Stardock Releases Fences 6
Now with Tabs, Icon Tint, and New Enterprise Functionality, It’s the Most Advanced Desktop Utility for Windows
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 by redskittlesonly | Discussion: Fences News
Now with Tabs, Icon Tint, and New Enterprise Functionality, It’s the Most Advanced Desktop Utility for Windows
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Stardock released Fences® 6 – a major update to its popular Windows desktop organization software with more than 20 million downloads. Fences is the easiest way to manage your desktop workflow by neatly organizing apps, files, and icons on the desktop.
Fences 6 introduces tabs, a feature that allows you to place multiple Fence groups together in a tabbed experience for a modern layout. And with the ability to dynamically add, remove, and apply color to a tab, Fences 6 continues to raise the bar as the best desktop organizational tool for Windows.
Also new in Fences 6 is the ability to apply a color tint to the icons on your desktop. This simple but innovative feature allows you to apply a color expression to all your desktop icons to create a stylistic and distraction-free layout or to help an individual Fence stand out. And when combined with many of the quality-of-life updates like improved navigation for Folder Portals™, Fences 6 is another significant step forward for functionality and personalization.
Fences is used by thousands of businesses, from Healthcare to Law offices and Finance organizations. To help these businesses deploy organized dashboards of desktop icons, Fences 6 for Business adds advanced tooling to create templated deployments with multiple configurations ready out of the box. And with Stardock also offering customized deployment configurations with each enterprise rollout, Fences 6 is the most configurable, deployable, and scalable version of Fences, ever.
"Fences 6 is our biggest leap forward for the productivity tool," said Brad Sams, General Manager of Stardock Software. "Fences is widely recognized as the best way to organize your desktop and with the new features in Fences 6, it is now the best tool for managing not only your desktop but every desktop within your organization.”
Fences 6 is available today starting at $9.99 for consumer and enterprise customers and it is also available in the award-winning suite, Object Desktop.
Reply #3 Wednesday, May 28, 2025 11:57 PM
Update is getting flagged as suspicious from ESET.
ESET is notorious for false positives which they don't bother themselves to actually test and correct.
If you are worried about the false positive warning, you can test it with a free downloadable Malwarebytes scanner here:
Reply #4 Thursday, May 29, 2025 1:33 AM
Hello, I bought the perpetual license Fences 5 in 2024/12/23. Is there a discount price for upgrading to Fences 6? Thank you
Reply #5 Thursday, May 29, 2025 7:08 AM
Hello, I bought the perpetual license Fences 5 in 2024/12/23. Is there a discount price for upgrading to Fences 6? Thank you
I believe there is discount offer for previous version owner. Use the "upgrade" link, enter your registered email address and check discount is available for you.
Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant
Reply #6 Thursday, May 29, 2025 8:26 AM
The introduction of TABS in Fences 6 really adds a modern touch to the Windows Desktop!
Thanks to the Development Team for this great update. 
Reply #8 Thursday, May 29, 2025 2:22 PM
I've the same issue with this update both with Eset and Malwarebytes
Reply #9 Thursday, May 29, 2025 2:55 PM
Eset is not the worst AV in this world and not the last one. This detection my be a false positive but it was push on the Stardock update channel.
May be more communication between Stardock and Eset should be a good idea.
Reply #10 Thursday, May 29, 2025 5:55 PM
May be more communication between Stardock and Eset should be a good idea.
You have no idea how many years/decades SD has communicated with ESET. Like c, Heisenberg's constant, and Avogadro's number some things just ain't gonna change.
Reply #11 Thursday, May 29, 2025 7:24 PM
May be more communication between Stardock and Eset should be a good idea.
You have no idea how many years/decades SD has communicated with ESET. Like c, Heisenberg's constant, and Avogadro's number some things just ain't gonna change.
Not in my mind to obvious one a historical issue. Never mind I'm client of both of you may be, with poor French English, I just want to have it simple. In fact I thought I was the last user of Fences (joke)
Reply #12 Friday, May 30, 2025 1:31 AM
May be more communication between Stardock and Eset should be a good idea.
You have no idea how many years/decades SD has communicated with ESET. Like c, Heisenberg's constant, and Avogadro's number some things just ain't gonna change.
Not in my mind to obvious one a historical issue. Never mind I'm client of both of you may be, with poor French English, I just want to have it simple. In fact I thought I was the last user of Fences (joke)
Ceci est une traduction Google. J'espère qu'elle n'a pas déformé votre langue maternelle ! Voici un article de 2014… il existe des articles antérieurs sur ESET.
Reply #13 Tuesday, June 3, 2025 7:18 AM
The new Color Picker in Fences 6 is a game changer when personalizing Fences. I change my desktop image quite often and I like to color coordinate my Fences with the desktop. The new Color Picker makes this so much faster.
Thanks Dev Team for adding this awesome feature!
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Reply #1 Wednesday, May 28, 2025 10:17 PM
Update is getting flagged as suspicious from ESET.