Download Stardock Fences 5.84: Organize Your Desktop Efficiently

Fences is an innovative software designed to help you organize your desktop efficiently. It allows users to hide desktop icons that are not in use and facilitates the arrangement of icons into movable groups known as “fences”. The growing popularity of Fences stems from its ability to automatically sort and group desktop elements—icons, shortcuts, and files—into user-defined fenced areas, significantly decluttering your PC desktop. With customizable settings, Fences creates organized, logical groupings that allow for quick access to your desktop items.

Key Features

Optimized for modern, high DPI monitors.
Design shaded areas to streamline your desktop organization.
Utilize the roll-up feature to minimize fences to the Title-bar for a neater desktop.
Quickly hide or reveal icons with a double-click on the desktop.
Set rules to categorize desktop icons efficiently.
Easily swipe between multiple fence pages.
Create a desktop portal from any folder.
Navigate folder structures from within a fence.
Full compatibility with Windows 10/11.

Fences 5.84 Changelog:

Introduced new functionality to reduce excessive User Account Control prompts.
Added a “Create debug package”option in the Troubleshooting section.
Implemented a new advanced (C++) logging feature for improved troubleshooting.
Updated internal package icons in the Win11ContextMenu package for new installations only.
Fixed rare issues where all icons could appear on the desktop upon startup of the app.
Resolved problems that prevented saving layouts when using older layout modes.
Improved resilience for desktop folders that are moved to removable drives.
Corrected the ‘number of times opened’ sorting error for items in a fence.
Fixed the issue where icons would bunch up at the bottom of the desktop.
Resolved the “layout stuck”problem.
New Feature: Ability to “Swap Screen Contents”in the Layouts tab, allowing users to adjust icon/group positions across multiple monitors. This can be found under the “Adjust displays”link.
Major Update: Users are transitioned to the new multi-monitor compatible auto layout adjustment system introduced in Fences v5.50, ensuring that group positions are preserved with various monitor setups.
Significant Improvement: Folder Portals now resize quickly, allowing for real-time visualization of their contents as you adjust sizes.
Compatibility Update: Enhanced Peek performance and reliability with the latest Windows Insider builds.
Compatibility Update: Addressed delays in displaying Folder Portals when syncing with services like Dropbox.
Compatibility Update: Roll-up Fence groups now remain expanded when interacting with Windows 11 Insider’s new file context menu.
Compatibility Update: Improved desktop icon spacing on the latest Windows 11 Insider builds, especially when changing DPIs or setting icon sizes to “large”.
Fix: Peek feature now supports multi-selecting files using the Control key.
Fix: Folder Portals correctly scroll with the mouse wheel by one icon at a time.
Fix: Resolved height issues with Folder Portals containing smaller icons on startup.
Fix: Addressed potential crashes when changing Windows system themes.
Fix: Resolved issues when using the pipe symbol “|”in the rules system title.
Fix: Rule picker now updates correctly when creating a new Fence group.
Fix: Mouse wheel functionality for resizing desktop icons is restored.
Fix: Prevented Peek from dismissing when performing a desktop lasso action outside the Peek area.
QOL Improvement: Double-clicking the “folder”or “up”icon in a folder portal’s title bar no longer triggers the roll-up action.