Icons hidden in rolled up fences appear on desktop when mouse is right clicked anywhere

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I have fences 3.0 installed on a Windows 10 OS. I have all my icons sorted into several fences, which are both rolled up and dimmed to 40%. Simply said, I am familiar with rolling up Fences, double clicking to hide fences, etc. I have Fences installed on over 4 PC's in the home.

 

Inexplicably one day a problem appeared. Whenever I RIGHT click on my mouse to cut or copy or paste something on the desktop, ALL the icons in all the Fences appear on the desktop, unfenced, in full view, and in the exact position they would be if the fence were rolled over and revealed. I can mouse over the title bar of the rolled up Fence, and the Fence "shadow" will rollup and rolldown behind the icons, but the icons remain in full view and unmoved.

 

The only resolution to "clearing" the desktop and getting the icons re-fenced is a reboot. Very annoying! Any and all help will be appreciated!!!

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Please try the purge and reinstall steps : https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#reinstalling

Just make sure to re-download the latest version from your account. Reinstall that version reboot and retest.

Report back here.

Thanks.

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Sadly, still doing it after doing exactly as requested. Curiously, if this script was supposed to TOTALLY erase the previous installation, it did not. Upon reinstallation I was still able to use a previous snapshot.

 

This is not a high priority, it is more of a nit. I can live with this, but it would be nice to fix it. Thanks for the help...

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

Next time it happen, try restart explorer.exe. If it solved you can make a .bat script and put it somewhere and use it when needed.


taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
start explorer.exe
exit

Thank you,

Basj
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks for the script. The problem still manifests itself when I right click on the desktop, however at least with this batch file now I don't have to restart Windows to clean it up. Would still love to know the root cause and fix it, but this workaround is very helpful. Thank you...