I just installed Fences 6 Beta 1 on Windows 11 Pro, 24H2, OS Build 26100.3476

Windows Experience Pack 1000.26100.54.0

NVIDIA RTX A4000, Driver = 572.60

I rebooted the PC as instructed.

Using the default Fences RMB option, there is no option to "Create Fence"

The option to "Configure Fences" is available. I have tried the LMB as the creation option, but "Create Fence" option still not available.

I hope a solution is available soon or will re-install Fences 5 next week.

Looking forward to using Tabs.

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Please check if you have not locked your Fences while you on previous version. If you do have it locked, please unlocked it. If the locked Fences don't appear on your desktop right click menu->Show more options->View menu. Please use this guide to turn it on. https://support.stardock.com/space/SHC/1621360668/Show+%22Lock+Fences%22+in+Fences+5

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Is the Fences 6 beta supposed to be labelled as the Business Edition? 

Quoting RudeBoyEEEE,

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Is there a way to give one "overall" title to a Fence with several tabs? I used to have four different Fences for my games, but now I can use one with tabs! Still, I'd like to give one overall title to the whole thing. Is that possible to implement at some point? This pic is what it looks like now.

Hello,
I don't believe Fences 6 have such option.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Do you have any other software that also install its own desktop overlay? For example, 360 total Security causing the same issue as your, as mentioned here: https://forums.stardock.com/494957. 

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Using Fences for the first time so come to it with completely fresh eyes.

I realize that you've encountered a fairly significant outage/disruption so all the best sorting that out and expect these will take a back seat to that, but thought it still best to share my feedback anyway.

Here are the things that I would find most useful that it lacks (moderator edited for readability):

• Custom order in folder portals. It actually sort of works at times despite saying that it doesn't (shows the right positioning visualization during drag drop and reorders the icons correspondingly) but it doesn't remember the custom order after reboot. That the only folder that you can do custom icon ordering on is the desktop and I like to visually organize my icons is what brought me to try fences in the first place.** Even if it had to write a (hidden system) sidecar file into the directory to remember the order would be worthwhile to improve the experience here.
• Would be nice to have folder portals return to their base folder after a timeout of inactivity (optional). At the moment if you navigate into a portal sub dir it holds that dir. But it would be nice to have the option if you stop engaging with it that it reverts back to the base dir.
•  Would be nice to have a visual on the tab to see if a folder was empty or not. I tried using folder portals to manage incoming data. If the tab "name bar" highlighted if the folder had content it would be useful to see that data was ready to act on.
• Adding a drawing pin icon to the left of the 'x' (close) on tabs when roll-up is enabled seems more user friendly then double clicking the titlebar. But understand its more visual clutter so can understand the absence.
• Agree with others that it would be nice to vary the timeout on tabs when you hover over them before they are activated. Personally I think on by default for this option would be more sensible default (I was going to request the feature till I noticed people posting about it here and went hunting for the setting).
  
  ** This is the only deal breaker. The other things are just things that I think would improve the experience.
  
  Also I'm not 100% sure, given 6 is listed as Beta if I place an order now am I licensing version 5 or 6 (talking about the outright option...not the subscription model).
  
  Hope this feedback helps.

Great, glad to know that, if you have try it yet, 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.

Note: This is just to make sure Fences 6 get installed properly. Make sure to follow the purge instruction and only restart after the purge is completely done.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Please try Cleanboot as mentioned here: https://support.stardock.com/space/SHC/1332445272/Fences+Clean+Boot. Do note that Clean boot need to be done with care, follow the instruction steps carefully. Try that and report back.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Basj,

I am looking in Task Manager, Startup apps section. Is it normal to see Fences listed twice?

Basj,

This PC is joined to a network domain. I have full network admin privileges. How effective will it be to add a new admin profile?

This is starting to be a lot of work for a $9 application.

Regards,

Jerry

It is a little easier for me to reproduce with tabs, it happens bit less often with the roll up feature.

To reproduce you will need to navigate to different tabs. Try navigating to a different tab then then the original opened tab and then switching pages (sometimes this needs to be repeated several times as it doesnt always get stuck on every tab switch). It is hard to say exactly when the animation will get stuck but eventually they do. Rollup fences does the same thing if you unroll / re-reroll the fence (the animation will make it appear open when it is closed), although it get stuck much less frequently then tabs do.

I will also note that most my tabbed groups are 3 or 4

-edit- I tested a little more it seems to be even easier to reproduce if the tabs are NOT in a rolled up position

Yes that is it

What about the idea of using the mouse wheel? When you scroll the mousewheel down then the rollup rolls down. When you scroll the mousewheel up the fence rolls up. I think that would work pretty good