What's new in StartIsBack+ 1.5 Final
New features for everyone:
- Adjust transparency level and color of start menu
- Adjust transparency level and color of taskbar
- Customize Start Apps folder icon / hide it
- Multi-column menus for items on right hand side
- Better start menu scaling on high dpi displays (proportions don't get blown off)
New features for multi-monitor users:
- Option to hide start button separately on primary and secondary monitors
- Option to open start menu / start screen on active monitor
- Option to open Start screen on secondary monitor at logon
- Improved DisplayFusion compatibility
New features for those who don't frequently need start menu:
- Enable bottom-left screen corner to use original Windows 8 start button (when taskbar is on bottom side)
Start menu won't be loaded into memory
You can still open start menu when you need it with mouse wheel click or swipe up gesture (on touchscreen)
Other changes:
- Updated Aero8 style
- StartIsBack upgrade no longer may require reboot / uninstall
- Modern apps are not shown in search if neither modern recent apps nor folder are displayed
- Choosing properties on open start menu jumplist invokes jumplist properties
- If XP style all programs is used, arrow is on the right
- Romanian translation
- Improved start menu performance
- Improved Directory Opus compatibility
- Improved 7+ Taskbar Numberer compatibility
- ‘When I hold Windows key – Show Everything at once’ rearchitected:
Windows key holding is tracked in elevated apps (requires all users installation)
runs a separate process (StartScreen.exe) when enabled
Fixes:
- Windows 8.1 system bug: searching in File Explorer search box may make input language vanish [sic!]
- Start menu hover color not respected in styles
- AeroLite theme ugly separators
- Uninstaller leaving empty keys in registry
- Custom folders configuration issues
- JwEnablePrivilege exception on rare systems
- If start button is hidden, bottom-left hot corner tip was cropped
- Crash when rapidly changing themes
- Program didn't work in safe mode even when enabled
