Fences by Stardock is a new tool for your windows desktop, that allows users to place icons in containers called, you’ve guessed it, fences. The premise is pretty simple and straight forward to use. When first installed you can use pre-set fences or create them yourself. To do this you simple right-click and drag a box on your desktop, you will then be asked if you want to create a fence. If you click on the dialogue box you can then name your fence.
Fences can be positioned anywhere you like on the desktop, and resized the same as windows. Once you are happy with your new fence you simply drag icons onto it. What this all means is that you can have a fence for office apps, a fence for games etc on your desktop without you needing to go to the start menu. If you are someone who has hundred of icons on your desktop or you don’t like to go through several menus to get to the program you want, then this is just for you. Some may claim this adds to the mess on your desktop, which is where fences is really clever. Simply double-click your desktop and all the fences hide. Double-click again to make them reappear.
Fences does of course run in the background, which takes up a bit of system resources. It also seems a bit sluggish at times to move around the desktop, but you won’t be doing that very much, and will depend on what other programs you are running at the same time. The free beta is running now until November so give it a go and see for yourself.
