Fences Pro Updated to v1.1

Published on November 30, 2010 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Fences is the widely popular application from Stardock that helps you wrangle up those icons spread out all over your desktop. The v1.1 update for Fences Pro is out today with various fixes and improvements.

Added ability to toggle hidden fences at startup
Added "Hide shortcut arrows on desktop icons" to Appearance tab
Reliability improvements based on user feedback
Numerous small UI tweaks
Improved multimonitor support
Icons no longer have risk of falling out of their fence on F5 and/or monitor resize
Fixed flicker when moving a fence behind the taskbar on Win7
Fixed issue where new icons could become "stranded" until interacted with, particularly on XP
Fixed issue where moving Fences beneath the bottom of the screen exhibited odd behavior
Improved "Disable Fences" functionality
Fences now "come to the front" when moved. Fixes behavior where you could move a Fence behind another and then lose access to it.

Current users can update via Impulse. More information about Fences can be found at its website.

https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/index.asp

Comments (Page 1)

DrJBHL

on Nov 30, 2010

There seems to be a problem downloading this update, I.D. I get an error message.

*edit: Fixed with Rosco's help.

The fix was 1. Hide the update. 2. Unhide and run the update.

skyzyk

on Nov 30, 2010

DrJBHL

comment 1

There seems to be a problem downloading this update, I.D. I get an error message.

Doc I had the same problem. I closed Impulse and restarted and I was able to aplly the update. Very nice ID

skyzyk

on Nov 30, 2010

I may have been a little too hasty. It doesn't seem to recognize the update and keeps wanting to update. When in Impulse it says v1.1.0.348 and IIn Fences Config it says v1.1.0.375. I've applied the update 3 times now and restarted as many times and the problem remains.. Ooops!

ALMonty

on Nov 30, 2010

YEA!!! Finally the option to hide the shortcut arrows on the desktop. I thought this would be something for IP.

Xiandi

on Nov 30, 2010

The fix was 1. Hide the update. 2. Unhide and run the update.

That didnt work for me

RedneckDude

on Nov 30, 2010

Tells me there's a problem archiving installed application, please restart Impulse and try again, and again, and.....

Philly0381

on Nov 30, 2010

Xiandi did you try resetting data under Preferences in Impulse?

RedneckDude

on Nov 30, 2010

No...why didn't you suggest that in Skype? lol

DrJBHL

on Nov 30, 2010

Xiandi

reply 5

The fix was 1. Hide the update. 2. Unhide and run the update. That didnt work for me

Philly0381

reply 7

Xiandi did you try resetting data under Preferences in Impulse?

I tried that and it didn't help. Then I hid the update, closed and restarted Impulse and unhid the update. Then I installed it without problems. Try that Cindy.

Xiandi

on Nov 30, 2010

I tried that and it didn't help. Then I hid the update, closed and restarted Impulse and unhid the update. Then I installed it without problems. Try that Cindy

nope, didnt work.

Here is a thought....maybe someone at stardock should fix it, we should not have to jump through hoops just to get an update.

RedneckDude

on Nov 30, 2010

Xiandi

reply 10

I tried that and it didn't help. Then I hid the update, closed and restarted Impulse and unhid the update. Then I installed it without problems. Try that Cindynope, didnt work.

Here is a thought....maybe someone at stardock should fix it, we should not have to jump through hoops just to get an update.

4K for the soothsayer!!

The1Warlock

on Nov 30, 2010

I agree they should fix it!

Here is how I got it to install. Go to Preferences - Archive & Install, then Uncheck "Archive Applications before updating". It installed after that.

Philly0381

on Nov 30, 2010

I had no problem installing on a Win 7 64bit system, but then I don't use the archive function, which from what folks are saying is where the problem seems to be.

chillychan

on Dec 01, 2010

An alternative is to uninstall Fences from Impulse (Choose to keep your settings and backups when asked) and then install the new version. The downside is you have to reboot 2 times (when uninstalling and re-installing). The new version doesn't have problems with archiving though.

RedneckDude

on Dec 02, 2010

I just turned off archiving, installed, and turned it back on.

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