Fences Released!

Published on February 4, 2009 By ZubaZ In Personal Computing

I love Fences!

Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer's desktop, solving the "constant mess" problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception.

Fences also helps you finally appreciate the wallpaper you have hiding behind all of that clutter.
In addition to its organizing features, Fences offers a novel quick-hide feature (in-patenting-process). Double click your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. Double click again, and they'll return.

Comments (Page 3)

Daiwa

on Jul 16, 2009

It's very possible that you selected the icons and clicked the option without realizing it (add another icon to test this).

No, that didn't happen, I'm afraid. It's a toggle in the context menu for the icons and none of them have the 'Exclude from being hidden' menu item checked - it is unchecked by default.

It's probably equally likely that the option is somehow the default setting on your computer somehow

This seems more plausible, but I can't find a global 'exclude' setting within Fences and logic would dictate that if there were one and it was indeed enabled the 'Exclude from being hidden' context menu item would be checked when the menu was invoked.

Interestingly, the very first version released to us by Stardock worked exactly as advertised on my machine & did not have this problem. Within about 24 hours of that first Fences beta release, as I recall, an updated version was posted and this problem occurred when I installed that 'second' version. It has persisted with all updates since.

Goelm

on Jul 16, 2009

I too have seen this on windows 7rc. Cept the fences are invisable.

CCdeQueen

on Jul 25, 2009

I finally tried Fences and I LOVE it! It's not so much the fenced groupings as the ability to make all that mess disappear and reappear at a double click. Thanks so much Stardock

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