I’ve been using the Start11 Release Candidate since yesterday and it is a huge improvement, over both the beta and the horribly limited stock Start menu in Windows 11. Improving the classic and modern search experiences.Windows 10 users can select a Windows 11 style menu.Windows 10 style taskbar context menu for Windows 11.Repositioning the taskbar to the top of the desktop for Windows 11.Enhancing Windows 10 and Windows 11 menus with new functionality like pages.Returning the Start menu to the appearance of previous versions of Windows.New features in the Start11 Release Candidate include: “For this release, we’ve added several new Start menu layouts to choose from, restored context menu functionality, enabled repositioning of the taskbar, plus one of our users’ favorite features: Fences integration.” “We put the first beta out quickly in order to regain some of the lost functionality from the Windows 11 Start menu,” Stardock CEO Brad Wardell says. This follows the original beta release from early August. Start11, now available in release candidate form. This isn't much to my taste, but you can choose your own image too if you have something else in mind.Windows 11 users who are understandably unhappy with the new Start menu now have a compelling new alternative from Stardock. You can even choose between different 'textures' for the Taskbar, such as wood or fabric. Then there's granular control over asthetics such as how transparent the Taskbar is, plus the ability to change its color to anything you like. You can change the Start icon to anything you like, and Stardock has an entire marketplace of icons you can choose from, or you can pick your own. Jumping into the customizability aspect, Start11 allows you to customize the Taskbar in new and unique ways too. It also brings back the ability to right-click the Taskbar to access the Task Manager and cascading windows options, two power user features that I'm sure many will be happy to hear has returned. I did find that the large taskbar size was a little buggy, though I think that's more on Windows' part than Stardock. It also brings back size options, once again allowing you to switch between small, medium, and large Taskbar sizes. Start11 also taps into the new Windows 11 Taskbar to bring back some Windows 10 functionality, including the ability to move the Taskbar back to the top of the display if that's something you prefer. Source: Windows Central (Image credit: Source: Windows Central)

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