Can't believe it's over 3 years and the same problem still exists. Pleased you found the workaround useful Daz. ximera30 - see my post at the bottom of page 2 and the follow-up near the top of page 3. Also see brettsarkissian post at the top of the page. <a id="ctl00_ctl00__Content__Con
I got a reply from the ticket I raised I may have a work-around for you if you have networked shortcuts on your desktop. Create a folder somewhere on your PC (I might use My Documents). Move all your networked shortcuts from the desktop to that folder. Now create a folder portal fence linked to that directory. You can do that by holding the [Alt] key down while dragging the folder t
Take a look at my reply at the bottom of this page: https://forums.stardock.com/436973/page/2/#replies If you have shortcuts to folder or files on network drives, but those network drives are not available, then Fences hangs horribly at startup. The more shortcuts, the more it hangs. To test, create a normal folder on your desktop, move all the network shortcuts into it and reboot.
Take a look at my reply at the bottom of this page: https://forums.stardock.com/436973/page/2/#replies If you have shortcuts to folder or files on network drives, but those network drives are not available, then Fences hangs horribly at startup. The more shortcuts, the more it hangs. To test, create a normal folder on your desktop, move all the network shortcuts into it and reboot. Alternatively,
Hi, I thought I'd comment on this as I've just spent the evening trying to fix my slow starting Fences (Win 7 x64), and seem to have succeeded. I noticed that Fences started up quickly at work but not at home, which got me thinking about what shortcuts I had on the desktop. I removed all shortcuts that pointed to remote documents/folders/servers. This seems to have resolved the issue. It seems as though Fences tries to locate the item poi