Desktop organizer that lets you arrange your icons in highly configurable containers.
Paid • Proprietary
Windows
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What is Fences?
Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable and resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computers desktop, solving the "constant mess" problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception.
- Impulse must be installed in order to download and update Fences. - No multilanguage support.
Fences also helps you finally appreciate the wallpaper you have hiding behind all that clutter. In addition to its organizing features, Fences offers a novel quick-hide feature (in-patenting-process). Double click your desktop, and all your icons will fade out.
• Top positive commentover 10 years ago • 0 replies
This is a must have program for Windows users. I've been looking for something like this since ever! Simple as it looks it has increased my productivity a lot, now I can organize the files for each of the project I'm running and keep them at the same position even when switching between screen resolutions or between screens when I plug an extra monitor. I can't believe Microsoft never thought of this!!
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• Top positive commentalmost 11 years ago • 0 replies
Wow, this is really nice for my general-use workstation, which is littered with desktop icons. It was quick to set up, and just took a little time to sort through all the stuff I had accumulated over the last three years.
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• Top negative comment8 months ago • 0 replies
Like every other Stardock program I've tried, this was half-baked. Great ideas with mostly good implementation, but too many issues, missing too many things, lousy support, and overpriced considering all that. Spent/wasted far too much time on it.
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• Positive comment • 8 months ago • 0 replies
Good for organizing your desktop icons and, most importantly, keeping them organized. Unfortunately, Fences suffers from poor performance (low frame rate) even on high-end systems. It would be great to get some proper hardware acceleration for dragging, dropping, resizing, and page switching to smooth out the animations. Aside form that minor issue, Fences is super useful.
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• Review • over 3 years ago • 0 replies
I bought three or four copies and did updates but I always run into problems with it disappearing or hanging etc. so I have given up. I use DesktopOK now which is simpler but works well.
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• Review • almost 4 years ago • 1 reply
Had it installed on my family members PC and helped do all his IT maintenance over several years
I likes it at first... but now not so much. It doesnt play nice with WIN +D close all programs shortcut. Its also too much maintenance for me. I personally use directoryopus as a complete replacement and much more
orlydb
I think you got the wrong application...
Reply written almost 4 years ago
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I used it for several years and installed it on some buddy's PC (note I had to pay $10 for each PC liscense at time)
The problem I have with it is that it set bad practices for file navigation as a whole.
Since I have all of these rules I set up on stardock that don't really reflect what my fileexplorer looks like
This leads to (at least for me) sometimes confusion on how I am navigating through my files / docs on my PC
Also, when stardock fences crashes its always a huge pain in the ### to fix the problem
Personally I suggest using something like directoryopus instead Directory Opus , even though its not same type of app, does similar job
This is a must have program for Windows users. I've been looking for something like this since ever! Simple as it looks it has increased my productivity a lot, now I can organize the files for each of the project I'm running and keep them at the same position even when switching between screen resolutions or between screens when I plug an extra monitor. I can't believe Microsoft never thought of this!!
Wow, this is really nice for my general-use workstation, which is littered with desktop icons. It was quick to set up, and just took a little time to sort through all the stuff I had accumulated over the last three years.
Like every other Stardock program I've tried, this was half-baked. Great ideas with mostly good implementation, but too many issues, missing too many things, lousy support, and overpriced considering all that. Spent/wasted far too much time on it.
Good for organizing your desktop icons and, most importantly, keeping them organized. Unfortunately, Fences suffers from poor performance (low frame rate) even on high-end systems. It would be great to get some proper hardware acceleration for dragging, dropping, resizing, and page switching to smooth out the animations. Aside form that minor issue, Fences is super useful.
I bought three or four copies and did updates but I always run into problems with it disappearing or hanging etc. so I have given up. I use DesktopOK now which is simpler but works well.
Had it installed on my family members PC and helped do all his IT maintenance over several years
I likes it at first... but now not so much. It doesnt play nice with WIN +D close all programs shortcut. Its also too much maintenance for me. I personally use directoryopus as a complete replacement and much more
I think you got the wrong application...
Reply written almost 4 years ago
I used it for several years and installed it on some buddy's PC (note I had to pay $10 for each PC liscense at time)
The problem I have with it is that it set bad practices for file navigation as a whole.
Since I have all of these rules I set up on stardock that don't really reflect what my fileexplorer looks like
This leads to (at least for me) sometimes confusion on how I am navigating through my files / docs on my PC
Also, when stardock fences crashes its always a huge pain in the ### to fix the problem
Personally I suggest using something like directoryopus instead Directory Opus , even though its not same type of app, does similar job