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Fences 3.09 causes Windows to crash after boot up

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Fences 3.09 causes Windows to crash after boot up

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So after I reboot the PC and I go to my fences and windows crashes. I have reinstalled it 4 times and after the install, it works for a few weeks then it starts doing this. The only solution I have found is to reinstall it, but the install is temporary. It may not crash after ever reboot, but more often than not. Also if Fences cause windows to crash more than 3-4 times, windows will disable fences. I am forced to reboot again. If it fails a second time I usually just reinstall it again. Which I hate doing because I have to redo all my fences and icons... soooo frustrating.

Windows 10
Apex 4 (BOXX) PC
Quadro P4000
512 SSD
32GB RAM
i7-7700K CPU @ 4.2GHz

Regards,
Scott

fences
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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top

That's, why I have Process Monitor to try and help figure that out... Can you recommend what to be looking for?? Because it's just 1 of 7 fences that continues to fail? If it was all 7 causing the issue then I would totally understand your comment.

 

Prior to all this I was informed by Stardock support to upgrade to 3.0 since I was running windows 10 and I did that and its been like this ever since. Prior to that install, I was running 2.0 and never had an issue until after a windows 10 update. That is why I was informed to go to 3.0...

 

Reply #27 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Credence69, reply 26

Can you recommend what to be looking for?? Because it's just 1 of 7 fences that continues to fail? If it was all 7 causing the issue then I would totally understand your comment.
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That is the thing, however - were it a 'Windows native' issue, we would see an avalanche of reports like yours - we dont - and you would see it on your local admin account.  Knowing that, logic demands, and your new account test seems to prove, that it's something local (to the PC or WinAccount).

I have no idea, nor do we have the resources to offer to examine, what apps / setting / corp policies you may have that are causing Fences to fail.  Regrettably, for your main account, it would be process of elimination (disable app / setting / policy, try again, rinse and repeat).

This is also something your IT people should be able to help with.

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

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Reply #28 from Stardock Forums Top

Their solution as with most IT people would be to remove it. Never had this issue in Windows 7, it really sucks.

Reply #29 from Stardock Forums Top

Yesterday I removed the old fence. Remade it and gave it a new name and location. Its still doing it. I think now it might be something within the fence causing it to force explorer to crash. Have you had any issues with an item within the fence to cause a crash?

Reply #30 from Stardock Forums Top

I found a UNC link to a PC that has the printer shared that was within the fence. I removed it and placed it in its own fence and it crashed explorer after a reboot. So I think that is the problem. 

The way I understand fences I wouldn't think that a shortcut to a PC over the network would cause fences to crash explorer, but that's for you to decide if you want to look at this further.

Reply #31 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Credence69, reply 30

I found a UNC link to a PC that has the printer shared that was within the fence. I removed it and placed it in its own fence and it crashed explorer after a reboot. So I think that is the problem. 

The way I understand fences I wouldn't think that a shortcut to a PC over the network would cause fences to crash explorer, but that's for you to decide if you want to look at this further.
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While interesting, if you remove the link, and it works (no crash), that would be more telling.

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager