Fences 5.04 blows up when enabling 'Add "Show Fences" icon to my taskbar' on Windows 11

First time poster.....

Here are my existing issue I'm having with fences. Love the program but the bugs are becoming a pain.

There's enough threads out there regarding multiple monitor assignments and icon placement. Which of course is one of my issues. 

1. System always chooses to move my icons from the primary monitor onto my secondary monitor. Whether the secondary monitor is on or off. 

2. Leaving the computer on without going into standby using (extreme power mode) but shutting off the monitors still pushes the icons to the secondary monitor by default whether off or on. When i turn the displays back on.

New issues with new program icons after installation. 

1. Program icons are displayed on my secondary monitor after installation. When i try to drag them from the secondary monitor onto my primary monitor. The icon either disappears or the fence window im trying to drag them to causes all fences windows to close and need to reboot to restore the fence windows. 

2. On another note, If I'm able to drag and place the icon into the folder. Upon a reboot these icons are again back on my desktop and not in the fences folder I placed them in. Plus, there are times the icons disappear and may not show up on the desktop until a few reboots happen.

Not sure if anyone else is having this fence folder/icon disappearance.

Seems this all started when version 5 came out. 

Of course, willing to help to troubleshoot this issue so it can be a thing of the past. 

Let me know what information you would need from me to collect any data.

Hi im having an issue creating fences i tried on fences 4 and tonight i installed fences 5 but still same problem,

i try to drag a fence but dosent show up, the only time i can make  dotted line  is within a created fence or around desktop icons 

Windows version :  23H2 Build 25967

More work on this is being done on this - we had a meeting on it today... Thats about all I can say about it right now.

This reads like you are inadvertently evoking 'Pages'.  As a test, turn it off and see if you can reproduce it

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Quoting sintemal,

reply 34

Hallo,

is it normal that fences has multiple background processes like these?

Hello,

Yes, that look normal, and its the same as what I have. From what I know, Fences need to be loaded twice for it to work properly.

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Please try these steps: https://forums.stardock.com/486311/accounts-and-activation-support-faq#keepsaskingactivation. Try that and report back.

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Great, glad it worked.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Was it working before? What change? New software installed? New update?

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Please try purge and reinstall steps as mention here : [Link]. Just make sure to redownload the latest version from your account page. Reboot after the purge. Reinstall and reboot again after the installation. Retest and report back here.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Than something is blocking Fences from working properly. Please try cleanboot. https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#cleanboot

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

The issue was resolved.  I had locked the Fences and thus could not create the new one as is normal.

All,

Fences 5.53 was released today.  For details, please see:

https://forums.stardock.com/528046/fences-553-release-feedback-thread

As always, thank you for your time, feedback, and support.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager