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Jbennett360 · May 11, 2024

Few weird goings on with Google and the startallback and startisback site. Flagging them as being dangerous

Edwin · May 11, 2024

Jbennett360 said:
Few weird goings on with Google and the startallback and startisback site. Flagging them as being dangerous

Everybody's gettin anal about security!

Jbennett360 · May 11, 2024

Edwin said:
Everybody's gettin anal about security!

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Yep. He's posted about it on twitter.

Edwin · May 11, 2024

Jbennett360 said:
Yep. He's posted about it on twitter.

MS probably told Google to do it!

Kees · May 14, 2024

Jbennett360 said:
Few weird goings on with Google and the startallback and startisback site. Flagging them as being dangerous

The block that Google put over the site of StartAllBack (and thus Chrome, Firefox and other browsers followed that block) has been lifted. It is available again.

This screenshot was taken a few moments ago in Firefox:

scorpioncherry · May 15, 2024

Confirming the above. Over the weekend I was getting red flags, all good today. Didn't take that long.

Wolfzz · May 29, 2024

StartAllBack 3.7.10.4910 28 May 2024 (stable)

- 24H2: Control Center repositioning

- Fixed old RTL issues

- Fixed no Search tab on tabbed Ribbon

- Disabled newer weather animated icons

Check for Updates

Edwin · May 29, 2024

keewee23 · Jun 1, 2024

Hi, have problems with startallback, suddenly started to lag, when i close any open windows on desktop, file explorer, brave, chrome, anything, everything on taskbar is unclickable for 2-3 seconds and start button, after 2-3 seconds everything is normal. I turned off startallback, restarted and everything works fine without lag, so it's not problem with windows. Or perhaps some issue with newest, latest update for win 11. Thanks

EDIT: After trying to figure it out in startallback settings, i narrow it down to dynamic transparency in taskbar category. If turned on, there's a a lag, if turned off, no lag everything works. Hope i helped and hope it will be fixed in future.

james28909 · Jun 2, 2024

is it possible to change the line spacing in explorer? like how close each entry (files and folders) are to each other?

Kees · Jun 2, 2024

That can be done by activating 'Compact View' in File Explorer.
You'll find a tutorial for that here:

Turn On or Off Compact View in File Explorer in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off compact view in File Explorer for your account in Windows 11. If you feel File Explorer has too much space between items, you can turn on compact view to decrease space between items in File Explorer. If you have a tablet, convertible, or...

www.elevenforum.com

And yes, even with compact view line spacing is rather big.
Third-party File Browsers often have smaller distances.

In StartAllBack I found no option to change this spacing for File Explorer.

LesFerch · Jun 2, 2024

james28909 said:
is it possible to change the line spacing in explorer? like how close each entry (files and folders) are to each other?

Legacy spacing (aka Windows Vista spacing) is tighter than Compact View. It's set via FFlags registry entries and is a prerequisite for disabling full row select, so you typically find it by searching for that feature.

Note: Legacy spacing is NOT compatible with dark mode (you will get black text on a dark background).

It's also a pain to get the registry entries correct because you have to set a view mode along with with the correct fflags values.

But you can set it easily using WinSetView. It includes a checkbox to enable/disable legacy spacing. Here's a comparison:

Compact View:

Legacy spacing:

james28909 · Jun 2, 2024

Kees said:
That can be done by activating 'Compact View' in File Explorer.
You'll find a tutorial for that here:

Turn On or Off Compact View in File Explorer in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off compact view in File Explorer for your account in Windows 11. If you feel File Explorer has too much space between items, you can turn on compact view to decrease space between items in File Explorer. If you have a tablet, convertible, or...

www.elevenforum.com

And yes, even with compact view line spacing is rather big.
Third-party File Browsers often have smaller distances.

In StartAllBack I found no option to change this spacing for File Explorer.

i already know this. what i am asking is there a way we can input our own value instead of selecting or deselecting compact view. so instead of compact view, i would like the ability to change it to a custom value.

james28909 · Jun 2, 2024

LesFerch said:
Legacy spacing (aka Windows Vista spacing) is tighter than Compact View. It's set via FFlags registry entries and is a prerequisite for disabling full row select, so you typically find it by searching for that feature.

Note: Legacy spacing is NOT compatible with dark mode (you will get black text on a dark background).

It's also a pain to get the registry entries correct because you have to set a view mode along with with the correct fflags values.

But you can set it easily using WinSetView. It includes a checkbox to enable/disable legacy spacing. Here's a comparison:

Compact View:
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Legacy spacing:
View attachment 98078

i will try and report back. it would be nice to be able to custoimize the list on the left (navigation pane) as well. on my windows it looks hideous. and some items i cannot remove from quick access.

it seems like a lot of work, but it would be great if these trwo thin gs could be added to startallback. i would gladly donate a chunck of change for those features

james28909 · Jun 2, 2024

with winsetview when i enable compact view, the navigation pane line spacing doubles or triples. so file explorer is nice and tight but navigation pane is much to wide line spacing.

edit: actually, this behavior exists even without using winsetview. when i select compact view for explorer, the navigation pane line spacing doubles or triples. crazy...

LesFerch · Jun 2, 2024

james28909 said:
with winsetview when i enable compact view, the navigation pane line spacing doubles or triples. so file explorer is nice and tight but navigation pane is much to wide line spacing

I have never seen that issue whether "compact view" or "legacy row and icon spacing" is enabled. The Navigation pane spacing is always the same for me. I'm not even aware of any setting that changes the Navigation pane spacing.

Can you test again with a different local user account?

james28909 · Jun 2, 2024

also i dont see legacy spacing in winsetview anywhere. i will def try on a new user account

LesFerch · Jun 2, 2024

james28909 said:
also i dont see legacy spacing in winsetview anywhere.

Options page in version 2.90 or higher:

isaL · Jun 3, 2024

they mean it, explorer refuse to open with startallback installed now

OverDose · Jun 4, 2024

Hi,

I'm running Windows 11 (23H2) Build 22631.3593, and have also been running StartAllBack purely to get QTTabbar (v2048 Beta2) to run with the tabs and functionality offered by QTTabbar on the latest version of Windows. All has been working fine for several months now, where the Windows 11 tabs and QTTabbar tabs work side-by-side, but using QTTB's tabs more than anything.

After the latest StartAllBack (v3.7.10) update, there is a weird issue that happens with the QTTabbar tabs, where they'll load properly on first launch, but as soon as I lock my Windows screen, or my PC goes to sleep, when I get back into the desktop, the tabs are not visible. I've shared two screenshots of the issue as before and after. It appears as if the QTTabbar tabs get pushed to the right and disappear from the tabs pane. When I then close the Windows Explorer window, the tabs close one by one as if they were stacked behind each other, but the tabs don't display.

Tabs Displaying Correctly:

Tabs Displaying Incorrectly:

Before anyone asks, I have tried uninstalling and clearing my registry of both apps, but this issue persists. I tried reverting to a previous version of StartAllBack but seemingly it automatically updates to the latest version during installation. None of these have helped.

Is there a way to revert to how everything worked before the latest update? Or is there a setting in StartAllBack that fixes this behaviour?

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