Fences AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Shell Extensions
The best Shell Extension alternative to Fences is Portals: Desktop Organization, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Fences and five of them are Shell Extensions so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Shell Extension alternatives to Fences are Sideslide, Nimi Places, Coodesker and xBar for Windows.
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Fences alternatives are mainly Desktop Customization Tools but may also be Application Launchers or Shell Extensions. Other popular filters includes Windows + Free. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Fences.- Desktop Customization Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
12 Portals: Desktop Organization alternativesCreate containers (aka Portals) on your desktop which show the contents of a specified folder. Divide your desktop into folders then use Portals to display the contents of the folders in an organized fashion - you can even hide the folders away somewhere else.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Windows
Portals: Desktop Organization VS Fences
Comments about Portals: Desktop Organization as an Alternative to Fences
Free and beautiful. A must have.
21 Sideslide alternativesSideSlide is an advanced, portable, unobtrusive, dockable, skinnable, instantly accessible, highly configurable Desktop Extension on Steroids! Clean desktop clutter and make your computer friendlier and faster than ever before.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Windows
Sideslide Features
Sideslide VS Fences
Comments about Sideslide as an Alternative to Fences
Most Recent CommentVery full featured program with a steep learning curve, but it's worth it.
Because it's not similar and easy to use like Fences that is a very intuitive application
It's a very comprehensive program with lots of features that can change the way you work with Windows.
16 Nimi Places alternativesOrganizes desktop into customizable containers - showing folders (e.g.: local folders, network locations) contents, displayed as icons/thumbnails on scrollable surface. In-built thumbnail engine is capable of displaying thumbnails for supported Open Documents and PSD images, but...
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- Free Personal • Proprietary
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- Windows
Nimi Places VS Fences
Comments about Nimi Places as an Alternative to Fences
Top Positive CommentFree, and it works almost the same. Just has a little more setup than Fences does.
Top Negative CommentThis performs ONE of Fences' secondary functions: displaying the contents of directories OTHER THAN the Desktop as virtual containers on the Desktop. IT IS NOT for organizing Desktop icons/files or setting up automatic rules for categorization of new Desktop icons/files.
Most Recent CommentNimi Places is not an exact replica of Fences, but(!) it will give you the look and feel. Instead of everything being on your desktop, it links it a folder. I am just going to change my behavior a tad and just know that my files, when placed in the fence, are not stored on the actual desktop. I still have easy access to move the files between the desktop to fence and vice versa, which is most important to me.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Windows
Coodesker Features
Coodesker VS Fences
Comments about Coodesker as an Alternative to Fences
phantasmrevolutionaryby far the best alternative to Stardock Fences, better even than Stardock Fences itself.
1 xBar for Windows alternativesA Central Hub for User-Categorized Shortcuts to Apps, Files & Folders, Quick Access to Drives & System Folders with PC Info & Resource Monitoring Dashboards and One-Click Access to Common Windows Operations.
xBar for Windows VS Fences
It looks like windows native.