Rolled up fence causes icon text to bleed through

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Just bought Fences. What an incredible, useful program is it!

Unfortunately, the text below my desktop icons is still partly visible when a fence is rolled up. Especially of those icons that have 2 lines of text.

That bleeding disappears if I make the fence longer, which I don't want to. The bleeding also disappear momentarily if something changes on the desktop.

Any solution?

See screenshot here.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Can you post more information on your system please. We need to know:

  1. You on Windows 7,8,10 or 11? Also post Windows full version numbers, use Winver.exe to get those.
  2. You on Fences V4.0.5.21?
  3. You on Single or multiple monitors? Need to know each resolution and scaling (100%,125% etc) of those monitors.
  4. The screenshot is from which monitor?

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks,

I am on Windows 11, Version 21H2 (OS Build 22000.795), MS Surface Pro 7+, Fences v. 4.0.3, says "Your copy of Fences is up to date.".

Until now I used Fences with the Surface screen only, however widows knows I have a second large screen monitor.

Screen resolutions Surface: scale 300%, 2736 x 1824. Unfortunately, I don't have the specs of the 4k 25" screen over here.

Sceernshot: from the Surface 7+.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Just as a test, try drop the resolution on your Surface Pro to 100%, does the issue appear then? If not, try increase it step by step : 125%,150% etc until the issue appear. Report back your findings. Remember you need to log off and log in again every time you change the scaling. You can turn the 300% resolution back after the test is done.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Think I found it. My Windows 10 desktop depended on Desktop Restore and compressed icon spacing. A way to have some basic features like Fences. With Fences, I don't need the reduced vertical spacing (yet?) and it's a much better approach.

I changed the icon spacing in the registry to default values, and later on to reduced horizontal spacing to -800. The bleeding is gone! So it seems that the vertical Icon spacing is causing the bleeding.

Thanks for your responses.