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Fences Released!

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Fences Released!

https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
from JoeUser Forums

I love Fences!

 

Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer's desktop, solving the "constant mess" problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception.

Fences also helps you finally appreciate the wallpaper you have hiding behind all of 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. Double click again, and they'll return.

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.
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There is an option ti exclude icond form being hidden.  Does this happen with some icons or all?

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

ti exclude icond form
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

"to exclude icons from"

/me tries to wake up

Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top

Happens to all icons.  I've not set any to be 'excluded from being hidden'.

Reply #30 from Sins Forums Top

The "Exclude from being hidden" option shows up when you right-click on an icon.  I used it to make sure My Computer an My Documents always stay active.  You can use this option on individual icons within a fence as well. 

It's very possible that you selected the icons and clicked the option without realizing it (add another icon to test this).  It's probably equally likely that the option is somehow the default setting on your computer somehow - maybe an XP Pro issue.

Good luck.  I'd offer more specific help, but I'm at work and don't have Fences on this machine.

Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top

It's very possible that you selected the icons and clicked the option without realizing it (add another icon to test this).
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No, that didn't happen, I'm afraid.  It's a toggle in the context menu for the icons and none of them have the 'Exclude from being hidden' menu item checked - it is unchecked by default.

It's probably equally likely that the option is somehow the default setting on your computer somehow
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This seems more plausible, but I can't find a global 'exclude' setting within Fences and logic would dictate that if there were one and it was indeed enabled the 'Exclude from being hidden' context menu item would be checked when the menu was invoked.

Interestingly, the very first version released to us by Stardock worked exactly as advertised on my machine & did not have this problem.  Within about 24 hours of that first Fences beta release, as I recall, an updated version was posted and this problem occurred when I installed that 'second' version.  It has persisted with all updates since.

Reply #32 from Stardock Forums Top

I too have seen this on windows 7rc. Cept the fences are invisable.

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I finally tried Fences and I LOVE it!  It's not so much the fenced groupings as the ability to make all that mess disappear and reappear at a double click.  Thanks so much Stardock