cannot make single column fences in win 8.1

That issue should have been taken care of in 2.12. What happens when you attempt to make a single row? Are you seeing icons go off to the side in the area that is not visible?

Well, i don't think it was solved, at least for what I can see ....

Single rows behave as expected, I'm talking about single columns, I cannot make a fence with less than 2 columns.  If I try to resize it to make a single  column, the icons don't re-arrange themselves, they simply stay where they are and I'm hiding them as I move the edge of the fence.  See attached

It may be an issue with Windows 8/8.1.  I'm running Windows 7 64bit Home Premium and the latest version of Fences and I can get a single column Fence.  I know that doesn't talk directly to your problem but it may help support in looking at it. 

Thanks,  ya let's see if a support person can help.

It will be best to submit a ticket if you have not already done so. Please download and run the following utility:

http://sd.stardock.com/SDSupportTool.exe

This is a tool that we use to gather relevant log files and basic information about your computer. Once the utility finishes running, please send the .zip file it creates on the desktop to support@stardock.com

Thank you.

I ran into this problem earlier.  I have a couple of single column fences and I was playing about with resizing my icons and the icon spacing in Windows 8.1.  I noticed that if I made my desktop icons a smaller or changed the spacing to anything other than default then I would get this issue where icons would move into 2 columns within the fence.  To rectify it I reset the spacing to default and made the icons bigger (by pressing Ctrl & Alt & '+' keys together).

I hope this info helps