Some ZDNet readers also noticed visual similarities to the Folderview feature introduced in KDE 4.1. Groupy Organize multiple applications into grouped tabs on your Windows desktop. Multiplicity Connect multiple PCs with one keyboard and mouse. DeskScapes Personalize your desktop background with animated pictures and video.
ĭ approved of the snapshots, and the ability to change colour schemes, but criticized the process of fence creation and the inability to sort icons into fences by type - a feature added in the Pro edition. Fences helps you organize your PC by automatically placing your shortcuts and icons into resizable shaded areas on your desktop called fences. Fences 4 Automatically organize your desktop apps, files, and folders on Windows 10 and 11. Fences is an excellent program that helps users bring order into a cluttered desktop. It's that good." A preview edition was listed as TechSpot's download of the week in February 2009. Next to roll up and navigating the folder structure from within a fence, users get support for high DPI monitors and Windows 10, and an option to blur the wallpaper behind fences on the Windows 10 operating system.
Reception Ī PC World reviewer praised the free edition of Fences, saying that "it wasn't five minutes after installing this program that I realized I'll be using it for the rest of my computing life. Snapshots can restore fences to a particular configuration after use. However, in any event, I shut down last night and rebooted this morning, and there were my icons & fences. A couple of mouse swipes and I see that this was the source of my confusion and dismay. ĭouble-clicking on the desktop hides all non-excluded fences and icons, while another double-click causes them to reappear. Ive only used these virtual displays in an Lynix environment, and frankly forgot that they were a part of Windows 10.
These fences can be individually created, named, moved, and resized - they will also display a scroll bar if necessary. Fences defines translucent areas on the desktop that contain groups of icons.