After a fence reaches a certain number of icons, they go wherever they want

After a desktop fence reaches a certain number of icons, new icons go wherever they like.  That is, it works fine until there's about 2 scrolling pages of icons; after that, whenever any icons are added, they go to some random place (often much higher) and refuse to be moved any lower.  Anyone know of a solution to this behavior?

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Reply #1 Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Need to know more on your system.

  1. You on Windows 7,8,10 or 11? Also, need to know its full version number. Use Winver.exe.
  2. You on Fences V3 or V4? Also, need its full version number.
  3. How many icons you have to have in your Fence when you started to see this behaviour?
  4. Please post a video of this issue so we can understand it better.

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 Top

Howdies.  As requested:

1. Windows 10: 22H2 (19045.2364)

2. V4: 4.0.7.2

3. Somewhere around 112 icons consisting of 28 rows of 4 icons per row.

4. There's confidential data in the icon names, but I'll be more detailed.  This has happened in all 3 desktop fences of the same size.  Let's say I have 4 icons with the names: "z_Apple", "_Apple", "cApple", "Apple".  That being the first row.  Then, I have: "z_Blip", "_Blip", "cBlip", "Blip", as the second row, and so forth.  Somewhere around the 28th row (let's say I am trying to move in "z_Monkey", "_Monkey", "cMonkey", "Monkey"), any of those icons, the moment they are moved in, will go somewhere random, for example, between "_Blip" and "cBlip".  From then on, every new icon moved in will go right to that random point (right before the previous random location).  Some time later, new icons moved in will find themselves in another completely random placement, with the same behavior.  Any attempt to move them somewhere else will move them back to the same previously random placement.  If there is any attempt to move them sometime later, they will find themselves at a new random location.

Reply #3 Top

These moving icons are on your desktop on within a dedicated Fence? I think it is best if you can post a video showing us the issue so we can understand it better.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant