Fences 4 does not deselect shortcuts after clicked + slower desktop experience

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I have 11 rolled up fences on my 49" samsung 32:9 screen.

Windows 11, Fences 4.22, Nvidia RTX 2080Ti, Ryzen 9 9300 CPU, 32GB ram

Everytime i doubleclick an icon, the application starts as regular, and the fence rollsup afterwards correctly.

But sometimes when if i select icons on the desktop thereafter and moves them to another folder, the program shortcut i clicked some time ago also is being moved out of the fence. It seems the program shortcut icon i doubleclicked sometimes is selected / highligted after the program was started. Ive seen this to be true after hovering my mouse over the rolled up fence, there i can see the icon is still selected.

 

This clearly must be a bug, because its creating annoying behaviour, where i keep moving out icons from my fence.

 

I have also noticed that if i right click desktop to create folders, or if i drag the adress bar from Edge or Chrome to create new shortcuts on the desktop to a web page, the icons in a roleld up fence also can move out from the fence. And the entire Desktop is very very sluggish in comparison to when fences is turned off..

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Need few more information from your system.

  1. Windows 10 or 11? Also need Windows full version/build number. Use Winver.exe to get it.
  2. Resolution and Windows scale factor (100%, 125%, 200% etc) on each monitor/s
  3. 11 Fences with how many icons in it?
  4. Please post videos on these issue so we can understand what is happening.

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Win11 23H2 22631.3447

5120x1440 125% scale

4-15 icons in each

It happends so randomly so its difficult to capture on video. The solution would be that you implemented a lock so icons cant be moved out or edited.

And regards to the UI slow/sluggish experience, its also difficult to show in a video, it must be experienced live. But quite noticable if you turn off or on Fences.

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