Fences icon issues

Icons poping out of fences mostly accelerated games.

from Stardock Forums

Well like the title of the thread says I've been having a problem off and on with Fences most of the time I've been using it since the BETA. I've just been to busy to post anything about it. Either way it's occurring on both of my machines and existed on Vista X64 Premium as well as Windows 7 Professional now.

Basically I use one fence on my desktop to house my game shortcuts and if I launch a game from there about 75% of the time the icon will be placed near the top of the screen out of the fence once I exit the game and return to the desktop. Easy fix to just toss the icon back into the fence but after doing this countless times it's getting more irritating;) Also wondering if I'm the only one getting this error or perhaps I'm just using the app differently than others. Either way it seems to occur with most any 3d games, for example Battlefield 2 seems to do it nearly every time, also Modern Warfare and most modern games repeat the same behavior.

Machine is as follows.

Q6600

6gb RAM

Windows 7 Pro

Couple TB of HDD

Ati 4890

 

Any questions or other info I can provide that would help you guys either eliminate this bug, or perhaps a workaround from anyone who has seen this bug would also be appreciated.

Thanks

 

Luke

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

This is pure speculation, but it may have something to do with the screen resolution changing when you launch the game.  A few questions:

What is your desktop screen resolution?
Do you typically play your games in this resolution?
Where is the fence you keep your shortcuts in located on the screen?
If you move the fence to the upper left corner, does it still happen?

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Also, is it specific icons that do every time, or just a random handful?

Offworld Trading Company
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

All I know is everytime I try to empty my recycle bin it falls off the fence, at which time I move it back.  PITA.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting GibMonkey, reply 3
All I know is everytime I try to empty my recycle bin it falls off the fence, at which time I move it back.  PITA.
End of GibMonkey's quote

Haven't heard this one before...  Please possess patience, while I poke the proper people posthaste (per procedure), plus possibly post present program progress.  Alliteration FTW!

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thought I'd chime in here as I'm dealing with the same issue. 

I just got a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit computer.  Installed Fences Pro and set up about 7 fences (not at home right now so don't recall exact number).  I have a dual monitor set up and two of the fences are on the primary monitor with the others on the secondary monitor.  Whenever I open up World of Warcraft one icon from each fence on the primary monitor leaves the fence and moves to the left portion of the monitor.  I've got an object dock on the left edge of the primary monitor and the icons show up just to the right of the dock.

It is always the same icon every time (I think that it may be the icon in the upper right corner from both).  None of the icons on the secondary monitor leave their fences after opening up the game.