Using Rules in Fences Pro to Organize Desktop Icons

Published on November 11, 2009 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

As one of the people who talks the most about Fences, I found it a bit funny and ironic that when I turned on my desktop PC this morning, I realized my desktop was cluttered with icons. I didn’t mean for it to happen, but I downloaded some application files, some content files, then I needed to update a DesktopX gadget, so I needed to grab some of those files. Before I knew it, the desktop was full of icons.

I fired up Fences Pro, and within just a few minutes I had several Fences put up and all icons placed accordingly. To avoid this problem in the future, I’m going to setup rules in Fences, which is a features in Fences Pro.

Setting up rules will allow you to place new or current icons into their own Fence based on a certain criteria. For example, any image files will have their icons placed into a Fence of your choosing. The same goes for document types, links, icons by name, etc. This will pretty much automate your icon organization going forward which could very well prevent the clutter that built up on my desktop.

So now I have a clean desktop again!

Fences is a free download, and you can find more info at https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/. Fences Pro is currently in beta for Object Desktop subscribers which you can get access to now by subscribing.

Comments

ZubaZ

on Nov 11, 2009

I have always had the habit of naming fiels based on projects; like FencesPro_buglist.xls. I have rules set up now that look for the prefix and sort according to that.

I also have sorting turned on for most of my fences that moe the files I used the most to the top of the fence. That makes finding what I need the most super easy.

RomanDA

on Nov 11, 2009

Fences is great. just loaded pro, and played with the rules.. need to look at them closer, like if there was a way to monitor a folder (ie: my downloads folder), and show that in a fence? Its a great program, getting better! and zu... you need to move from a grass desktop (moe? or mow?) or maybe thats Larry Moe and Curly.. wonder what one i am..

my fences that moe the files

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