Organize Your PC Desktop with Stardock's Fences 1.0

Published on October 6, 2009 By Island Dog In Elemental News

Stardock, the world leader in desktop customization, today released the highly anticipated version 1.0 of its popular and free desktop organization application, Fences. Fences is a one-of-a-kind program designed to organize the desktop by allowing users to customize how icons and files reside on the desktop based on user-defined preferences. Fences is the ultimate tool for those users who want to keep their PC desktop clear of clutter.

Fences works by allowing users to “draw” labeled shaded areas on the desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for any desktop icon. 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 users finally appreciate the wallpaper hiding behind a cluttered desktop.

In addition to its organizing features, Fences offers a quick-hide feature: Double click your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. Double click again, and they'll return.

Fences is free and can be downloaded here: https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/index.asp. Screenshots and demonstration videos are also provided.

System Requirements:

Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
On Vista and Windows 7, both 32bit and 64bit versions are supported.

Comments

Trigeminal

on Oct 06, 2009

Fences is the best program EVER!!! After installing it, I simply can't live without it, greaqt job SD!

Ynglaur

on Oct 06, 2009

Downloading now. This app is great. I want Fences in my Explorer panes.

Campaigner

on Oct 07, 2009

Is there any reason to use Fences if you use ObjectDock ?

Ynglaur

on Oct 08, 2009

It's mostly useful if you end up with lots of icons on your desktop. You can use it as a poor man's replacement, I guess, though you'd need to reduce to desktop to get at the icons.

I generally don't use my desktop to launch apps, but I use it as a holding tank for work in progress.

tesb

on Oct 08, 2009

i tried it and it is really great however i have a minor issue:

When i switch from a programm to the desktop (i.e. minimize my browser) and go over one fence which has a scrollbar i cant use my mouse wheel to scroll i have to click on the fence first.

When i am on the desktop it is just enough to go with my mouse over the fence and the mousewheel will work, although i did not klick on the fence first. Imho this should also apply after minimizing a application.

edit: when rebooting the system (winxp) there is short amount of time when fences isn´t initialised and the desktop is clutterd. is there a way to prevent this?

Ynglaur

on Oct 11, 2009

Re: scrolling: that's a great idea. Post it as a suggestion.

Re: WinXP booting: the closest you could do would be to manipulate the starting order of startup apps. I can't recall how to do it at the moment, but Google can probably find something. It won't be perfect though. In general, Windows likes displaying its desktop long before it's actually useable by anything.

joasoze

on Oct 30, 2009

I am trying the free version and its all good except that the fences are not properly resized when I use dockingstation and have two screens.

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