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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.
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.


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<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Key Features </h2>
*Create shaded areas to organize your desktop
*Peek™ brings your fences on top for instant access
*Roll up fences to the Title-bar for cleaner desktops
*Define rules to organize your desktop icons
*Swipe between multiple pages of fences
*Designed to match Windows 10 and Windows 11 themes
 
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Automatically organize your desktop apps, files, and folders </h2>
Organize your PC by automatically placing your shortcuts and icons into resizable shaded areas on your desktop called fences that are designed to match Windows 10 and 11. Fences has many customization features that make it the world’s most popular desktop enhancement.
 
===Keep your desktop effortlessly organized.===
Organize your PC by intelligently placing your desktop content into shaded areas called fences.
 
*'''Customized to your workflow'''<br/>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Automatically have files sorted into fences on your desktop with our extensive automation rules or manually add your own files and folders.</p>
 
*'''Personalized to your preferences'''<br/>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Easily change the size, colors, transparency, sorting, and more.</p>


<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Key Features </h2>
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*NEW! Use fences on modern, high DPI monitors.
 
*Create shaded areas to organize your desktop.
 
*NEW! Blur the wallpaper behind fences on Windows 10.
===Enhance your productivity with unique features.===
*NEW! Roll up fences to the Title-bar for cleaner desktops.
Powerful features like Peek and folder portals will enhance your productivity.
*Double click the desktop to hide or show icons.
 
*Define rules to organize your desktop icons.
*'''Folder portals are essential'''<br/>
*Swipe between multiple pages of fences.
<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Folder Portals allow you to mirror any folder to your desktop for quick access to your most important content.</p>
*Create a desktop portal from any folder.
*NEW! Navigate the folder structure from within the fence.
*NEW! Windows 10 compatibility.


<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Organize </h2>
*'''Your content is a Peek away'''<br/>
===Roll up Fences===
<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Instantly access your files, folders, and applications with Peek by pressing Winkey + Space to bring your fences on top of all your windows.</p>
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.


===Desktop Pages===
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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.


===Desktop Quick-hide===
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.


<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top:0.875em"> Control </h2>
===Create a workspace with no distractions.===
Advanced Fences functionality makes it easy to quickly clean up your desktop.


===Automatic desktop organization===
*'''Chameleon™'''<br/>
Define rules for how your icons are arranged on your desktop and Fences will automatically sort new icons into the fences you have chosen based on your rules.
<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Desktop icons fade into the background but remain easily accessible to create a distraction-free desktop.</p>


===Folder portals===
*'''Desktop Quick-hide'''<br/>
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.
<p style="margin: 0 0 0 22px;">Double-click any blank space on your desktop and your icons will fade away.</p>


===Customize your Fences===
[[File:Fences-feature3.png|400px]]
Quickly personalize the labels, background colors and transparency of your fences from the easy to use configuration menu.




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<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Fences Resources</h2>
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Fences Resources</h2>
*[[Fences History|Fences History]]
*[[Fences History|Fences History]]
*[[Fences Changelog|Fences Changelog]]
*[https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/history Fences Changelog]
*[[Fences System Requirements|System Requirements]]
*[[Fences System Requirements|System Requirements]]


<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Fences Tutorials</h2>
<h2 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; margin-top:0.875em"> Fences Tutorials</h2>
*[https://www.wincustomize.com/article/510606/ Five Easy Ways to Improve Your Workflow]
*[https://www.wincustomize.com/article/510554/ Bringing Fences 4 to the Office]
*[[3 Tips for Using Stardock's Fences 3|3 Tips for Using Fences 3]]
*[[3 Tips for Using Stardock's Fences 3|3 Tips for Using Fences 3]]
*[[Using Stardock's Fences and Start10 Together|Using Fences and Start10 Together]]
*[[Using Stardock's Fences and Start10 Together|Using Fences and Start10 Together]]

Latest revision as of 16:28, 6 December 2023

Featured Trailer

Important Pages

About Fences

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.

Key Features

  • Create shaded areas to organize your desktop
  • Peek™ brings your fences on top for instant access
  • Roll up fences to the Title-bar for cleaner desktops
  • Define rules to organize your desktop icons
  • Swipe between multiple pages of fences
  • Designed to match Windows 10 and Windows 11 themes

Automatically organize your desktop apps, files, and folders

Organize your PC by automatically placing your shortcuts and icons into resizable shaded areas on your desktop called fences that are designed to match Windows 10 and 11. Fences has many customization features that make it the world’s most popular desktop enhancement.

Keep your desktop effortlessly organized.

Organize your PC by intelligently placing your desktop content into shaded areas called fences.

  • Customized to your workflow

Automatically have files sorted into fences on your desktop with our extensive automation rules or manually add your own files and folders.

  • Personalized to your preferences

Easily change the size, colors, transparency, sorting, and more.


Enhance your productivity with unique features.

Powerful features like Peek and folder portals will enhance your productivity.

  • Folder portals are essential

Folder Portals allow you to mirror any folder to your desktop for quick access to your most important content.

  • Your content is a Peek away

Instantly access your files, folders, and applications with Peek by pressing Winkey + Space to bring your fences on top of all your windows.


Create a workspace with no distractions.

Advanced Fences functionality makes it easy to quickly clean up your desktop.

  • Chameleon™

Desktop icons fade into the background but remain easily accessible to create a distraction-free desktop.

  • Desktop Quick-hide

Double-click any blank space on your desktop and your icons will fade away.

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