Stardock Announces Fences 5
Now in Release Preview with Chameleon, Peek Toggle, and New Enterprise Functionality
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Fences 5 is a major update to its popular Windows desktop organization software with over 20 million downloads. Fences solves the problem of a “messy desktop” by automatically organizing Windows desktop icons into shaded areas, creating a clutter-free and productive workspace.
Fences 5 introduces Chameleon™️ – a Windows desktop icon enhancement that blends your desktop icons into your wallpaper. Icons maintain their functionality but fade into the background to remain easily accessible without being a distraction.
Also new in Fences 5, it is now easier than ever to access your Fence groups by bringing them to the top with a single click. Building on the patented Peek™ functionality introduced in Fences 4, Fences 5 enables the ability to access your Fence groups from the taskbar by adding an icon to the taskbar to instantly access your desktop groups.
Fences is used by thousands of businesses, from Education to Government to Healthcare. To help these businesses deploy organized dashboards of desktop icons, Fences 5 for Business adds all-new tooling that makes it easier than ever to manage these deployments. With the new ability to easily import/export layouts for distribution, tooling to load configurations from a network drive during logon, and more, Fences sets the standard for enterprise desktop icon management.
"Fences 5 is designed to deliver a modern desktop experience," said Brad Sams, General Manager of Stardock Software. "Fences is the best way to organize your desktop and with Chameleon and Peek, we have built a modern workflow that provides you instant access to your content while reducing the distractions of the desktop.”
Along with its new features, Fences 5 delivers many other enhancements to the core Fences desktop engine that results in improved performance and enhanced capabilities.
Fences 5 is available today starting at $9.99 with Release Preview discounts available for a limited timeand it is also included in the award-winning Object Desktop suite.
Dear "Dr W - Fences Support",In regard to my original post, (Link: https://forums.stardock.com/523926/get;3948390 )I purchased my upgrade to Fences 4 on December 23rd, 2021.Is this something that I can get technical support for, or will the only advice I'll receive be that I upgrade to Fences 5?For context, I did go through the troubleshooting section of your site quite thoroughly and the only relevant section I found was the following article...Link: Fences troubleshooting page: "Spacing on Icons has changed"I followed everything on that page to a T and it did not resolve the problem.Again, I am on a fresh install of Windows 11 24H2.So, I ask again. With the fact that I purchased my license for Fences 4 almost 3 years ago and with the troubleshooting steps I have already tried, can Stardock provide technical support to me on this problem, or is my only option to upgrade to Fences 5?I look forward to your response.
Hello,Sorry to hear you are having issues. I do believe if you look around the forum, we will notice that, we still do support previous version of Fences unless the issue is something those older version not capable to resolved. Please create a new thread on your issue and we will try to help you from that thread.
Thank you.Basj,Stardock Community Assistant.
This thread is just about a full year old. Does that mean Stardock is getting closer to Fences 6? For example is it a good time to start listing a wish list of what features we would want to see?
Can I detail view my stuff yet without putting them in subfolders? If so, I am in. This feature has been wanted for years. Has anyone got this accomplished yet or is it a limitation of the shell? I'm still on v3 but would gladly pay lifetime if I can get this feature.
@cnewman402 – technical limitation. But, something we're actively interested in exploring down the road. Just would be very difficult to pull off for a relatively narrow use case.
Would it help if Fences could auto-convert a Fence into a folder (move the files into a subfolder), which then became a folder portal?
I have a fresh clean install of Windows 11 24H2 and I am attaching a screenshot of how my desktop looks (with fences 4) every morning when I wake up.For context, I have Fences 4 (latest version)My desktop is 3840x2160 at 120hz with "Scale" at 200%. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.
Awesome, glad you resolved your issue and thank you, appreciate you taking your time to report this.
Thank you,
Basj,Stardock Community Assistant
You mentioned the issue happen since Windows update v24H2 which something new introduce that causing the issue in your system. Do know that Fences 5 recently introduced a new layout engine, which work better on managing the Fences layout. I believe what you seeing, where the layout correct itself after few moment is the work of the new layout engine, which does not develop in Fences 4.
You might need to change your auto layout setting to "Store my layout on per-monitor configuration basis". For reference please refer to this thread https://forums.stardock.com/528229/
You mentioned the issue happen since Windows update v24H2 which something new introduce that causing the issue in your system. Do know that Fences 5 recently introduced a new layout engine, which work better on managing the Fences layout. I believe what you seeing, where the layout correct itself after few moment is the work of the new layout engine, which does not develop in Fences 4.You might need to change your auto layout setting to "Store my layout on per-monitor configuration basis". For reference please refer to this thread https://forums.stardock.com/528229/Thank you,Basj,Stardock Community Assistant
This is a Windows issue. I’m experiencing the same problem, and I didn’t install Fences on my PC, yet it still occurs.
As this is the Fences thread, my question is fences automatically renewed each year? I received 2 emails from Stardock both the same....
Is this new? I do not automatic processing on anything.
Thank you for your time.
Is this new? I do not automatic processing on anything. Thank you for your time.
Check this out in Stardock Support. How to cancel \ pause a subscription auto-payment at the bottom of the page.
https://support.stardock.com/space/SHC/1544388616/Stardock+Software+Subscriptions#Managing-Stardock-Software-Subscriptions
Thank you so much pelaird! Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!
You are so welcome. I had just read about this, so I was familiar with what to do.
Thanks for the warm holiday wishes, and Merry Christmas to you. I can't believe we're rolling into 2025!
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