Fences has hijacked my desktop...

Goodbye left-click drag, goodbye icons, goodbye patience

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Hi all, has anyone seen this problem before?  I turn my laptop on today and there's no desktop icons.  I thought that fences was maybe running in hidden mode - a double-click on my desktop shows this is not so, fences is still installed, but I have no desktop icons (even after removing/adding them back in via Personalize (this is on Vista)), no left-click drag, the fences process isn't running, and no way of getting my desktop back to how it should be.  Impulse and every stardock app has been uninstalled - still no joy.  I'm pretty miffed off about this. I've been using fences for about three months without any problem, and then today comes along and I have no desktop.  I'll be damned if I'm going to reinstall windows just because of a third party desktop mod can't keep it together XO

Any help or thoughts would be appreciated.:\

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm sure you've already tried this, but have you right-clicked, clicked on personalize, and made sure the checkbox to show desktop icons is checked?

 

It may have accidently gotten unchecked, or Fences may have done this for some reason.

My 2 cents,

-Cym

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Shoot an email to support@stardock.com and we'll get you squared away.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

This has been resolved in Fences to automatically resolve this issue on reboot if it occurs.