Fences crashes constantly. Explorer error

Fences has detected that explorere was not closed properly..... In the eventvwr, event:

Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 10.0.19041.1202, time stamp: 0xdba1e981

Faulting module name: DesktopDock64.dll, version: 3.1.3.3, time stamp: 0x61081edf

Exception code: 0xc0000409

Fault offset: 0x0000000000024434

Faulting process id: 0x56c0

Faulting application start time: 0x01d7b9fee6ab9e28

Any help would be appreciated. I am getting frustrated.

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AzDude

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Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having issues.

Would you please try updating Windows to it's latest version

Reboot , test and report back here please ..

AzDude
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Windows is at 21h1 - 19043.1237 - install on 9.26.21 no problems after install. no updates since (except defender).

Rebooting did not help.

It was working last week.

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Looks like there is a cummulative update from microsoft.com (usually we point to our SUS).

I will install and let you know.

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Updates fixed nothing. It looks like there are more people experiencing my problem.

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Looks like MS did a kind of "pre-upgrade" in Windows 10 to get machines ready for Win 11.

I upgraded to Win 11 yesterday and Desktop constantly crashes untill Fences is disabled.
Then everything works fine.

Might be that same issue in Win 10, but cannot confirm it now, so try disabling Fences and see if everything runs fine.
If that works, then the Stardock team best get going with the updates...

And if the Stardock team read this, I am more than will to help beta test Fences if needed.
Really need it back ASAP.

Thanks in advance.

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I uninstalled, and purged fences, then rebooted, reinstalled, and went through he task of redoing the desktop.

It seems to work now. I am only willing to do this once. Then, I'm out. I have a mixed relationship with stardock's tools. The ObjectDock is the only one I've consistently used over the years.

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