Worked like a charm, Thank you WvdV

Well done WvdV

Unfortunately after a day of working OK, fences started crashing again.

Here is what I did to get it working:

• Disable Fences startup (task manager)
• Open Task scheduler
• Create a new task with the following options:
• Run with highest Privileges
• Triggered by user logon
• Starts Fences with /startup as its argument
• Do not start a new instance if one is already running
• Follow WvdV's advice
• Open Fences configuration utility and disable layout preservation and perform an automatic layout (don't create a backup), then close
• (Optional) Add as many "Sorting & Organizing" rules as possible to have fences auto-generate your layout every time you have to perform an automatic layout.
• delete backups and logs in %appdata%\Stardock\Fences folder
• You should also disable creating daily backups. This was a big issue for me.
• (optional - probably doesn't do anything, but try it when nothing else works)
• Take ownership of %ProgramData%\Stardock\Fences3 - Make sure to replace ownership on child objects - and hit ok
• Then add yourself and the administrators group (with full control for both) to the folder under advanced security settings
• Do this again to the %appdata%\Stardock\Fences folder
• Note: This is only because I saw several user comments talking about permission errors. I am an admin on my system and I was unable to view these files, so I assume Fences cant either.
• Restart your system
• Fences should be 99% working! You can now go into fences settings and enable layout preservation if you like.
• For some reason I cannot move icons onto my desktop via drag-and-drop (causes a crash). If you want to do that, you need to edit Stardock's registry settings (use the recycle bin as a template for your own icons)
• Fences registry settings: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Fences
• Recycle Bin's CLSID: ::{645ff040-5081-101b-9f08-00aa002f954e}
• Recycle Bin Example Value (from my registry - located on screen 1 in the top left corner - I dont know why "firefox.exe" is in there):
  -1|13|2|13|2|0|0|0|\\.\DISPLAY1`|9|0|0|firefox.exe|0|1577882896|30543274|
• This is pretty advanced, and will cause Fences to crash if configured incorrectly. If Fences does crash because of your edits, simply perform another auto layout.
• Pro Tip: edit one icon at a time and export your fences registry settings every time you have a stable desktop (do each key individually: Icons, Groups, etc... this way you can restore only what broke to avoid any other issues).

Let me know if this helps! Good luck everyone!

Working fine on build 14926. 

Well build 14926 is now released. Will it fix it or will it break it? Here goes.....

14926 fixed it for me too

Me likey

14926.rs_prerelease.160910.1529 (Win10 Enterprise x64 on a domain with desktop folder redirection) working fine now.

just an FYI, fences 3.0.1 is working on the new build released on the 14/09/2016 

Or install the Start10 beta and then uninstall normally

Sorry - hit submit before I was done.

Windows Insider Build 14936 Fences is back to not working and this time I cant find a work around.

Anyone have any luck here, explorer crashes, fences gets disabled, same old issues but not of the solutions appear to work.

--Dave

Where do we get the beta?