Fences 3

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I disabled Fences and got all my icons back, but if I re-enable Fences they disappear again. ???????

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues.

1. For the Fence rollup issue. Try double click on the Fences titlebar. And see if it stop rolling up.
2. For Fence disappearing. It might due to its move to a new Fences desktop page. You can try to learn how to navigate Fences desktop page or disable that function.

Thanks.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Thank you.

I was able to disable the roll-up by unchecking the enable button on the roll-up page (I think).

I found the Desktop Pages page and unchecked the "enabled" box but that did not fix the problem.
The material you provided starting under "Desktop Pages" above is cut off on the right and I don't understand what to do. It says "Access multiple screens of icons by grabbing and pulling the edge of your screen like................your computing life separate."

Basj,

So I am left with all my icons on my desktop only because I disabled Fences but I don't have Fences.  If I enable Fences, I lose most of the icons in my 3rd Fence.

ps. I have Fences 3. Is there a free upgrade to Fences 4?

If you have disable desktop page and those missing Fences still do not reappear. Than there is something else. Have you tried restore layout snapshot? If not yet, please do. Fences have option to automatically save 3 days "daily snapshot" of your system. Try restore those earlier snapshot and see if those missing Fences restore.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Basj,

I found the missing words on the Desktop Page page, but I still don.t understand what to do.

Do I have to re-enable Fences first? Then what? "Grab the edge of my screen" How, and do exactly what?

Yes, please enable Fences first.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Basj,

I re-enabled Fences and then tried to do what I think those instructions meant. That is, I tried to swipe the screen and get to another Desktop Page but that did not work,.

When I swiped inward from the right edge, some general material appeared. Nothing happened when I swiped from the left edge.
I may not have accidentally moved that 3rd Fence to a different Desktop Page.

Please provide more detailed instructions.

If that don't work. Try my other suggestion Reply#6. Try restore the snapshots saved from earlier day. 2 or 3 days ago.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Basj,

I found that Layout page and I think that worked (even though the "Restore" button was not previously checked).

I guess I should leave that button on, correct?

ps. I assume there is no free upgrade from Fences 3 to Fences 4, correct? 

Thank you very much for your help.

Not sure on this one. Which button you was referring to? Please post a screenshot of this button.

On Fences 3 to Fences 4. Sorry to inform you that, there is no free upgrade offer. But, there is a discount offer. Also you might like to read on more on Fences 4 upgrade FAQ: https://forums.stardock.com/508196/fences-4-upgrade-faq.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Basj,

Sorry, but that was the "Store" not the "Restore" button as shown highlighted in your page illustration above.

I read the link you gave me about discounts for Fences 4 but find it confusing. Is there a discount for Fences 3 users who upgrade to Fences 4? I don't know what that "Object Desktop" is.

That "Store my Fences' position on a per-screen-resolution basis", I believe, is for system that running application that change screen resolution. For example old application/games that running in low resolution in full screen. If you don't run such application, you do not need to turn that on.

If you go to Fences 4 page: https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/. At the bottom of that page there is a link for Fences 3 user. Click that link.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Basj,

When I looked at your illustration of the Layout page above I s[dotted the "Store" button checked and so I checked it on mine and it worked to bring back my missing Fence and missing icons. I did not focus on that next-to-last box "Layout Snapshot" which I did not check before but when I checked it just now it was checked. So< I have no idea how it fixed itself. 

Thank you for the link to the upgrade.

Thank you for all your help. I could never have fixed this without you.

Basj,

The link to that upgrade did not work.

I opened it but the link to upgrade did not function.
I also copied the web address and searched, but it opened to the same page that had a link that did not work.

Please try different browser or different system. When I click that link it open up a new page: https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/download

and if you click on "upgrade" you will get something like screenshot below. You just need to enter your email address that linked to your Fences 3 in there.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

This problem has been driving me nuts for a while now (V4).  Turns out this is caused by Microsoft trying to keep windows snappy and not allowing enough cache for icons.  If anyone on w10 runs into this problem (normally caused by having fences display to many icons on dsktp) then use this method to fix.

Open Regedit and nav to

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

On the right hand panel Create a String Value and call it "MaxCachedIcons" (without Quotes).

Double click the String and you can either enter 2048 or 4096 (2MB or 4MB). The higher this value the sluggish your disktop will become over time so beware. Personally i would not go above 8192. (8MB)   Now restart system.

When back to desktop go into fences and temp disable fences.

Open notepad and paste the following:

@echo off

set iconcache=%localappdata%\IconCache.db

set iconcache_x=%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache*

echo.

echo The explorer process must be temporarily killed before deleting the IconCache.db file. 

echo.

echo Please SAVE ALL OPEN WORK before continuing.

echo.

pause

echo.

If exist "%iconcache%" goto delete

echo.

echo The %localappdata%\IconCache.db file has already been deleted.

echo. 

If exist "%iconcache_x%" goto delete

echo.

echo The %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\IconCache_*.db files have already been deleted.

echo.

exit /B

:delete

echo.

echo Attempting to delete IconCache.db files...

echo.

ie4uinit.exe -show

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F 

If exist del /A /F /Q "%iconcache%"

If exist del /A /F /Q "%iconcache_x%"

start explorer.exe

echo.

echo IconCache database files have been successfully deleted.

goto restart

:restart

echo.

echo.

echo You will need to restart the PC to finish rebuilding your icon cache.

echo.

CHOICE /C:YN /M "Do you want to restart the PC now?"

IF ERRORLEVEL 2 goto no

IF ERRORLEVEL 1 goto yes

:yes

shutdown /r /f /t 00

:no

exit /B

Save this as cleariconcache.bat, Close all desktop apps and right click the bat file run as admin and follow the instructions onscreen the system will restart and bam your blank icons will resolved. oh and dont forget to re-enable fences.

Like i mentioned this imo isn't a fences problem as such but more M$ trying to make windows as snappy as ever at the cost to convenience.  If you do NOT use many icons in your desktop fences then your will probably never run into this problem. 

Hope this helps.

Not sure why this is happening but the smiley face above :delete should be : delete (without space)