Any way to remove animation for dragging items on desktop/fences?

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When enabling fences there is a noticable lag or increased animation time when dragging around icons/shortcuts etc. This worsens a lot when I have a lot of data (e.g. folders with normal file content) on the desktop (I guess the whole desktop is an "invisible" fence?).

But even with only a few icons on the desktop it increases substantial lag, I made a short GIF of it: https://gph.is/g/aj1b3NB

Hopefully it is somewhat visible, dragging icons with fences enabled feels like it wants to align automatically in a grid and then adds some sort of "move to that position" animation to it which makes everything feel (and work) slow.

 

Any way to remove that behavior?

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top


https://gph.is/g/aj1b3NB
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The file is et to private so noone other than you can see it.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Sorry, thought it is possible to view it with the link. Changed it to public now.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. From what I know, there is no such option currently available in Fences v3.0.9.11. But, there were few Feature request put in, requesting such option be included in the future. I however can not tell you if or when such feature be added.

Thanks

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having trouble.

Any way to remove animation for dragging items on desktop/fences?
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You can test the difference - if any - if you disable 'Auto-arrange icons'

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi, that is turned off already. I have "Align icons to grid" activated but that's one I obviously want to keep.