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I have sent a ticket request as well.

 

Windows 10, x64

Insider Preview.

Version 1511 (OS Build 14352.1002)

Dual monitors.

Fences installed fresh. 

Can create fences on desktop, or move existing fences. 

The configure fences window does not display in Windows at all, though taskmgr says it's running. 

Reduced 93%

Original 639 x 361

 

They will request you run a tool so we can get some data.

Hey man,

you can't expect them to push an update to fix stuff for each Insider Preview.

First of all, Insider Previews are buggy to start with, many things don't work on them. I've had a bunch of problems with my Anti-Virus (Kaspersky Internet Security) on the latest build and the one before that which blocked all access to the internet. So if you are using a "Preview Build" please only complain to Microsoft about problems with windows or really big issues with software that is important and not to every software company that has software that doesn't work on the latest beta build of windows. They don't have the time to make a version of Fences for every build of windows out there.

Kind regards,
Wissam 

Hey man,

I don't expect them to.. but the OS doesn't change at it's core by that much. Or, if it does, it's actually good we make posts like this. Then they know something big ischanging and can address it before it's rolled out to the masses.

Secondly. I'm not talking about Kaspersky. Thirdly, I'm not complaining. I'm requesting help with an issue for a product that I paid for TWICE. 

So.. as much as I appreciate your input, I think perhaps you can spend your energy worrying about yourself and your kaspersky problems. 

Regards.

Well, the Kaspersky problem was just an example. And it's not going to make the problem you have more important because you bought their product twice --"

 
Secondly, it doesn't even make sense to report a problem in a build as these builds don't even last a month and if they would fix it in your build, it could be bugged again in the next one.

So it's still not worth knowing the problem if it might be an entirely different problem by the time the Redstone update happens. And what you stated about the "Windows 10 insider builds that don't change much at its core." I don't know how long you have been an insider and if you have any computer/software/IT know-how, but I can tell you that I study computer science and was an Insider sins the start.

So I can tell you that Windows 10 Builds have huge changes that happen in the background, and every change can have a major effect on a bunch of software that's why they are only for insiders.

I hope that you get why they should not and probably don't care about Insider Preview Build problems and in fact, most software companies don't care about those because they are not worth knowing or fixing as a few builds down the line things might work again or might have totally different bugs.

Regards.
 

It's important to remember that Windows 10 is a 'public beta' itself, irrelevant of the Insider versions.

The issue of forced updating [without review/choice] makes it so.

However,

Stardock's [and anyone else's] programs are intended SPECIFICALLY for Public Releases of the MS OS, and not Insider/Private/Alpha/Betas.

The only bugs/issues actually relevant will be those pertaining to public releases of the OS.

Insider Previews aren't necessarily related to what becomes public anyway...;)

Yeah, totally agree !
It just doesn't make sense for you (the stardock/fences team) to even try and make something work on a Insider/Private/Alpha/Beta version of an OS for the reasons you just mentioned. I really hope that not to many people take up valubel debug time with these kinds of complaints :/ as I really love your software and am a Computer Science student myself so I know what you guys (the stardock/fences team) go through haha. Was trying to help.

I have installed Fences 3.01 trial under Windows 10. I have the same problem as in the version 2. It takes at Windows startup about 10 seconds until the fences and the icons are visible. If I disable the fences, the icons appear almost immediately.

Do you have portal fences that point to a network drive?  Fences may be trying to get to that network right away, failing (because it's not ready) and trying again later.

If so, support may have a solution. https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/default_import/Tickets/Submit 

I have no network drives on my pc.

without fence to fence transparency in seven and win8/8.1, opacity and by fence transparency become mostly useless, bye bye fences stacking and others desktop space efficient usages. roll-up and portal navigation was good idea, but not to that price... staying to fences 2!

I am not sure I understand.  Can you expand on this?  Perhaps with screenshots?  Thanks.

Please contact support so we can get a few more details about your configuration.  https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/default_import/Tickets/Submit 

this sort of use (and all derivative) is dead (at least for non win10 users) :

I would suggest an uninstall and reinstall as that should not be happening.  Ech fence should obstruct the one below it: http://screencast.com/t/ESgdLyDwOD 

> I would suggest an uninstall and reinstall as that should not be happening.
> Ech fence should obstruct the one below it: http://screencast.com/t/ESgdLyDwOD

this is not a bug, this is a fences 2 feature lost in fences 3. fences was not windows but desktop space delimiters. by introducing obstruction fences 3 not only loose a fences feature but also introduce unexpected behaviours like :

I understand.  I will alert the dev team.

Many thanks

hi guy! i have a problem, i can't open the fences customize, why? 

I've got the same problem after Windows 10 Build 14367 just upgraded my Pc without my permission.

Try reinstalling first. If you still have an issue please contact support.

https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit

I have been using Fences 2.13 on windows 10 for several months and it works just fine.

How does Fences 3.0 have windows 10 support?  

Hello, I have some suggestions. I would really like to be able to create a 1 icon high fence without the extra spacing below. A 1 icon high fence is close to two icons high because of that.And the extra spacing isn't needed because there are no icons below it in the fence.

It would also be great if you could add an option to reduce that spacing for big fences with multiple rows of icons, there is really a lot of space between them that would allow for more icon rows if it could be reduced. 

Thanks!

Been using Fences for an age but I've "upgraded" to W10 - is the $9.99 for Fences 3 a one off payment or is it a yearly subscription? 

It's a one-time purchase, not a subscription.  If you've purchased a previous version of Fences you may also qualify for an upgrade discount, see "Own Fences 2.0?" at the bottom of this page:

https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/download.asp

Hey Stardock, I recently bought a license for Fences 3, and I have to say, the design of the app is fantastic, and it does just about everything I hoped for in such a program, and many things I hadn't thought of, but which are cool to have.

Fences is already feature-rich, but two features which I would enjoy having in Fences are:

- ability to dynamically scale icon sizes within a particular fence, via a slider

- ability to disable auto-organization of icons within a fence. I'd like to be able to have spaces inbetween icons that are in a fence, just as icons can be separated by spaces on the Windows desktop

The second feature is one I'd particularly like to have, as I uses spaces to help organize my files (which I have lots of on my desktop), and would like to do so even in fences, which I'd then set to 0% opacity, so that the whole thing only shows up on mouse-over.

But, overall, Fences is a very customization-friendly application, and it impresses me in not following the depressing trend of some companies to make modern apps have fewer and fewer ideas and features in them, as if one basic layout works for everyone.

That said, I have experienced some bugs with the program. Though, since getting everything set up the way I want it, I haven't had to deal with bugs much, and now the program, so far, just does its thing.

One bug would only sometimes happen, like maybe 10% of the time, or less, when right-clicking and choosing Configure Fences. The bug is that it would take multiple minutes for the Fences configuration window to appear, even if I repeated tried right-clicking and choosing Configure Fences again, and again. If I stopped trying to open the configuration window, and started using other programs, the Fences configuration window would appear after some arbitrarily period of time since I right-clicked the desktop and chose Configure Fences.

Another bug involved configuring a fence in a particular order of actions, which I don't recall right now, using the title bar setting button for a particular fence, and clicking on the title bar. Some series of 3 or 4 actions would reliably result in a bug... though I can't remember what it was. I spent a short amount of time setting things up, and I tested this order of actions to see if it produced the same issue repeatedly, and it did. I just can't recall in what way it bugged the window, or what the order of actions was.

Overall, Fences is a very slick, aesthetic, and convenient program. Thanks!