Devo85x

February 09, 2009 at 5:06am

Normally when people say stardock i think of constant crashing, instability, and bad system performance for their free apps... but this looked cool and maxpc said they didnt have stability problems so i decided to try it out, now I officially love it! I installed it on both windows xp and vista (dual boot) and am going to recomend thi s to some of my friends/computer teacher

Keith E. Whisman

February 08, 2009 at 10:27pm

I installed it in Win Vista Home Premium 64Bit and it seems to work good. NIS2009 shows that my CPU usage is about what it was before I installed Fences and it seems to be pretty neat. I think I will keep it and try it on Win7 Beta 1 64Bit. 

PS if you double click an open area on your desktop all the fences disapear. Pretty neat. 

K0BALT

February 08, 2009 at 12:34pm

More BS to clutter your computer with

K0BALT

February 08, 2009 at 12:33pm

why not just make of folder of certain things and put your stuff in there. whats the difference?

Pball1224

February 08, 2009 at 9:35am

Do any of you remember windows 3.1? It had folder like containers that could always be open on the desktop and have grouped shortcuts.

Frameboy

February 08, 2009 at 7:58am

I bought Windows Blinds and had issues getting to work consistantly on my Vista 64 machine...  I got a reply from their support EVERY 5th DAY!  It was nutty.  Even then it was a reply with steps that I had already done and TOLD THEM I did.  ie, Disable Antivirus.

I had to get Paypal involved to get a refund.  

I post this so people who are considering Stardock will know what they are getting into.

Rhor

February 08, 2009 at 5:33am

I haven't tried the program yet, but doesnt the following link have the same idea?http://rhor.deviantart.com/art/April-2008-Desktop-81495636

Keith E. Whisman

February 08, 2009 at 1:48am

This isn't fair but I'm going to state it anyhow. I've noticed that software from Stardock has a history of using up more resources than appears necessary. On my old P4 system using Object Dock and other StarDock software I noted a significant slowdown. I recently tried using their GUI Theme utillities and noted a slowdown in my Windows performance with my E8400CPU. I shouldn't have detected any kind of slowdown at all. I'll give this one program a try but if it's like the rest of their software it's going to be more of a hinderence than a positive experience.

yar1182

February 08, 2009 at 12:26am

Fences is doing something weird with ultramon. I am no longer able to span a wallpaper over two monitors. Half of the wallpaper is repeated on both monitors or the same wallpaper is releated on both monitors (based on wallpaper width)

cappomutato

February 08, 2009 at 12:14am

I've looked closely at the stardock offerings because I'm a Sins... owner, but I've never understood what appears to be their main business.  Rebuilding the OS user experience?  Maybe it's because I'm from DOS, but I don't see any OS problem that I can't work around for free.  All these shells don't seem to offer anything new.

blackcat77

February 07, 2009 at 11:32pm

I still prefer Object Dock, which also has a fully-functional free version.  The main advantage of that program is that you can set it to hide the icons off screen until you move your cursor to the edge of the screen where the dock is located.  And it will bring the icons to the top of maximized windows whereas if you use Fences to hide the icons on your desktop, you have to click on an empty spot on the desktop to make them visible again.

ahenkel

February 07, 2009 at 11:25pm

very cool i'd like to see the fences more like mini 3d cubes though

 

 

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