Edited for clarity by admin: Sean Drohan
Thanks for the information. It’s going to take me a while to go through all the settings, but in the meantime, I reinstalled Fences 5.81. However, things just got stranger after the reinstallation.
Now, I’m unable to add any icons to any Fences. I didn’t try portals, but I suspect I could add icons to portals, just not to Fences. When I try to drag and drop an icon into a Fence, it’s as if the icon drops straight through the Fence and lands on the layer below. The Fence is somewhat transparent, but the icon that fell through disappears under the Fence. To find the icon, I have to move the Fence to see it beneath.
Before I uninstalled Fences 5.81 earlier today, I could place icons in Fences, and I could also show portals on my desktop, but they would disappear every time I rebooted. This time, I didn’t reboot before uninstalling Fences 5.81. I reinstalled Fences 2.0, which only worked if I manually right-clicked and selected "Run as Administrator."
After reading a comment about how Fences 2.0 could never be set up with a script, I found a potential workaround: creating a shortcut that launches the application with Administrator privileges using the following command:
runas /user:ComputerName\Administrator /savecred "C:\PathToProgram.exe"
I didn’t try it because I had already reinstalled Fences 5.81, but it’s a fallback if I need to go back to Fences 2.0.
Here’s where it gets even stranger: After reinstalling Fences 5.81, it somehow retained the configuration exactly as it was before I uninstalled it earlier today. I couldn’t believe it—it was precisely how I left it. However, I still can’t add new icons to any Fence, whether it’s a new one I create or an old one from before the reinstallation. I’ve attached a screenshot of the Fences and Portal I built before uninstalling Fences 5.81.
So, in theory, if I eventually can add icons to Fences again, like what happened last time, I could build up my desktop. If the same pattern holds, I could then uninstall Fences 5.81, reinstall Fences 2.0, uninstall Fences 2.0, and reinstall Fences 5.81. If it works as it did before, my desktop would be exactly how I want it, with all my icons in the Fences.
I haven’t tried that yet because I can’t add icons to any Fences right now. But if things happen as they did before, after letting Fences 5.81 sit on my desktop for a while, I might be able to start adding icons again. Then, I could uninstall and reinstall Fences 5.81, and my icons should stay in the Fences.
I’ve rebooted my PC at least once since reinstalling Fences 5.81, and for now, the icons I added before uninstalling Fences 5.81 are staying on my desktop after a reboot. This is the strangest thing I’ve seen with Fences.
