Fences does not appear to be loaded

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Fences was working yesterday, but after installing updates to windows and rebooting, Fences didn't startup. When I tried to open fences.exe, it displays a message

 

"Fences does not appear to be loaded"

 

It then opens the settings window where everything seems to be normal. I have tried reinstalling it. I uninstalled it, rebooted, installed it, rebooted but the problem still persists.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

Fences was working yesterday, but when I updated some windows software and rebooted, fences didn't startup. When Fe

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm getting the exact same problem with my Windows 7 64-Bit Build 7601 PC. I've tried uninstalling, rebooting, reinstalling, then rebooting again but it gives me the error. Also, if I try to create a new fence it won't work and it will just show the context menu...

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Go to start menu > all programs > start up > delete fences.lnk ...

let me know if this solution worked for u

cheers,

Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I don't have a fences.ink in my startup folder, and it isn't listed under msconfig startup. Isn't on services either.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Fences runs with a .dll file that gets loaded into explorer.  This is what it is reporting is not loaded.  Make sure you have the file DesktopDock.dll (DesktopDock64.dll for 64 bit machines) installed.  Also, is anything running on the system that would unload this, such as another desktop enhancement software?

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm having this same issue, and confirmed that DesktopDock.dll is installed.  While there is no other desktop enhancement software installed, it seems that Fences stopped working after I installed a few other pieces of software:

  • high-end data acquisition software
  • Adobe premiere elements 9
  • vlc

Any tips on how to troubleshoot this further?  I miss my fences :(

Many thanks!

Windows7 32-bit SP1

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Running XP 32 bit.  Same error. I've tried everything above to no avail. Help - I love Fences on my other Windows 7 PC.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Same problem here. Running Windows 8, Fences 2.11. Was working just fine, then stops. I would classify it as intermittent. About 50% of the time it fails. Only other "enhancements" are Decor8 and ModernMix.

 

(UPDATE: I noticed that upon right clicking on the desktop to bring up the context menu, after that point Fences begins to work... but not until then.. Bug?)

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