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Start Is Back - 2.1 release best native start menu experience - now even better

#1021 User is offline   Amigafever 

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 04:53 PM

Thanks for the update. The new installer caused most tray icons of running applications (security software, Yahoo Messenger etc.) to disappear. Sign out/in was necessary to get everything back. Tested on Win 8 x86.

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 04:57 PM

View PostAmigafever, on 05 December 2012 - 04:53 PM, said:

Thanks for the update. The new installer caused most tray icons of running applications (security software, Yahoo Messenger etc.) to disappear. Sign out/in was necessary to get everything back. Tested on Win 8 x86.


Not duplicated here, everything came back to my surprise. Windows 8 Enterprise x64

Thanks Tihiy for the update!

Edit: FYI this was an upgrade from v1.2 RC 2.

This post has been edited by roirraW "edor" ehT: 05 December 2012 - 07:36 PM


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Posted 05 December 2012 - 05:04 PM

IE 10 doesn't seem to like it. Tried on 3 different machines. You can still install it, it just complains about it.

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#1024 User is online   Tihiy 

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 05:09 PM

View PostISOHaven, on 05 December 2012 - 05:04 PM, said:

IE 10 doesn't seem to like it. Tried on 3 different machines. You can still install it, it just complains about it.
Could be because timestamp is not valid yet for your time zone or your clock is set up wrong. Retry in 8 hours?

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 05:12 PM

View PostTihiy, on 05 December 2012 - 05:09 PM, said:

View PostISOHaven, on 05 December 2012 - 05:04 PM, said:

IE 10 doesn't seem to like it. Tried on 3 different machines. You can still install it, it just complains about it.
Could be because timestamp is not valid yet for your time zone or your clock is set up wrong. Retry in 8 hours?

Time and date are fine. I'll try again tomorrow.

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 07:18 PM

@Tihiy

Fantastic work. Serbian translation is recognized, I just tested. And thanks for the licence. I'm willing to continue to update translation whenever you need it, so you can put me on some mailing list for that.

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 12:07 AM

View PostTihiy, on 05 December 2012 - 04:31 PM, said:

VERSION 1.2 RELEASE

Changes over 1.2RC2:

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- Fixed: hibernate shutdown option could fail to show in configurator
- Fixed: high contast themes start menu issues
- Fixed: popping combined start screen / button menu shifts cursor position
- New: Control Panel shortcut for Start menu configuration
- Updated AeroByDesign style
- Installing for all users no longer requires log off



thanks for the new version :thumbup

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 01:16 AM

Thanks for the update mate, nice work fixing the High Contrast themes as well, I like that you can still have one of the custom start menus with HC as well, great work mate :)

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 03:47 AM

Fantastic release, I see an issue though. :)

Using the new AeroByDesign, I find that the User Picture no longer overlaps the top-right-hand-side hemisphere of StartIsBack - aesthetically, that sucks (to me - also deviates from the original.) No settings were changed between 1.2 RC2 and 1.2.



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Posted 06 December 2012 - 04:21 AM

View PostStarto, on 06 December 2012 - 03:47 AM, said:

Fantastic release, I see an issue though. :)

Using the new AeroByDesign, I find that the User Picture no longer overlaps the top-right-hand-side hemisphere of StartIsBack - aesthetically, that sucks (to me - also deviates from the original.) No settings were changed between 1.2 RC2 and 1.2.



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Seems fine here, checked with default theme and my Aero 8 theme

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 04:42 AM

Yep. it's back to normal for me, too - had to just restart the Explorer. ;)

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 05:03 AM

Silent installation for v1.2 works with /silent or /elevated /silent, but, in both cases I've got the purple screen after log on and explorer.exe process it's not working , so I need to start task manager first.
I wonder if it's possible to add another switch to silent installation like /nologoff or /norestart, because it's usefull when we install drivers or programs at first boot with setupcomplete.cmd. Another switch to insert the serial number will be great, so we can click only the Activate button after restart, or application can attempt itself to activate when the machine is online.
Thanks!

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 05:31 AM

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User Picture no longer overlaps the top-right-hand-side hemisphere of StartIsBack
Not sure if it's a regression, but will fix this. As a workaround, move taskbar to other side and back to bottom.

View Postradix, on 06 December 2012 - 05:03 AM, said:

Silent installation for v1.2 works with /silent or /elevated /silent, but, in both cases I've got the purple screen after log on and explorer.exe process it's not working , so I need to start task manager first.

You must add a command to start explorer.exe, that should be it.

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 07:34 AM

View PostTihiy, on 06 December 2012 - 05:31 AM, said:

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User Picture no longer overlaps the top-right-hand-side hemisphere of StartIsBack
Not sure if it's a regression, but will fix this. As a workaround, move taskbar to other side and back to bottom.

Hey, the problem is back!!! :P

Had switched off the system for an hour and upon powering it on, the User Picture was mucked again. :(

However, it reverts back to normal as soon as the Explorer is restarted.


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Posted 06 December 2012 - 07:59 AM

I have a little suggestion for better visuals - please note, not trying to get into any comparisons, here.

Can we have the following 2 components, more opaque:-

  • The Frame around the User Picture and
  • The Background of the User Picture.

Check out the following figure, it illustrates how fabulous StartIsBack would look:- :whistle:


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Posted 06 December 2012 - 08:54 AM

If you want, you can create user frame suitable for dark themes. You need to reshack bitmaps in AeroByDesign.msstyles.
I'll try to improve them.

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 09:00 AM

View PostTihiy, on 06 December 2012 - 08:54 AM, said:

If you want, you can create user frame suitable for dark themes. You need to reshack bitmaps in AeroByDesign.msstyles.
I'll try to improve them.

Ah, that would be really awesome - thank you!!! :)


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Posted 06 December 2012 - 03:17 PM

1.2.1 is up with fix for user frame, minor but annoying, sorry for updating often :blushing:

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 03:32 PM

View PostTihiy, on 06 December 2012 - 03:17 PM, said:

1.2.1 is up with fix for user frame, minor but annoying, sorry for updating often :blushing:

Please don't ever apologize for that! Updating often is 100 times better then updating hardly ever. :thumbup

Also, no more issues downloading with IE10.

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Posted 06 December 2012 - 03:52 PM

up-moving start-orb Bug and don't highlight new installed programs Bug, are still present.

Too Bad. :}

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