PC World Takes a Look at Fences

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing

The folks over at the PC World blogs grabbed a copy of Fences from Stardock, and gave it a run through on their desktop.  The quote below sums up everything pretty well.

“It wasn't five minutes after installing this program that I realized I'll be using it for the rest of my computing life. It's that good.”

PC World

Business Hacks on Bnet.com, also has a quick video demo showing Fences in action.

See the video here.

 

Phalnax811
Reply #1 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:27 AM

“It wasn't five minutes after installing this program that I realized I'll be using it for the rest of my computing life. It's that good.”

Agreed!

Spooky__
Reply #2 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:43 AM

It's indeed very useful. However, I'd like it to be more configurable, especially the appearance. Also I had some trouble with applications or scripts that were executed from the Desktop. For example Stardock has a script to gather some information about your PC, for debugging issues with Demigod for example. The script creates a file with the gathered information. However, when run from the Desktop with fences installed, no file was ever created.

Picciu
Reply #3 Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:57 PM

That video doesn't say absolutly nothing. With that it seems that fences doesn't do a thing, 1.50 min was too much time compared to the things to say.

A good things would be to see what a purchased version has more than the free one.

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