Fences disappear

Did you try double clicking on the desktop?

I tapped my foot twice outside and all my fences disappeared!

Same problem here.

I put up my fences, added my Icons in each, then logged out and logged back in (Win XP Home SP3)

The cursor still reacts to the fence but the transparency and Fence-names are invisible, it looks like my icons are in neat blocks.

If I resize the invisible fences the scrollbar pops up. They still function but I'd like the fence appearance to be visible again.

How did you configure them....

Open Impulse to the My Desktop tab. Find 'Fences'...uninstall fences, then reboot and reinstall.

Done... and now its reloaded however its invisible from the get-go. at least the first time I installed it I was able to enjoy them until I logged off.

Right click on the desktop and left click on edit fences and configure Fences the way you want.

Yeah, tried that, got no changes... however, on my 2 other profiles (my wife and kids, it works)

I went back to mine and I got an alret that there might be an install problem with Fences. So I  uninstalled/rebooted/reinstalled another 2 times I get proper function on the same 2 profiles, but the same invisible fences on mine.... grr...

So I looked for the folders in "Application data" and "program files" and deleted the folders after again uninatalling fences (in case its a setting).
Reinstalled again but to no avail, its still the same invisible fences for me, and nice fences for my wife and kids.

Is there something else I need to delete? I even renamed the undeletable ddl file left in the (my profile) program files/stardock... as well as ensured my (my profile) Application Data/Stardock... was also empty.

If you have Revo Uninstaller use that to uninstall your Fences. I think it's keeping a prior settings type folder despite the uninstall.

Revo Uninstaller is SUPER and it's free. No joke. Get it, and after, uninstall fences with it. It'll clean the Registry keys (for Fences only) as well.

Reboot.

Then do the install through Impulse and  I bet it'll be all bright and spiffy again.

I'm going to sign off. If this doesn't solve the problem, open a ticket at Stardock Tech Support. I'll be up early and check back.

If the problem is solved, please pm me to let me know.

Yep, got them back, hope they stay!

Thanks, the Revo Uninstaller worked.

One thing is very strange though, the uninstaller deep erased all files (max level), however after reinstalling fences, I went back to my wife and kids profile and expecting to redo the fences... however it was allready set up as I had left it before the uninstall.

Weird...you can always email Jeff Bargmann and let hi know what happened.

Thanks I'll do that,

FYI to those reading, REVO works but I'm having to use it after switching profiles after extended lengths of time. It seems to be only effecting the installing profile and not the others.

Well, I read all the posts. No way to have the fences re-appear: not by resing, nor re-setting parameters, not by double click (well, all the icons disappeared and reappeared as espected, but no fences or labels).

I had no problem uninstalling by fences uninstaller (only the link to the fences configuration tool stay on the desktop).

I think the tool is nice and userful, so tell me if I can give some kind of help (it is a beta version, anyway)

Yeah, I reinstalled them several times over now.

1] I've reinstalled after deleting them using Revo Uninstaller, I have functional and visible fences... until...

2] After switching profiles or restarting the computer, I have functional and visible fences on all other profiles except mine (the main profile that installed them in the first place)

I'm tempted to create a new profile and install fences with the new dummy profile to see if that will allow fences to work, lol.

I'll try that today and let the form know if it works. Laters...

That is very strange. Revo should be removing them all.

OK, EUREKA!

I tried using a dummy account to install... that didnt work... same thing.

So I looked at what was different from all the accounts, all the other accounts were using windows themes, except mine,

My "theme" was minimal with windows classic look, mainly because I like to save ram for rendering 3D artwork.

So I switched my theme back to the factory WindowsXP theme and NOW I SEE MY FENCES.

So I think its quite possible for the others having problems on this thread to try the default Windows XP theme or another theme (in my case its a Windows XP "Medion" factory preset theme).

You need to convey this to Jeff Bargman at Stardock along with your computer and OS info and the theme files. I have a feeling that the theme you were using was somehow interfering with Fences.

Yep, sent emails.

Fences still working fine!
Running the old "Windows Classic" with all animation/ram-eating options turned off seems to interfere with the way Fences works.

I think if one was to run through all of the options to turn off "performance options" one at a time, one might find the culprit.

Mine is now set at "best performance" general setting, at the time I was having the problems my setting were "custom" with most of the features turned off.

RKurbis & DrJBHL thanks both for looking so deep into this one!! RKurbis, unfortunatly I've tried reproducing with your suggestion and was unable to get it to break. Will try on a few other machines & more fresh installations though as well to see if I can reproduce! A question, through any of this did you have a wallpaper set, or just a solid color?

RKurbis...in the "best performance" setting, is your Acive Desktop on or off...this might have something to do with it. There was another post about Active Desktop interfering with Fences.

I had this same problem with disappearing fences, Active desktop was NOT active , I was not using a wallpaper I had a solid color (black).  Changing to windows xp theme did fix it (THANK YOU FOR THAT I REALLY LIKE THIS APP). 

I am using Winxp sp3.

To everyone who posted above... whether or not you're still having the problem, try updating to the latest update of Fences on Impulse. If my updates work like I hope they will, you won't be able to get your fences to not show up Let me know if it doesn't work out for you or <gasp> creates any fences-dont-show problems. (Particularly for solid-color wallpapers)

I've reverted to my old "plain" ram saving desktop theme, the new update works great so far.

Awesome desktop feature JMB, worth the tidbit of headroom. I hate going through the start popup to get to my programs (which I have too many) This utility organizes all my favorable programs in a nice constant layout, my wife loves it too.