Stardock Lets You Fence In Your Icons

[Hooch Tan]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/02/05/neowin-review-fence-your-desktop-with-stardock-fences' target='_blank'>http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/...stardock-fences</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Stardock's Fences exactly addresses this issue. It allows you to organize your desktop icons and create fences. Visualize fences as blocks of icons (shaded areas) grouped together. Now it becomes very easy to organize my icons using Fences according to the categories I had arranged earlier!"</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1233941842.usr20447.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>Neowin has put up a quick review of the community preview of Stardock's Fences which is available free directly from the Stardock website.&nbsp; Fences is for all you people out there, you know who you are, whose desktops are all a flutter with icons.&nbsp; Instead of your desktop being one big open free for all, Fences corrals all your pictures, documents, shortcuts and who knows what else into neat little groups.&nbsp; The concept is simple, but Stardock looks to have made handling fences really easy.&nbsp; I'll admit that I keep my desktop very spartan so Fences may not be for me, but it grinds my gears when I see friends whose desktops look like a troop of 2 year olds have gone through it.&nbsp; Now I have at least one program I can suggest to them to clean their act up.</p>

[Jason Dunn]

I try to keep my desktop icons organized, but I do have quite the mess at the moment - I use it as a working space for things I need to blog on, notes I've taken, etc.

[Bob12]

I have NO icons on my desktop - they're all sorted into custom toolbars that I've placed on the toolbar which I expanded, auto-hid, and moved to the left side of the screen.

[Pony99CA]

I have NO icons on my desktop - they're all sorted into custom toolbars that I've placed on the toolbar which I expanded, auto-hid, and moved to the left side of the screen.
I pretty much have only the standard Windows icons on my desktop (in case somebody needs to use my PC) plus a Desk folder. The Desk folder contains other folders of programs by category (Business, Editors, Graphics, Communications, Games, etc.). I usually cut the icons out of the Start menu and paste them in the appropriate folder.

That's similar to how OS/2 worked, and I've kept with it through Windows 95, XP and Vista.

I can even copy the folders back into the Start menu so that people who like the Start menu can find things.

Steve

[Bob12]

Similar concept but I have the advantage of being the only user of my computer so I don't have to make allowances for others. :)

[John Lane]

I love it. If I don't have both monitors on, Vista has an annoying habit of moving all the icons to one screen and in no order whatsoever. I love Stardock Fences!