STARDOCK FENCES TASK MANAGER INSTALL
STARDOCK FENCES TASK MANAGER SOFTWARE

I'll definitely give Portals a shot when I re-image this old laptop I have, again I appreciate your response. Personally when I upgraded from Fences 2 to Fences 3, I told myself I wouldn't bother upgrading when Fences 4 came along, but I got suckered into it because my friend wanted to use 2 of my 5 installs.

Imo, Stardock has a lot of ease-of-use and configuration options that make it second nature to use, but I do agree that they think a little too highly of themselves when they charge that much for each new version. I've definitely grown too accustomed to these features to give up, but I will definitely be contributing a little bit for the Portals app, as it does seem really cool. With Stardock, I use the roll-up feature, I also have two pages of Fences, as I run a secondary display, and obviously love the double click to hide as sometimes I like to have just my wallpaper on the secondary display. Thanks, I appreciate your opinion, and commend your efforts to give a concise comparison. I just can't fathom how Stardock thinks theirs should be worth $40 for each version update. Might even donate more later on because this is such a well-made piece of software.

STARDOCK FENCES TASK MANAGER INSTALL

I'll donate $5 for any computer I install it on. He asked for a minimum of $3, if you feel generous. Obtaining a license is actually free, but I donated $5. On first install, you won't have a lot of customization options. Even if you disable it, it will keep 3 DLLs loaded into explorer.exe (one of them for the context menu). The issue is that you cannot actually close Fences. I would suggest asking on their forums, they are also on Steam I think. Maybe he overlooked that, and I've also requested that feature on his GitHub page. You can restart explorer.exe in the task manager, that's about all I can offer. The only other little quirk I found is that there is not a minimize button for the main settings window.

Hiding desktop icons definitely does not hide the portal boxes.

STARDOCK FENCES TASK MANAGER SOFTWARE

If any new icons get automatically thrown on the desktop, for new software installs, I don't have to be bothered by it. I actually just right clicked and selected 'Hide Desktop Icons'.

It's a little strange, but all you have to do is hide the folder in its properties. Meaning, as soon as you make a portal, a folder is also added to the desktop. By design, each portal box is technically a folder on the desktop. The portal boxes are much more configurable. It's not as quick as making little fences with Stardock's product, but it has the exact same end result and looks cleaner. It does take a minute to wrap your mind around how the developer thinks. Brother, I switched last night, and I'm never looking back.

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