sitting on Standard, which is the recommended one, so there was nothing there for you to switch on and nothing you missed. Worth knowing what that rules out. The corruption bug this subsystem has actually had was in low compression mode, fixed back in 4.0.0.4. Low also wants a 2.5GbE link, which that panel says itself. You are not o

Reply to KVM Mode – Display Artifacts in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

Not a comprehension problem. The gear is not in the main Multiplicity settings window, it sits on the configuration screen for one specific KVM connection. On the Primary, open the KVM tab and double-click the Latitude's entry in the connections list, or select it and click Edit. That opens the per-connection config with the passcode, display name and KVM mode display fields on it. The gear on that screen is Advanced KVM settings. Advanced only ever held the one option in what

Reply to Where is Skin Studio? in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

SkinStudio is not part of the WindowBlinds install, which is why clicking edit on a style sends you off to the product page. There is nothing on your machine for it to open yet. You do not need Object Desktop to get it. It is a separate download either way, and the current one is public: https://cdn.stardock.us/downloads/public/software/skinstudio/SkinStudio_11_setup.exe?a=sd</a

Reply to KVM Mode – Display Artifacts in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

Those vertical streaks in your screenshot are stale regions that never got repainted, trailing down from the windows that changed. That reads as a frame encoding problem rather than something wrong on the Latitude's own display. The lever we have on that is per connection. Open the KVM connection's settings, go to the gear icon and Advanced KVM settings, and flip "Force video encoding mode (quality will be lower for text)". Whichever way it is set now, set it the other way. Those labe

Reply to Start 11 Accent color and show desktop in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Taskbar color runs through Start11 rather than Windows once the enhanced taskbar is on, which is usually what is behind an accent color not taking. On the Taskbar tab look for "Use automatic color for taskbar". While that is on, Windows personalization picks the color; switch it off and you can set it yourself. That wording is from the v1 layout, so on v2 it may sit a little differently on the tab, but it is the same setting. Both of those depend on "Let Start11 enhance the taskba

Reply to Does not open certian Windows in AltTabby Stardock Forums

AltTabby replaces the Alt+Tab switcher, not the Win+Tab one. Win+Tab is Windows' own task view, so what you are scrolling through there is the OS switcher, which would explain it landing on mail or Firefox instead of the window you picked. Try Alt+Tab and see whether the iClone and Character Creator windows are listed the way you expect. If an app is missing from AltTabby's own switcher, click the settings cog on the switcher and pick Manage exclusions and grouping. An app sitting

Reply to Remove mouse hover selecting windows behaviour in AltTabby Stardock Forums

Rows and columns are configurable, and that is where I would start on the gap you get with six windows open. Our announcement for the beta lists configurable rows and columns among the customization options, so the layout you are looking at is not the only one on offer. The hover behaviour I cannot give you a setting for. Nothing we have published documents a way to stop a preview being selected when the mouse passes over it, and I would rather say that than point you at a toggle I ca

Reply to Dual Monitors: Start11 Cannot Pin the Taskbar to the Left or Right Sides in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Check Let Start11 enhance the taskbar on the Taskbar tab first. On Windows 11 that switch is what unlocks the per-display taskbar options, and Start11 settings greyed out for a second monitor are usually it being off. Our documentation is explicit about this for the settings next door: "To further configure the start button and/or taskbar items to left aligned or center aligned on Windows 11, first enable the 'Let Start11 enhance the taskbar' setting from the Taskbar

Reply to Multiplicity 4 cannot send Audio in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

The split you are describing lines up with the install history more than the hardware. The laptop that sends is the one that only ever had a clean 4.07 on it. The two that will not send are the two that had Multiplicity 3 from Steam taken off by hand. For a genuinely clean removal, use the purge file rather than Add/Remove Programs: https://cdn.stardock.us/support/uploads/Purge_MP-New.zip Right-click it and choose Run as Administrator, and on Windows 11 you have to pick "Show more opt

Reply to [IMPORTANT] Software Updates are Stealing Focus in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

Thanks Tim. A notification pulling itself to the foreground is not how that should behave, and knocking a fullscreen game down with it is a defect rather than something you would fix in settings. The two version numbers and the 25H2 build are the useful part of what you posted. One thing worth pinning down. There are two separate things that can raise an update prompt for Start11 and Fences: each product's own update check, and Object Desktop Manager if you have that installed. They a

Reply to AltTabby doesn’t show up until I press (Alt+Tab) again on focused fullscreen apps in AltTabby Stardock Forums

One known cause has AltTabby handing you the standard Windows switcher, and it is cheap to rule out. Open Task Manager, go to the Details view, and check whether more than one AltTabby64.exe is running. Two copies is the signature Neil worked through in the 0.70 beta feedback thread . The workaround there was to open the AltTabby config, switch the mode between list and thumbnail, then switch back, and

Reply to Carousel Animation in AltTabby Stardock Forums

Before you go chasing the video driver, there is a cheap test that tells you whether this is a driver problem at all. Next time the animation stops, do not reboot and do not restart AltTabby. Open the AltTabby config, switch the mode (list vs thumbnail), then switch it straight back. If the animation comes back, the state that went wrong is inside AltTabby and the driver is probably not your culprit. That toggle is Neil's, from the 0.70 beta thread. A user there had a differen

Reply to In app way to quit Deskscapes 2026? in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Ending the process in Task Manager was never going to do what that button did. DeskScapes 2026 runs with a service behind it, and other users here have reported that force-ending the task just brings it back a moment later. A kill is closer to a restart than a shutdown, which fits what you saw. The tray icon is worth a look before anything else, including the hidden overflow area behind the arrow. DeskScapes 2026 has one, and 26.0.1.1 (7/27/2026) specifically fixed the tray icon not a

Reply to Start11 2.74 with taskbar features disabled in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Glad you got there, and it is worth having the answer written down on the thread. For anyone finding this later, the setting that mattered is a Start11 one rather than a Windhawk one: Taskbar > Show seconds on the taskbar clock = Off. Since you are deliberately running Start11 alongside a third-party taskbar tool, there is a documented key for that arrangement that goes further than the UI toggle. In HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8, add a string value (

Reply to What still works in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

The rule pelaird quoted is the one that applies to you, since a subscription started now is a new one rather than Classic. On lapse the suite software stops activating, and there is no carve-out for the apps that are also sold on their own. An Object Desktop year does not hand you a perpetual licence for DeskScapes or SpaceMonger. Those are separate purchases with their own serials, and one you have bought outright is not touched by a subscription running out. So it is either/

Reply to How do I deactivate a start11 installation I no longer have access to (formatted) in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

The activation window is the only part of Start11 that needs .NET, and that window also hosts Internet Explorer components. On a stock Windows install you never notice either. On a custom image they are among the first things to get trimmed, which fits what you are seeing: the app itself runs, and only the activation UI hangs. Rather than fight that in a VM you are going to tear down anyway, activate from the command line and skip the UI entirely. Note that it is a different executabl

Reply to Upgrade options in Fences Stardock Forums

Your Fences 3 licence qualifies. The eligibility check accepts any registered prior Fences product, regardless of permanent, subscription, single or multi-device status. The choice it puts in front of you is permanent versus subscription. A permanent licence gets in-version updates (6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and so on) but not the next major version. A subscription includes all future major versions for as long as it stays active. The offers are labelled, so anything with "Subscription" in the wo

Reply to Feature Request: Allow arbitrary icon order in Fences Stardock Forums

You have read the rules system right. Every rule type in there decides which fence group an icon lands in, not where it sits inside one: Icon's name contains / does not contain / starts with / ends with / is exactly Link's target contains / does not contain / starts with / ends with Icon was created during a certain time of day, or a certain day of the week None of those reserve a position, so there is no way to build what you are describing

Reply to Main computer Multiplicity shows Disconnected in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

The encryption key is a security setting, not a version control. Entering it by hand will not move a machine from 4.07 back to 3.6, which is why nothing changed. Downgrading is a clean removal and a fresh install. Do it only on the secondary that will not connect. Leave your Primary and the working secondary alone. Run the Multiplicity purge file on that machine: https://cdn.stardock.us/support/uploads/Purge_MP

Reply to Main computer Multiplicity shows Disconnected in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

The secondary that will not connect is the odd one out on version. Your Primary is on 3.6, the secondary that still connects is on 3.6, and the one that dropped off is on 4.07. Multiplicity needs the same version on every machine, and when you update, every PC running it has to run the new installer. Mismatched versions are the most common cause of a connection failing. Your working secondary is the control test. Same version as the Primary, same network, same new router, stil

Reply to Unable to install DeskScapes 2026 in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Thanks for writing this up with the executable in it. Problem code 805306369 on its own is nearly unsearchable, and DeskscapesConfig.exe is the detail that will bring the next person to this thread. One thing worth watching for now that Real-Time Protection is back on. Neil Banfield's explanation on a separate report of images not rendering was that antivirus can lock access to a file for scanning at the moment DeskScapes goes to load it, and the symptom there is mini previews coming

Reply to How do I deactivate a start11 installation I no longer have access to (formatted) in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Activations are not shown on the main products page, which is likely why it came back empty. They sit one level down. Log in at store.stardock.com/myaccount/products, click View Product Keys, then click the '...' icon next to the key. That opens a window listing the activations and which PC each one is on, and you can deactivate a machine from there without needing access to it. If that view is still empty, Order History gives you a second look at the same data. Download Produ

Reply to Start11v2 is it possible to silently import configuration backup on command line. in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

The documented installer switches are /s and /noreboot, and neither of them takes a settings file, so the configuration has to arrive separately from the install. The supported route is a registry value that points Start11 at a backup file. Set it on the machine after the silent install: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8 SettingsImportPath = the full path to your .S11Backup file Start8 in that path is not a typo. It is a

Reply to Deskscape locks up displays go blank and the blue circle mouse pointer constantly runs in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

The update check is telling you the truth about the wrong thing. 11.02 shipped on 6/13/2024 and that is where the DeskScapes 11 line ends, so 11 will keep reporting itself current forever. The shipping version now is DeskScapes 2026 (26.0.1.1, released 7/27/2026), and being a major release rather than an update, it does not come down through the updater in 11. Whether it costs you anything depends on how you bought it. Active Object Desktop clients "will receive new releases at no ext

Reply to Dragging a shortcut to a tabbed menu in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

The right click move to another page is the supported route rather than a workaround, so you are not missing a cleaner in-menu method. Dragging between tabs in the same group is the part that should be working, and that is the bit worth catching in the video basj asked for. On the under the hood question, yes. The pins live in the registry and where depends on which menu style you are running. Windows 11 and App styles: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Gro