Fences Issue with Classic Icon Size?

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         When I set icons to classic view I can no longer have a single column of icons along the side of the screen. It automaically turns them into 2 columns no matter how small the fence is. Which puts icons out of visibility.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Which version?  I'm not seeing this, although I'm checking on Pro.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Well, WinMonster2, I'm in the same boat. And I think its sinking :P  This bug is unfortunately on fences pro also. I just paid the 10 smackers a few days ago (around april 18th) and was just so anxious to set it up to my fancy and just like you I figured the smallest icon size (and yea, I did try all the ctrl+scroll sizes) in a few vertical rowed fences made the most since. But alas, it cant quite squeeze em' into one row. It wasn't always like this. In fact the trial fences used to do fine with it until... now don't quote me on this but I'm roughly 98.74% sure it started this nonsense right after I went from Vista x64 to 7 ultimate x32 bit. I though "man I bet the shiny pro version wouldn't do this. And hey all those awesome new features... /drool and lose focus" btw, friggin awesome work on fences and all the other stuff y'all do. Anyways, its only an issue with the "classic" size icons and I've tried all combinations of the auto arrange and arrange to grid settings. OH JUNK! I reckon I just found what might be a common cause. Go to Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization\Window Color and Appearance and click on advance appearance settings. now adjust the "border padding" as many people in vista/7 like to do. Now it seems as though when you change the padding you also have to raise the "icon spacing (horizontal)" to 5x or higher, x being the same number the border padding is set to. Well something like that anyway... It seems to work fine now. I surely do hope this helps you guys figure out how to make this not happen in future releases. And I also hope WinMonster2 visits his own post...

 

Thanks again for all your awesome junk,

Mike.

 

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm roughly 98.74% sure it started this nonsense right after I went from Vista x64 to 7 ultimate x32 bit
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Did this involve reinstalling Fences, or did you have it installed on a partition that was not formatted for the reinstall?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Nah. I had reinstalled it.

PS. Sorry for somewhat abandoning this post. Its just that the bookmark was made in google chrome and my chrome hasn't been getting along with #E shell for the last few days. So i just kinda forgot all about it...

 

Regards,

Mike

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

my chrome hasn't been getting along with #E shell
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What's #E Shell?

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Well that's sorta a nickname for "Sharp Environment". Its just a shell replacement to use instead of the default windows "Explorer" shell. if you've never met any of the awesome shell replacements out there then you'd better google em and get acquainted. cause there's some really handy ones... and a few horrible ones. but the one id suggest is SharpE (sharpe-shell dot org). they all take a little time to setup but it's always worth it to get exactly whatcha want. Anyway... this is all a bit off topic. oh well.

 

Regards,

Mike.

 

EDIT: btw if anyone else has a problem with chrome and sharpe, just set chromes compatibility mode to vista sp2.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Its just a shell replacement to use instead of the default windows "Explorer" shell. if you've never met any of the awesome shell replacements out there then you'd better google em and get acquainted.
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That's what I figured, and this may be part of the issue you're seeing.  Fences runs as a .dll that plugs into Explorer, and if you're running a different shell this may render Fences non-functional.