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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
- Date added: October 06, 2009
- Total Downloads: 827,676
- Downloads last week: 35,922
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 518 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on October 05, 2009
If you're losing the battle over your workspace to your desktop icons, a secret weapon is one click away. Fences quickly and easily organizes your icons into separate windows on your desktop, either automatically or manually. Labeling these boxes helps keep programs, photos, files, and Web links together, or you might choose to group by project rather than by file type. Whatever your logic, you'll be able to drag and drop fences (and the shortcuts within them) anywhere on your desktop.
You can furthermore drag and drop shortcuts anywhere, and resize the fence. A scroll bar pops up so you can find your icons in fences that you've resized to be smaller than their contents. In addition to sorting shortcuts, you can cleverly hide them completely by double-tapping the desktop; double-tapping again resurfaces them. Fences helpfully lets you exclude select fences from hiding. Customization tools can change the color scheme or take snapshots of your layout at any time, in case you'd like to switch among them without completely redoing your arrangement.
We just wish that creating a new fence was smoother and took fewer steps, and that you could create rules for certain files types to automatically download into specific fences. Perhaps we'll see that in a future premium version. In the meantime, we recommend Fences to anyone looking for a fast, fresh solution to persistent desktop clutter.
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Publisher's description
From Stardock :Fences lets users clean up their desktop icons in moments. Users draw "fences" on their desktop which enables users to drag and drop icons into them. Users can have fences show and hide by double-clicking on the desktop. In addition, users can control which icons show and hide when the desktop is double-clicked on allowing for easy desktop clean-up.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 518 votes
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Version: Fences 1.0
Pros: Did exactly what it said it would do.
Cons: A few more keystrokes than normal if you "fence" applications in small areas. Does not however mathch the time spent looking for applciations on a cluttered desktop that changes often.
Summary: Been searching for somethng to clean the mess up on my desktop as I support virtually all the software applications in my CPA firm even if I don't use it and would normally not need the application on my workstation. This application has allowed me... read more >>
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Version: Fences 1.0
"Excellent help organizing my messy desktop"
Pros: Needed this, I dump everything on my desktop and its often hard to organize, this helps.
Cons: I don't like that when you put an item on the desktop that it automatically moves to the lower left (I prefer that it stays right where I put it).
Summary: This is a must have if you keep more than a couple dozen icons on your desktop.
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Version: Fences 1.0
"A perfect way to organize your desktop"
Pros: Easy to set up and use.
Cons: Hopefully this isn't like the last version where it expires after a month.
Summary: A perfect way to organize your desktop.
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Version: Fences 1.0
Pros: Does what they say
Cons: need control of more variables hopefully in coming updates
Summary: I like it as is and look forward to a more rebus utility app in near future
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Version: Fences 1.0
Pros: Keps it all in a very organized way.
Cons: None--None
Summary: I like being organized. Fences likes that also.
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