Fences Released!

 To Jeff for this one, Zu.

Not often a reputable corporation which sells really good software gives away a program which genuinely helps people achieve order on their cluttered windows desktop.

I don't know if the industry gives awards for this kind of thing, but someone at Stardock should notify PCMag about Fences.

Really.

I think Jeff deserves recognition for this project, and I just don't know how to do that beyond "Thank you very much, Jeff!".

Maybe a keg?

But yeah, Fences looks great. I'll be sure to give it a shot. Thanks!

iam a newly discovered fan of this feature.  its really practical. ive not had any problems with it. good going jeff bro

Looks awesome, wish it was as cool looking on XP.  If I had Vista or XP, I would get this today!!!  It's FREE!!!  Amazing work for a "side project".

Almost makes me wish I had icons on my desktop.

I feel exactly the same. I don't have any use for fences since I bought objectdock plus but I think it's great that Stardock has released this program and you can get for free no less!

Home run!!! Five minutes with Fences and I wonder how I ever did without it

Before Fences I'd create custom wallpaper that had boxes of color for all my projects.   It was useful . . but sucked.  This is so much better!

iam going to try and reachout to my friends , no doubt some of them need fences.. lets see how successful my mission will be.

I don't use my desktop for anything, but this looks interesting - will definitely have to give it a go

I switched out from Objectdock to Fnces as i really liked the end result i got with the program

My desktop with fences loaded.

I especially like the way the scroll bars dissapear unless you need them. Great for gouping programs with only the most commonyl used ones on show.

I do not use my desktop either... I like to look at my Aquarium 2009    However, I started putting some shortcuts in Fences to try it out, and it is way cool.  I can see how this would be very handy for people who use their desktop. And it is free!!  Way to go Jeff & Stardock!!

Yes I saw that... I have since loaded a bunch of fences.  This is great! double-click... everything I need... double click... disappeared.  Ingenious.

It would be awesome to be able to collapse a fence. I'm also interested... what will be included in the Fences Pro FeaturePack?

I'm using dual displays and I use UltraMon to handle a bunch of dual display settings. One problem I'm facing is that UltraMon sets a different desktop background for each monitor, but installing Fences seems to disable that.

Any work-arounds?

I'm having the same problem here. The moment I installed Fences the ability to set different backgrounds using UltraMon stopped working. After uninstalling Fences everything works fine again.

That worked flawlessly with the initial download, but the .037 update has a problem (here on XPP, anyway): the fences themselves hide with the double-click but icons within the fences remain visible on the desktop.  FYI Jeff.

Great idea & great little app.  If the suggestion box is open, though, I'd like the ability to adjust the font face & size of the fence titles.  Being able to 'skin' the fences would be even better (I know you can adjust the color & trans, etc., now).  Forgive me, but you know how we are - there are never 'enough' customization options.

You know it's easy to hide your desktop icons (in XP at least. I don't know about Vista). All you have to do is right-click your desktop, choose the 'Arrange Icons By...' option, then choose the 'Shw Desktop Icons'. Clicking on it once will hide all your icons. A second time will show them. I've been using this method for some time.

Granted, Fences is much slicker and allows you to arrange related groups of icons into a single fence though. And double clicking is faster and easier.

It doesn't matter when it was released. As soon as the idea is made public, anything coming after Pai Gow Poker can be considered a "clone". It doesn't necessarily mean that the developer has even seen the original software.Bumptop is a good example, there are numerous clones out there, and bumptop isn't released. All similar software (such as realdesktop) are still clones.

Been using this since a week or two after you released this.  Will never go without it again.  Thanks!!!

Just installed the update released yesterday (7-14-09) and my problem is still there - the fences themselves hide just fine with double-click on the desktop but the icons within the fences don't & stay visible on the desktop.

XPP SP2 on a Dell Vostro 1500 notebook, Core2 Duo 1.4Ghz with 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 185.85 drivers (most recent WHQL set).

There's not much unusual about my rig but here's the system info from WBConfig just in case:

It also happens that I have both a domain profile and a local-machine profile that I use to log on to this machine.

I was under the impression that it was supposed to do that, so you can clearly see your desktop. You can exclude something from quickhide, so it stays visable when you doubleclick.

The icons are supposed to 'hide' with the fence, but they don't here.  The fence itself hides but the icons within the fence are still sitting there on the desktop.