Very good software.

One problem: most of the fonts in Start8 Menu are respecting the OS settings regarding ClearType (when ClearType is OFF, they are displayed in the same way).

The fonts which does not respect this setting are:

- All Programs / Back

- Search programs and files (the input text is OK)

- Shut down button (the submenu is OK)

I kindly ask you to fix this.

Thank you,

Quinn

Could you be more specific?

Start8 1.17 should work just fine on Windows 8.1 preview.

Hello,

I used the 1.16 on Windows 8.1 Preview and had the problem that the Windows start button was over the Start8 Button. I than created a my own custom button, that simply has double the width than the default button and set the new design to start 8. I thant had to Start Buttons, one for the windows 8 start screen and one for the Start8 menu. This was useful. Maybe you should add an Option to Show the Start8 Button besides the Windows button to always have to Buttons. I just installed 1.17 for testing.

Bye

I am using Start8 version 1.17 on Windows 8 (not 8.1). Unfortunately, the menu no longer skins properly if run in conjunction with Windowblinds 8.0 (017). It looks OK when I open the menu, yet as soon as I start mousing over the entries (i.e., text and icons) some of the text in the left half of the menu becomes garbled while that on the right just disappears.

I have added an example below. The skin is 'diamond'. This happens with other skins too, however. Note that the black box on the right is simply where my user name used to be.

On a somewhat related note, I wondered if the final version of 1.17 will allow us to block the Windowblinds skinning feature. I was quite happy with the Win7 menu clone. Currently the 'Which theme do you want to use' option is greyed out.

EDIT #1 - some skins will leave the text in the left half of the menu intact. Among them are Laguna and 7Plus. Both still make a mess of the right half of the menu, though - in the same manner as the other skins.

EDIT #2 - After I uninstalled uxstyle core beta fewer skins displayed the problems described above. They persist in Aero Seven (menu on right disappears) and Aero Seven XP (menu on right disappears). Laguna is fine now, as is Diamond.

Could you provide a link to those skins with the issue as the only Aero 7 skin I could find had no XP substyle and worked just fine with Start 8 1.17.

Every skin I have tried is perfectly happy with WB 8 and Start8 1.17.

Yes, of course.

Aero Ultimate by fediaFedia (download link on the right). Substyle is 'Aero Seven'.

http://fediafedia.deviantart.com/art/Aero-Ultimate-FINAL-81684745

Aero Seven XP by Ernasco

http://ernasco.deviantart.com/art/Aero-Seven-Xp-RC5-134438015

Many thanks!

The issue i've been reporting (https://forums.stardock.com/443842/page/1/) is still there, wondering if you're gonna fix it in the new final release or not.

Thanks in advance!

I just did a fresh install for 1.17 beta and it's still not working. When I click o the Start Menu it takes me to the Windows 8 menu...I've tried restarted and still not working.

In testing we have not experienced any problems with Start8 1.17 on Windows 8.1 preview.

Are you sure you didn't set Start8 to show the Windows 8 menu when the button is pressed?  I would carefully check your settings, or simply delete everything under HKCU\Software\Stardock\Start8 in the registry and reboot and it should revert to the Start8 defaults.

Sorry, entered wrong link to my post reporting jump list cleaning bug. It was this one: https://forums.stardock.com/443842/page/1/ (also fixed in my previous post)

Hi Neil,

Have you been able to isolate the problem with those two skins I linked to? I had hoped updating to the new Windowblinds beta would resolve this problem, but unfortunately it hasn't.

Something I noticed only yesterday is that sometimes if one of those two aero skins is run first, other skins will display similar problems until a system restart. I assume reloading start8 would do the trick, too, but the problem does not always occur, so that I cannot currently try out other possible solutions.

Many thanks in advance.

- Swiveller

Received an email today saying that Start 8 is compatible with Windows 8.1 and to download from a link. But the link takes we to version 1.16 which I thought wasn't compatible. And the beta is 1.17 that I'm currently using. So is there a version available outside of the beta that is compatible? If so where can I download it from?

Here is the text of the email sent by Stardock:

Software updated for Windows® 8.1

Start8, Fences, Decor8, ModernMix and WindowBlinds have all been updated to support the Windows 8.1 update. The updates can be downloaded via the store accounts page or Stardock Central (if Show betas is enabled) for registered users.

The mail is talking about the beta.  The store should have a beta link as well.

The release versions will be soon and Start8 is actually getting a second beta update today.

That is fine, it just should be more clear and the link takes you to version 1.16 which has issues with Windows 8.1 from what I've been told. Looking forward to Beta 2.