Incl. Patch-Painter
Released : January 17, 2012
- Added rename support in the tree
- Added drag & drop including rearranging items in the all programs tree.
- Added feature : Folders pinned to the startmenu allow you to view the first X items as a jumplist
- Added opening Winkey+X menu option instead of start menu
- Added feature : Custom places locations. Add a Dropbox location for example.
- Additional language support
- Search box now allows %appdata% etc
- Improved go straight to desktop on login feature
- Added option to disable multiple monitor corner stickiness feature of Windows 8
- Added option to make right clicking the start button when at the bottom of the screen open the Win + X menu
- Added support for automatically checking for updates every week (control from About page)
- Added support for shell: link execution via search
- Right clicking on empty areas of the Start menu shows the Configure Start8 option.
- Modified custom places to support libraries
- Tweaked pin to start menu code
- Modified jumplist code to handle case of pinning an item resulting in the unpinned items disappearing sometimes
- Modified jumplist code to handle the case of pinned items not showing after clearing recent docs lists
- Tweaked jumplists code to handle jumplists not showing for all apps when recently opened programs option is disabled in the OS.
- Modified config UI to grey out the inactive start menu style.
- Tweak to resolve a rare race condition crash on guest account login.
- Modified code to make recently run apps list update directly after launches rather than after the next time the menu is closed.
- Menu key on keyboard now opens menu for selected search results.
- Additional workaround for slow recent apps list population due to Windows defender bug.
- Expanded the size of some UI elements to handle translations to more wordy languages
- Jump lists now respect the OS setting for the number of entries shown
- Shutdown button no longer ignores clicks if the mouse has moved
- Start menu lines now appear correctly even in higher dpi modes
- When at the bottom of the screen the startmenu no longer allocates space for one additional places list item
- Added option to make custom places appear at the top of the places list.
- Fixed issue with Putty and jumplist not showing blank entries which did not launch the right things
- Fixed issue with Live Photo Gallery not opening images up in preview mode
- Performance enhancements in the all programs tree to workaround a flaw in Windows Defender
- Resolved a problem with the start menu position when the taskbar was on the right and there is a docked app
- Send to sub menu now allowed on the tree right click menu.
- UI supports translation via lng files. See \lang\en.lng file for info
- When using the search box to view folders the performance is now improved
- Tweaks to search to reduce memory usage slightly
- Option to make places list entries take less room thus allowing more to show in less space
- Rearranging pinned shortcuts is now faster
- Places menus no longer select the first entry
- Recent items list no longer includes folders
- Deleting an item from the all programs list will delete it instantly from the tree vs waiting until the next refresh
- Tree now includes hidden items
- Added registry key option to hide tooltips in the startmenu. This is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8\HideTips =
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