Hello,

---------------------
**NOTE***: Fences 1 & 2 is not supported for the Windows 10 Creators Update. If your efforts are to get Fences to work with this update, you need Fences 3:

https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/download.asp

A link at the bottom is for prior Fences owner discounts.

If you do have Fences 3, please continue with the below instructions.

-------------------

The following tool will purge the application (your settings and layout will be preserved).

**IMPORTANT** Please save any open documents/work and close out all of your applications including browsers. Your PC may restart after running this .bat file.

Please follow this link:

http://sd.stardock.com/zubaz/apps/Purge_Fences.bat

Save the file to your desktop, right click it and select "Run as Administrator" if you're on Vista/7/8/8.1/10

http://screencast.com/t/Zv5LzdG8W8

If you are running Windows 8/10, you may be notified that Windows is protecting your PC. Select "More info" and then "Run anyway".

Reboot the computer and reinstall the application.

For Stardock Direct Purchases:

Note: It is important to get the most recent version of the application. For getting your product and key, please see the following:

https://www.stardock.com/support/productkeyretrieval

For Steam Purchases:
Install from Steam and Steam only.

Please DO NOT change any of the default settings until you verify that the application is running as expected in its default state.

Restoring a prior Fences Snapshot:

Its IMPORTANT to ensure, after the purge and reinstall, that Fences is working as it should be. Please create a few new Fences manually, drag icons to them, make sure that your issue is indeed gone.

If Fences is indeed working as expected, please try restoring a previous snapshot:

-Right click on the desktop and select "Configure Fences..."
-Click on "Layout and snapping" on the left hand side of the configuration window that appears.
-Select a snapshot you wish to revert to. A preview window will appear showing you what the desktop will look like.
-Click Restore Snapshot to revert the desktop to this preview.

Again, test to make sure it is working as expected.

Please let me know whether this resolves your problem or if you have any additional questions.

Is this a work PC?  You using WebSense / Forcepoint?

----------------
Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

Then that is the issue.  ForcePoint will (and is well documented in other threads) interfere with Fences working properly in the fashion you mentioned (and why I asked it straight away).

----------------
Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

Hey Guys,

I think I have found a solution that works for me.

Instead of using Win+D to show desktop, use Win+M(minimize-all-in-win10).

This solves the problem that is fences restarts, redraws everytime show-desktop.

I used ahk to remap Win+D, to Win+M, which makes life easier.

#d::#m

Hope this is useful for others with same issue too.

Thanks for fences, its really useful to keep a clean organized desktop!

Thanks,

Vjatsd