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Fences - STOP icons from auto-arranging

By Rmart on December 28, 2010 9:18:21 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Rmart

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I have the Sort Fence option set to none and yet every time I try to reposition an icon within a fence they don't stick where I want them. If I have a dozen icons within a fence and I want one or two icons to remain next to each other, it seems like every time I move one icon to where I want it to go, the others all change their order. They seem to want to be in a topdown order any time the fence has multiple columns. So, if I want to take an icon and place it next to another one, everything below it rearranges. It's almost like a puzzle.

Is there a way to position each icon in the order I want without the others moving about to try to maintain a fill pattern?

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Dewie
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January 4, 2011 10:06:54 AM from Stardock Forums Stardock Forums

Unfortunately, fences will always auto-arrange icons, which is by design. There is currently no way to lock an icon to an absolute position.

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cgregory
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March 18, 2012 3:22:46 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

This is unbelievable!  How could you possibly not allow the user to place icons where they want them?  Why do you think someone would use a product like this in the first place?  All Fences does is trade mangling of desktop icon arrangements by Windows for mangling of them by Fences.  But now the mangling is in little boxes.  That's no improvement over Windows at all. Your product is useless.

You were so close to having a nice product that I would gladly buy, but due to your boneheaded design, I'll be uninstalling it now.  You survived a total of 15 minutes.


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Zubaz
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March 18, 2012 3:35:24 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

The Pro version lets you arrange bu name, date, size, how often it's used or jsut dragging into the order you want.

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pmsmallwood
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April 1, 2013 12:02:13 PM from Stardock Forums Stardock Forums

I have Fences 2.0 which is supposed to be an upgrade from Pro and I can't stop icons from zipping all over the place as they please. This is hugely annoying. I used to think I was going to love this product, but I've done a 180 on it because of the "auto-arrange" problem.

I sure hope this can be fixed in a future version update.

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pganter
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May 3, 2013 7:34:29 PM from Stardock Forums Stardock Forums

I am a registered user and this is a very annoying feature omission that will probably lead me to not upgrading or renewing in the future. It gets worse when I try to move an icon to the start of a box and it shoots off the screen and the whole screen goes nuts. (Hopefully this behavior has been fixed in the version 2.10 upgrade I just applied.)

I don't know how you could have missed such an obvious feature - looks like manager intrusion to me, PHM-style:).

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