Re: Stardock Fences 3.0.5.12 2018 Crack Serial Key Download
Achmat Das
Fences helps you organize your PC by automatically placing your shortcuts and icons into resizable shaded areas on your desktop called fences. Its many customization features are what make Fences the world's most popular Windows desktop enhancement.
Eliminate clutter from your desktop - but keep your Fences where it's easy to find them - with our roll up feature. Double-clicking on a Fence's title-bar will cause the rest of the Fence to "roll up" into it, saving you valuable space. To reveal your fence, you can move your mouse over the title-bar or double-click it again to view the title and all of its icons as normal.
Create multiple pages of fences on your desktop and quickly swipe between them. To change to a different desktop page, just take your mouse cursor to the edge of your screen and click and drag. Then a new page of fences will be displayed. This feature provides greater control over how you can organize favorite programs, documents, websites and more.
Instantly clean up your desktop. Double-click any blank space on your desktop and your desktop icons will fade out. Double-click again and they will return. You can even pick icons and individual fences to exclude.
Fences can act as a portal to any folder on your PC. For example, your documents or pictures folders can be mirrored onto your desktop as a fence enabling quick access to their contents without adding clutter to your desktop.
Quoting liquidduane-o, reply 7
Have the same issue, no way to unlock Fences. Ran the purge app listed (run as Admin) and reinstalled Fences 4 from latest download version with no change in behavior; unable to unlock.
Should be some way through the "Configure Fences" settings frontend to lock/unlock Fences and not solely through right-click menu.
I have seen this issue in both the latest version of Fences 4 on three systems running Win10 and with latest Fences 3 under Win 11.
With Fences 4 under Win11, I do not see a Lock Fences option when clicking on a fence or on the desktop.
Was mistaken earlier, I had one of my installs mixed up. It's three Fences 4 installs, one under Win11 and two under Win10; and an install of Fences 3 under Win10.
Than, I suggest looking at what unique software installed on all these systems. Same anti virus most likely which blocking Fences from working properly. Also check in your task manager if fences appear in your Startup tabs (need to be listed twice) something like screenshot below.
Started drawing new fences without restoring a backup. Drew four fences and started changing roll up settings, setting opacities, and pixel margins through Configure Fences frontend. Lock fences option in right click menu disappeared again.
It is tied to the "Show Labels" option under "Color & Appearance". Setting to "Never" removes the menu option from the right click menu, while "On Mouseover" and "Always" shows Lock Fences in the right click menu.
Quoting liquidduane-o, reply 17
It is tied to the "Show Labels" option under "Color & Appearance". Setting to "Never" removes the menu option from the right click menu, while "On Mouseover" and "Always" shows Lock Fences in the right click menu.
My trail ran out for fences a long time ago. It still functions but you cant move any fences around or add any more icons into them. I decided to uninstall and when I click on the uninstall.exe in my fences folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Fences\uninstall.exe) it gives the error message
What do I do now? And I can't just delete the folder because the program is in use. I booted in safe mode, safe mode with command prompt, no uninstallation or deletion can happen. I tried running the install.exe to hopefully repair some files, that didn't work. I do not want to have to reinstall windows just for this.
Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Try this, go to taskbar manager, Go to startup tabs see if Fences still listed there(twice). Disable both from startup there. Reboot, try uninstall again. If still fail, try, purge steps as mention here : [Link]. Reboot after the purge. Retest and report back here.
So, I hate trying to drag and resize fences, I can almost never get them correctly sized or spaced and while it helps my desktop organization, the offsets just bug me. Is there a way to manually size them numerically?
You can use regedit to manually edit the position and size of fences. I don't know that you can easily create new fences this way (It almost looks like stardock is using the registry like a relational database), but the sizing part is easy. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Fences\Groups. I just exported the registry key and modify the text file, then run it to load it back into the registry. Much easier than the drag to resize interface.
[fence id][left position][top position][width][height][???][fence name][followed by several lines concerning monitor data, not sure what these are for but they don't need to be editted for positioning]
The upgrade between 3 and 4 was not free, but if you purchased 3.x a little time before 4.0 came out it would have been a free upgrade. This is the same as v5 is free to those who purchased v4 recently.
Stardock have never sold a version of any software to the best of my knowledge which includes all new major versions for free. How it works is you buy Fences 3 and you get all of the 3.x updates but a 4.0 is a paid extra (unless within the free upgrade window). This is how it has always been.
You can buy a new "lifetime" Fences 5 license outright at the cost of 3 x the yearly subscription (not sure on the upgrade) but considering that version 4 is only 1.5 years old, they are trying to make the subscription the "value" item.
I'm even considering moving back to W10 just because of missing the functionality of Bins. Everything that I did with one click now takes two or three clicks. It works on StartAllBack, but it crashes every minute or so. Sigh.
A permanent Fences 5 license is definitely priced as a luxury item and should be considered one. If you are able to dish out lots of money on software per year it could be considered. I wouldn't expect the average stardock user to purchase this though. I really do hope a Fences version loses it's luxury price tag eventually (maybe on steam)
In my opinion, the idea of annual subscriptions just for Fences is very fuzzy right now and would be considered my least recommended way to get Fences 5. I will explain why. Windows 12 is expected to be released later this year and with it comes a bunch of unknowns. No one knows what Microsoft will be changing and no one knows what compatibility may be broken if any at all. Along with all the unknown's from Microsoft comes an equal amount of unknown's from stardock marketing strategy on how they will deliver their software to Windows 12. A potential problem could be this; All stardock software may become subscription based. If you want multiple software you may get trapped in single subscriptions with multiple products. This makes zero sense. The only sensible option with multiple products is object desktop as all software is bundled together
I was previously using a single licence of Fences 4 on 2 or 3 different machines simultaneously with no issue, but it has now popped up stating that I can only utilise it on one machine. This wasn't the case previously, so it also appears they are enforcing single licences for the first time (for Fences anyway). I have had Groupy running on 2 different machines on a single licence for many years, but am guessing that will also change.
I have written the company with the same complaint... What do you mean by lifetime. IF for only Fences 5 then it has to last for 3 years to equal out or its not equitable. I did a survey and got a 20 percent discount, but I guess I didn't wait for the server to update and I was changed the 9.99 ignoring the discount. So I've asked for my money back and an explanation of what lifetime means.
I'm on 4, my wife's new machine is on 3 cuz I can't buy another 4 and the only difference is that 3 doesn't lock!
BTW 3 was offered to handle 3 machines, 4 a single machine. Will see what they do. Its not the 9.99 that matters, its
this subscription model. Between Godaddy and all the updates yearly and other software companies, subscriptions are a headache.
Quicken went that route with a difference. used to be 69.95, now 49 a year but there are no more versions like 11, 12, 13.
They just continually upgrade their product. That works out well.
Stardock are clearly trying to ensure that you don't "own" your software anymore unless you pay them an ongoing fee. From a consumer point of view, many many people don't consider this customer friendly.
I agree. There is hardly any new functionality. The chameleon functionality is not new, it is a slightly tweaked version of what in Fences 3 is the Opacity setting. The only new feature is perhaps that you can show the fences in front of your programs. In the years of its existence there are hardly any new features. So I do not understand the steep increase in price.
Another issue I have is that when I upgraded to version 4, there were some issues. The support I received was inadequate and did not resolve my problems. I did not get a refund. So this aspect also did not improve.
There should be an "upgrade" sku. Making people purchase full price for a couple of additional features is not cool. Someone could argue there is not enough change in 6.x to deserve a major version bump.
Folks, Stardock is trying old-fashioned business management: turn one-time customers into permanent payers - and hope they forget about the auto-renewal. IBM tried this, when - decades ago - they tried to move millions of users from purchase to rental. And we can see today, where this got big IBM. So - let's stay on 4 and wait for MS to include a similar feature in their release in the release of W12 at yearend.
Quoting Stoneybrook, reply 18
To add to this, I subscribed to 5, and 6 months in, I'm getting requested to enter a product key every day. If I ignore it, I have limited functionality. If input my key, it's happy for a day.