Downloads to desktop go to the second monitor

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Would suggest to look for solution in these guide : https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#multimonitor

and Suggest to setup temporary Fence and set rules to send all new icons to go to that Fence. Than you can put this fence in any monitor and position you like. All new icons will always be in that Fence. You can than move these icons to any fences or delete it.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Thanks.

Do you know if this is a known bug that might get fixed?

This happens to me too. Whenever I save a photo, download a file or send a file from my laptop to the desktop it always ends up on the second monitor. This has been happening with the previous versions of Fences. I don't want another fence on my desktop so I send all the files to the download folder.

I've recently done a fresh reinstall of both Windows 10 (currently running 10.0.18362.388) and Fences (3.0.9.11) and I have slightly similar symptoms that may or not be related.

Edit: oops, confession time! It turns out I had Align icons to grid disabled in Windows' Desktop View settings, so the bit below about icon placement is complete hogwash and not a Fences issue at all. I'll leave it here in strikethrough in case anyone else suffers the same brain fart and so stumbles upon the solution with a search. 

I've also deleted the reference to the Clickthrough problem, because while it is an extant problem it's off topic once the context is removed. Apologies for hijacking the thread with what turned out to be two completely unconnected problems.

While my new icons aren't going to the secondary monitor they are being placed on the Desktop "behind" the fence that lives near the top-left corner of my primary. Furthermore they're placed on top of each other, such that a multiple download session results in a "stack" of icons like a deck of cards all in the top-left corner, requiring the fence to be moved out of the way and each icon dragged from the stack to somewhere else. 

This isn't a behaviour I've previously seen in Fences (the icons would be "pushed" onto a fenceless area of the Desktop) nor in vanilla Windows 10 (the icons would be placed next to each other left to right across the Desktop).

Stardock, I don't know why this long-standing issue was never fixed. It bothers all the end-users with multiple monitors costing their efforts to look for workaround.

Actually, it has a simple easy solution, just create a Fences and set Fences rule to send all new icons on the desktop to go there and place that Fence on your second monitor or any monitor you like.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

This is a workaround rather than a solution. A software package is not supposed to alter any native system behaviors or settings except for executing its own function. Why is Fence software keep resisting a fix to this bug?

Actually, it has a simple easy solution, just create a Fences and set Fences rule to send all new icons on the desktop to go there and place that Fence on your second monitor or any monitor you like.
Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

I don't want folders that I've just created to be moved to a fence though. I'd just like my downloads to be put in a sensible place on the desktop. Actually, since you're here Basj, I have a couple of related bugs...

1) When I come out of hibernation, old icons and folders that were deleted in the last session reappear. I have to F5 to refresh the desktop to get rid of them.

2) Trying to copy icons next to other icons on the grid is very annoying. I have to drag them almost on top of the existing icon before they will move to the new position on the grid. Windows default grid is much more forgiving.

Cheers.

I heard that a newer version will come up soon which should answer some of these issues. Refer here : https://forums.stardock.com/487301/get;3803686

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Thanks.

It seems other people have bigger problems than I do!

Well, let' see what happens in the next update then.