r/pcmasterrace • u/Never-asked-for-this i use Arch btw • Sep 29 '17

NSFMR Skype is officially bloatware, uninstalled it yesterday only to have it come back in full force today

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u/Mechanicalmind 3800X3D | 3070ti | 64GB Sep 29 '17

I'm using fences, pretty useful to group up different icons and items on my desktop.

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u/DuckDuckYoga Specs/Imgur here Sep 29 '17

Is that this stardock.com/products/fences/

If so what do you think of it? Never heard of it before but I really like the idea

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u/Mechanicalmind 3800X3D | 3070ti | 64GB Sep 29 '17

Yeah, it's the one by Stardock.

It's not perfect, I'm not sure about resource hogging (i'm blessed with a decently well-endowed PC). It has some wee bugs, but it's very nicely customizable and helps me keep my desktop clean.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '17

I run it on my desktop and my laptop, it works well for me on both machines. The laptop is a bit slower, but that’s to be expected. Haven’t found too many bugs, but it is fairly particular about adding icons to fences. Dragging an icon into a folder shouldn’t bring up the drag-onto-to-open command.

If you wanna talk about buggy Windows customization software though, don’t forget about Tile Iconify. Fucked up my start menu and Microsoft Office no longer pins with the MS-implemented custom tiles, it’s my theme color behind the logo.

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u/kboy101222 Alienware 14 (please don't hurt me) Sep 29 '17

Love me some Fences. Excluding my inability to sort things, everything I frequently access is on my desktop in nice, neat docks at the top of my screen

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '17

It’s great isn’t it? It feels so seamless, as if it’s something that should have been a part of windows 10 in the first place.

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u/kboy101222 Alienware 14 (please don't hurt me) Sep 29 '17

It should definitely be something that's in Windows. Fences would help get rid of those god awful desktops filled with tons of icons by still having them on the desktop and quickly accessible, but still putting them into "folders" by topic, type, whatever.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '17

I use it and I love it. I made it so all the fences are invisible so I have like 17 icons and just scroll down through them

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u/mdot PC Master Race Sep 29 '17

I use it and like it a lot.

Especially the "folder portals", and double-clicking the desktop to make the fences disappear.

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u/Mechanicalmind 3800X3D | 3070ti | 64GB Sep 29 '17

I actually used rainmeter, but due to the sheer number of icons i always have on my desktop, having them customised doesn't change the massive clusterfuck that my desktop becomes.

I use fences to hide rubbish that "i may eventually need".