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Fences 4.07.01 Beta Feedback Thead

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With the Fences 4.0.7.01 beta release today, we are creating this thread so that users can report any observed issues.  

Obtaining the beta:

Object Desktop members can get the beta from within Object Desktop Manager with 'show beta downloads' enabled:

Individual purchases (as well as Object Desktop Members) can also be obtained from your account page:

https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products

For anyone wanting to test via a 30-day trial, they can get the installer from here:

https://cdn.stardock.us/downloads/public/software/fences/Fences4_4.07.01-j95-Setup.exe

Reporting an issue:

Please include the following for anything found:

  • Exact Windows version \ build (winver.exe)
  • Detailed steps to recreate the issue seen
  • Screenshots and videos are very helpful.  Videos can be uploaded to a cloud drive services (GoogleDrive, DropBox, OneDrive, YouTube) and link included in your post.  Images can be directly added.
  • If there are specific apps that the app does not work (well) with, please note what apps and their exact versions.  If any app is not common, a link to a trial version would be appreciated.

Thank you for your interest and any time you put into making Fences a better product.

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Reply #76 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting kungfujoe, reply 75

And yet, if Fences isn't installed, none of that is necessary. Hasn't been necessary since before Windows 7. It's not even necessary with other apps that overlay on the screen. They don't have this problem, nor does the OS, and nor do the drivers. Fences does, and has for years.

Regardless of whether the devs can figure out how to fix it, it should at least be logged as a known bug.

Are you saying that after you update video drivers you have never had to do anything to any app on your PC?  Are you also saying that - without exception - every single time you update your video drivers you have issues with Fences?

Neither has been steadfast in our experience. 

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Reply #77 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting sdRohan, reply 76
Are you saying that after you update video drivers you have never had to do anything to any app on your PC?  Are you also saying that - without exception - every single time you update your video drivers you have issues with Fences?

Neither has been steadfast in our experience. 

I've had other minor impacts from driver updates, sure. For example, if I have a very large non-fullscreen window open when installing a driver update, it'll resize down during the screen resolution reset, and not resize back up.  But normal windowed apps aren't supposed to automatically adjust up when the screen resolution increases, so that's not a bug, it's just how non-fullscreen window management works in Windows.

More to the point, yes, Fences screws up its locations every single time I update my video drivers since getting a monitor with a resolution higher than 1920x1200. Since the resultant size appears to match something on the order of 1920x1200, it's not surprising that it would not have had this problem with a smaller monitor.

So that means either something hidden-and-not-user-changeable in my Fences configuration is stuck based a previous configuration from a number of years ago (a bug), or Fences is set up to somehow have a maximum resolution that it'll scale back up to after a resolution decrease (a bug; but seemingly much less likely given that this isn't being reported by everyone with monitors larger than 24")

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Reply #78 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting kungfujoe, reply 77

So that means either something hidden-and-not-user-changeable in my Fences configuration is stuck based a previous configuration from a number of years ago (a bug), or Fences is set up to somehow have a maximum resolution that it'll scale back up to after a resolution decrease (a bug; but seemingly much less likely given that this isn't being reported by everyone with monitors larger than 24")

Which might be resolved with a purge and reinstall if you have not already:

https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#reinstalling

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Reply #79 from Stardock Forums Top

With the release of Fence 4.07.02, we are closing this thread.

Thanks to all of you for your feedback.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager