Well now be carefull and don't fence in all the open range, the cows still need to graze. 

En Garde?

I installed it, and it's great!  But I seem to have a very large problem. 

I switched the view setting off of align to grid.  I don't know if that had anything to do with what's happening, but thought you should know.  Anyway, the problem is this: the screen is "sort of" frozen.  I can use programs to some extent, but if I try to get out, it leaves the image up on my screen.  For example, when I minimize Firefox, it leaves the image on the screen.  It's not the actual program, just the image.  I guess I could reboot, but I dunno if that will be a permanent fix.

I don't know for sure that Fences is causing this, but it seems unlikely to be a coincidence.

Please help quickly!

What OS?  What servce pack?

Windows XP, with service pack 2, I believe.

EDIT-- I logged out of my account and back in, and it fixed it.  It's possible that it may only be temporary though.  Please post back if you have any info on the problem.

Remains the case with the 0.96.1583 beta here.

Hello, Fences is more convenient that the traditional bars tools and especially enjoyable graphically!
Thank you for the realization of a dream...
After creation of several Fences,
I would like to select only one or more (visible in the menu list with a right click) to restore them and only them with a double click on desktop.
All of the Fences restored with double click being too intrusive.
Apart from the snapshot I can't find solution.
Thank you for your great work.

Unchanged with 0.96.1646.

Try putting the icons into the fences rather than put the fence on the icons...

If that's not the problem, it's likely a problem because you run a non standard installation (such as xplite, or other hack xp. Install SP3, if you can't, then you DEFINETELY have a borked XP).

If *that* is not the problem, you likely got something else that hooks onto the desktop/icons that conflicts with fences.

If it is a conflict, YOU need to figure out what the conflict is, and then tell about the problem. It'll be fixed eventually.

I see this being useless for me because, I have just been using the impulse dock to do the very same thing for a while now and it has been working great. But..what the hell? Why not give this a whirl.

EDIT

After 2 minutes of playing with this program..I have reached the conclusion that it is awesome!

Thanks for the feedback, mickeko.

That's how I did it - created fences & dragged icons into them.  Oddly, the hiding function worked properly with the first public release.  There was an update within a couple of days of that first release, however, which resulted in this failure-to-hide behavior (it occurred with the first published update after the initial public announcement).  I was able to uninstall Fences, re-install from the first release download and it was fixed.  I stayed with the first release for awhile, but then one day after a reboot the icons failed to hide again, even with the original release.  So I've been updating to each new version as it comes along since.

I have a normal/standard XPP SP2 installation, no hacks.  Have chosen not to install SP3 for a couple of reasons.  Only thing that 'hooks into the desktop icons' I have is IP4 (4.10.177) & believe I've been at that version since before installing Fences.

I've been posting updated status replies here after installing new releases for the benefit of the devs - I haven't been able to identify a conflict and have limited ability to do so.

Hi,

I tried Fences when it showed up on Impulse and really liked it. However, last night while moving some files on the desktop, it apparently caused Explorer to shut down. When Explorer started up again, Fences apparently crashed it. This led to a cycle of Explorer/Fences crashes that even a restart couldn't fix. Task Manager showed a max out of ram before each crash.

I finally managed to uninstall Fences via Impulse and things have finally stabilized once more. Since I'm already using Object Dock I think I'll just stick with that.

Hehe, this looks a lot like Folderview from KDE4 on Linux.

Actually you got it the wrong way around... It's folderview that looks alot like fences.

Are you sure about that ? When was the first version of Fences released ? I can't locate any relevant information, but the earliest references to Fences I've been able to find (version beta 0.96) come from February 2009. Meanwhile there are references to KDE3 Folderview from June 2008, such as this one:

http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2008/06/14/folderview-is-the-awesome/

Unless I'm missing something, Folderview also seems more flexible.

Fences has been in internal alpha (it took a LONG time to get this to work on Windows) for years. There are screenshots of it on our site from a couple years ago.

Works great for me!  Thanks Stardock!

I smell a red herring. KDE4 has been in development for years, too.

It still doesn't answer the (implied) question "When was Fences actually released ?" If, as it appears to be the case, KDE4's Folderview was released before Fences, calling it a clone(or inspired by) of Fences is a stretch.

It doesn't matter when it was released. As soon as the idea is made public, anything coming after can be considered a "clone". It doesn't necessarily mean that the developer has even seen the original software.

Bumptop is a good example, there are numerous clones out there, and bumptop isn't released. All similar software (such as realdesktop) are still clones.

Fences is a good addition to the desktop, however I found some features I don't like:

•  files that are put to the desktop by other ways than drag-and-drop (e.g. Firefox loads a file from the internet and places it on the desktop) ignore Fences. The result does not please me, because the new file appears often under a shortcut created by fence. Due to this the new file can not be easily accessed, unless I move the fence above it.
• I do not understand a fence named Recent Things. As I installed this program I thougt there will appear recently opened/modified files, however the files there are "recent things at the time the wizard has been run". So it is not as helpful as I thought.