Arrange your Messed up Desktop with Stardock Fences

A messed desktop with full of icons is not only ugly but unproductive as well. Sorting these icons is another headache. To tackle this issue Stardock has come-up with an application called Fences, which arranges icons into groups. With Stardock Fences, you can group your desktop icons into shaded blocks or fences and label them. For instance, you can create a Game Fence and add all your game shortcuts into it. This makes your desktop look neat and productive.

my-fence

Once installed, you can either choose a layout or create your own fence. Once your create fences, adding icons is as easy and drag and drop. You can relocate a fence by just dragging it over to a new place or resize it by holding the outer edge and dragging.

fences

It also takes snapshots of your desktop to give you the before-after view and adds the ability to restore your desktop. The default color of the fences is grey, but it can be customized to any color and you can also change the transparency to make your desktop look neater.

fences-transparency

Overall, I think this is a bright idea and this is something I’d like to see running in windows out-of-the-box. You can download Fences for free from here (6.35MB).

This post was published by on April 17, 2009

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  • http://www.blazing-tech.com Hilmar

    This sounds like a neat little application. Still, if I would want to organize the icons on my desktop I would just make my own background in Photoshop and add some groups to it. That’s mainly because I don’t like to have many Startup applications.

  • http://www.seosheen.com/ Social Media

    sounds good. during net surfing i got this technique. i had made many folder for partitions of my different applications. My Fences has solved my problem. its really good , superlative and provide sequential arrangement to your desktop. thanks for sharing.