Yes, on this, my home machine, I'm using three monitors on two adapters for a desktop that is 5280x1050/1200. 

Thanks, amigo.  My systems always define the very bleeding edge. 

Installed Fences this evening (from the webpage download link) on my XPP rig, set it up & it worked exactly as advertised.  I love the app & the idea.  Double-clicking would hide all but the one fence I had excluded from quick-hide (and all the other fenced icons) to leave a nice clean desktop.

Happened to launch Impulse & noted there was an update (0.96.037) so I updated Fences & rebooted as suggested.  Now, when I double-click the desktop, all the unlocked fences hide but none of the icons within them hide.  No error or crash messages to share.

Forgot to mention that Fences appears to pull the color for much of the config UI text from the desktop icon color - not a good idea if that color happens to be white unless the config UI background is uniformly darker, which it isn't.  I was having to check & uncheck 'naked' checkboxes to figure out what they would do.

I have been using Fences for a while now, i was one of the fortunate ones chosen early to check it out, now i must confess, i use fences instead of Objectdock, it forced me over to the fences side, LOL, nice job on this application, friends and family see it on my pc, and their first response is "i want that too"

RE: Reply #22 -

Uninstalled & reverted to the downloadable 0.96 version & all is well again.  Looking forward to the enhancements as dev progresses.  Nice job, Jeff.

I just installed Fences and was working with the program.  I moved a second shortcut to a fence, and it crashed explorer.  Explorer then restarted and things seem fine at the moment.  I have XP Pro with SP3.

I use DPI scaling on Vista (larger scale, 120DPI). On some Fences the text overlaps or hangs out the edge of a Fence.

Overlap:

Hanging out edge of Fence:

kind of hard to get debug information when explorer is in a constant recycle loop.  I ended up having to uninstall fences.  I wouldnt say this issue is rare at all judging by responses here.  I think you need to do better UAT before you let this out again.

The only thing I could gleam during this 40 minute unpleasentness was there appeared to be an issue with wallpaper.  I change my wallpaper frequently but I dont reboot frequently.  It sort of looks like Fences was trying to restore or do something against an image it no longer had.

Anyways... im not too terribly pissed at loosing time on this (since it is my development laptop im using this on) and that after so many years of using your products this is the first time in those many years I have had to grind my teeth to get the software uninstalled.  So chalk it up I guess.

Kevin

Sr. Software/Web Developer

Hi Ken. Sorry for the inconvenience - what platform were you seeing this on. XP SP3?

Just downloaded the latest beta.. a nice tool

There are a few suggestions..

Add more shapes like circle, triangle, star etc and custom outlines...

Different customizable icon sizes for diifferent fences...like we can set 48 px, 32 px etc for each...

Backgroud images for each fences...

Thanks

After a fresh install of Fences, I can't get the application to run.

Install goes through error free, there is no problems until the end when it tries to run, or if I try to run it from the start menu. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, rebooting, and even re-downloading and retrying the exe as well.

The Full Error I get is:

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.

Specs:
WinXP Pro SP3
Dual Monitor via Ultramon (1280x1024)x2

Not really sure why it's happening, it worked fine for me at home, now it won't at work.

Thanks in advance.

 

i've just installed en reinstalled it, but fences doesn't load.

if i open customize fences i get this message:

"Fences does not appear to be loaded. You may need to reinstall Fences."

 

---------------------------------------------------------
----------Stardock Fences Debug Information Log----------
---------------------------------------------------------
Please submit this file to [email protected], along
with a description of the problem you experienced. Please
put 'Fences Debug Info' as the subject of this email.
---------------------------------------------------------
       Thank you for your help improving Fences!
---------------------------------------------------------
OS Info:    Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 32bit
Timestamp:    11/02/2009 15:52:24
Fences Ver:    0.96.1533
DDock Info:    513384 - 4/02/2009 17:18:26
DDock64 Info:    755048 - 4/02/2009 17:18:26
FenceUI Info:    2897256 - 4/02/2009 17:53:28
---------------------------------------------------------



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          - 2/11/2009 8:58:23 AM
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0179135FX - FencesUI Start - /uninstall
0179141AX - FencesUI Start - /uninstallprompts
01792178X - FencesUI End   - /uninstallprompts
017922FFX - FencesUI Start - /uninstallsilent
017926B8X - FencesUI End   - /uninstallsilent
          - 2/11/2009 3:51:23 PM
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is it because i dont have admin-rights on this pc?

Did you email the log to [email protected] ?

I have been using fences for two weeks without any problems, except the desktop wallpaper:

I use two monitors with 1600 x 1200px each and a 3200 x 1200px image as wallpaper set to tiled option.
With fences running the image in the first monitor is cropped and tiled to the second one (see pictures)

While Running:

Disabled

@disfarce, that sounds like the description of this problem reported here:

https://forums.wincustomize.com/339261

There was a Stardock response, but I'm not clear what it was meant to indicate as a solution or change to multi-monitor system configuration.

You can add me to the list of users with endless Explorer crashes. I uninstalled Fences but I can't find your debug file. I'm runniing Vista Home Premium SP1 x64 on a very new i& 920 machine with 6 GB RAM. It had been running fine until the most recent update.

Having lots of issues with Fences.  XP SP3, running Fences v0.96.1583 Beta

All the issues seem to revolve around explorer.exe:

Explorer will occasionally just crash, and drwatsn seems to be involved too - if I go into Process Explorer (taskman replacement) and kill drwtsn and explorer, and run a new copy of explorer it will generally be OK again for a while, but every so often it completely crashes and the only solution is a power off reboot.

The other issue I've noticed is that my Show Desktop icon in quick launch will invariably, after about a day, stop working and display an out of memory error (I'd quote it verbatim but I've just reloaded explorer so it's not doing it at the moment, but it will return).

Oh, and a minor bug which I've noticed is that when I launch Call of Duty 4 (which changes screen res to run) when I close it down, the icon has always escaped from it's fence.  No idea about that!

I emailed my logs to the relevant email address maybe a week ago but didn't hear anything back.

Any ideas?  I like this program as it definitely provides a useful feature, but the constant issues with explorer when doing utterly mundane tasks such as renaming a file, opening a shortcut's properties to amend something or even simply right clicking on the desktop are really beginning to annoy me.   Are there any updates scheduled for the imminent future?

Logs just emailed again, I'd paste them but it's up to 295kb!

Thanks,

Phil

(need any more info just ask, I'm quite geeky so don't mind if you get technical).

Hi, I'm having a problem with multiple desktops.

I have two desktops, my Primary is placed on the right and my secondary (which is my TV) to the left. When downloading or saving files to the desktop all the icons are placed on the secondary instead of the primary (because it's to the left side).

If it was just two monitors there wouldn't be a problem just to switch places between them, but as it's my TV, which isn't always on, I have to rearrange my entire living room to fix this problem and that seems a bit exaggerated

It's really annoying, specially when you think you have downloaded or saved a file but you can't find it cause it's on the TV screen which is often turned off ...

Hopeing for a solution! Thanks!

/Marcus

Fences is pretty great - just what I was looking for to tame my insane desktop.

One issue I've noticed: occasionally I lose drag-n-drop functions where I can't drag icons around the desktop, to the Recycle Bin, etc. When Fences makes up its mind to do this, I get the black-circle-with-slash-thru-it when attempting to drag.

Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Always willing to beta test, too.

JohnB

ps: I've uploaded my debug file.

I've had the same issues as Marwood and I'm also running XPSP3. I just reisntalled Fences after updating to the latest Impulse, so I don't know if this is still the 3/18/09 version of Fences or a new one. In my case, I just did the install and have only had one explorer crash, from which I recovered, so that's an improvement at any rate. Please let me know if there is a newer version than the 3/18 build.

I've done some further checking and I am still getting the explorer crash loop under XPSP3.