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Fences is a unique program that allows you to draw highlighted shaded areas on your desktop that become moveable and resizable for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer desktop, solving the problem of “constant clutter” that has plagued the desktop since its inception.

Fences also help you finally appreciate the wallpaper you’ve been hiding behind all that clutter. In addition to the organizing features, Fences offers a new quick-hide feature (in-patent process). Double click on the desktop and all your icons will disappear. Double click again and they will return.

Characteristics

• Create shaded areas to organize your desktop
• Peek brings your fences to the top for instant access
• Roll up fences to the title bar for cleaner desktops
• Define rules to organize your desktop icons
• Swipe between multiple pages of fences
• Designed to match Windows 10 and Windows 11 themes

Organize

Organize your PC by automatically placing your shortcuts and icons in shaded, resizable areas of your desktop called fences designed to match Windows 10 and 11. Fences has many customization features that make it the world’s most popular desktop enhancement.

Fence Peek

Instantly access your files, folders and applications with Peek by pressing Winkey + Space to bring your fences over all your windows. Save time and be more productive by creating folder portals to access frequently used content at a glance.

Roll up fences

De-clutter your desk, but keep your fences where they’re easy to find with our roll-up feature! Double-clicking on a fence’s title line will “roll up” the rest of the fence into it, saving you valuable desktop space. To reveal your fence, you can move your mouse over the title bar or double-click it again to see all the icons as normal.

Directory portals

Fences can act as a portal to any folder on your PC. For example, the document or photo folders can be mirrored on the desktop as a fence that provides quick access to the contents without adding clutter to the desktop.

Customize your fences

Quickly customize the labels, background colors and transparency of your fences from the easy-to-use configuration menu.

Desk Quick hide

Clean up your desktop immediately. Double-click an empty area on the desktop and the desktop icons will fade out. Double click again and they will return. You can even select icons and individual fences to exclude.

Desktop pages

Create multiple pages of fences on your desktop and quickly swipe between them. To switch to another desktop page, simply move the mouse pointer to the edge of the screen and click and drag. Then a new page with fences will appear. This feature gives you more control over how you can organize your favorite apps, documents, websites and more.

What is new

• Fixed “UI error while trying to set up new rules in Organize pane” bug reported today. No known instigator / breach date. Patched around.
• Added to allow users to choose between rounded and 90 degree angle corner edges in the fences configuration (OS default)
• Added email request on trial activation
• Reactivated touch functions. This includes using two fingers to switch between desktop pages (enabled by default) and the ability to “sneak” icons into fences (disabled by default). Both are options in the settings, on the “Desktop Pages” and “Layout and * snapping” tabs respectively.
• Fixed fences do not appear on the desktop/exist off-screen, out of bounds
• Fixed fence changing icons to hidden third column
• Fixed show my desktop issue reactivated with information
• Fixed issue with folder portals and visibility
• Fixed issue with name based rules and right click
• Fixed issue with bottom aligned secondary screens causing offset portal fences
• Fixed a crash issue haunting support where a target folder location was changed
• Fixed issue with configuration interface going blank
• Fixed issue where fences were not displayed on the desktop when they existed off-screen, out of screen resolution
• Fixed issue with new files defaulting to the second screen
• Fixed issue with show desktop button in Windows when an active modal window was displayed in Fences
• Fixed issue with not being able to drag desktop pages when the taskbar was on the left or right
• Fixed issue with excluding icons from quickhide (like .website)
• Fixed issue when folder portal opacity was set to 0%
• Fixed where rules didn’t stick if assigned via right click/…
• Removed fences as a control panel item (kept causing problems)