Quick-hide exclusion list bug

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For some reason the quick-hide feature seems to have an extra copy of "My Documents" in it's list of quick-hide exclusions.  When I enable the exclusion for My Documents, two copies of it are shown in the list.  I haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling to see if that would fix it, but I have tried disabling and enabling Fences to see if that would do anything but it didn't.  Below is a combined screenshot showing both states.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yikes! Well I'll tell you what you CAN do, if you're familiar with your System Registry.

1) Open your registry editor
2) Go to the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Fences\Settings
3) Look for the setting "Exclusions"
4) Edit its value, setting it to being blank

Also, before you blank it out, you could copy it down and paste it into a message back here if there's nothing sensitive about it, and I could look to see whats wrong :) Thanks

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yup, that worked. :)

 

Here's the value that was causing the problem:

c:\documents and settings\administrator|My Documents?

 

After removing the code above, I decided to enable the quick-hide exclusion for "My Documents" and copy the value for that.  Here is the value it set:

c:\documents and settings\administrator\my documents|My Documents?

 

The difference is pretty clear.  It looks like the first part of the value tells it what folder or file to exclude and then the second part (after the vertical bar) gives it the name to display in the Fences settings window.  Meaning that it was most likely trying to exclude the "administrator" folder from the quick-hide feature, which is kinda pointless seeing how that folder isn't even on the desktop. :P  Anyhow, I'm glad that problem was solved.  Thanks!

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You got it right :) And thanks back for the info!