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  • P Pravarakhya

    Is any one using Fences[^], I just stumbled upon this yesterday, now my desk top is much organized and neat. I was looking for such a program for years now, and this is exactly what I have imagined.They said it works on Windows 7 too, though I have tried it on XP.

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    cjb110
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    I don't get this...if you have lots of icons on your desktop for commonly used docs/progs. Then surely you have said docs/progs open, and obscuring all the icons on the desktop???? I'd use taskbar folders instead, that way the icon is accessible what ever I'm running.

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    • P Pravarakhya

      Is any one using Fences[^], I just stumbled upon this yesterday, now my desk top is much organized and neat. I was looking for such a program for years now, and this is exactly what I have imagined.They said it works on Windows 7 too, though I have tried it on XP.

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      hairy_hats
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      I still prefer RocketDock, that way I don't have to bring the desktop to the front to find my links.

      I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine

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      • P Pravarakhya

        Is any one using Fences[^], I just stumbled upon this yesterday, now my desk top is much organized and neat. I was looking for such a program for years now, and this is exactly what I have imagined.They said it works on Windows 7 too, though I have tried it on XP.

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        Caslen
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        I use ObjectDock also by Stardock - never had any problems with it, worked first time and has always worked and my desktop is beautifully uncluttered!

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        • P Pravarakhya

          Is any one using Fences[^], I just stumbled upon this yesterday, now my desk top is much organized and neat. I was looking for such a program for years now, and this is exactly what I have imagined.They said it works on Windows 7 too, though I have tried it on XP.

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          eslsys
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          Have it installed on W7, its great, a nice little tool for the desktop and everything is easily found

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          • P Pravarakhya

            Is any one using Fences[^], I just stumbled upon this yesterday, now my desk top is much organized and neat. I was looking for such a program for years now, and this is exactly what I have imagined.They said it works on Windows 7 too, though I have tried it on XP.

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            billatchorus
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            I have Fences installed on several machines. For me its now a must have (ok a really like). I like the double click and hide all fences feature. I wish they had a hide this fence option, but you can achieve that effect by Excluding other fences from hiding. If you haven't tried it, you should give it a try.

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            • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

              Normally I do not put a lot of items on my desktop. But I found this tool interesting and played with it for sometime: Bumptop[^]

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              Yusubov E
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              It is really looks great.. Thanks for sharing..

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                Thanks - it looked interesting until I got to the bit "This is a beta...and will expire in November 2009". I don't install beta software on my working machine, not since the incident. I don't want to talk about it.

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                programmervb netc
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                My god are you right. I did until 2 days ago. I had installed some beta controls from ComponentOne for Iphone dev and it hosed my machine I could not install the new version of the controls we just purchased for 1500. After fighting it for 5 hours I finally formatted and reloaded and have been doing so for 2 days. Normally I would not have formatted but the other dev I worked with had already installed the controls and we cannot work on the same projects with different versions.:confused::confused::confused:

                Humble Programmer

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                • C Chris Losinger

                  my solution is pretty simple: turn on auto-arrange / align to grid. then i delete things when i see more than three columns of icons. i put all of my essential apps in the quick-launch bar.

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                  Vikram A Punathambekar
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                  I put all of my essential apps in Slickrun. I dislike the Quick launch bar and keep it turned off.

                  Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)

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                  • P Pravarakhya

                    Is any one using Fences[^], I just stumbled upon this yesterday, now my desk top is much organized and neat. I was looking for such a program for years now, and this is exactly what I have imagined.They said it works on Windows 7 too, though I have tried it on XP.

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                    MattPenner
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                    Meh. I just get a bigger/additional monitor when I can't see my desktop. I have 5 monitors, three of which are 30". :laugh:

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                    • P Pravarakhya

                      Is any one using Fences[^], I just stumbled upon this yesterday, now my desk top is much organized and neat. I was looking for such a program for years now, and this is exactly what I have imagined.They said it works on Windows 7 too, though I have tried it on XP.

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                      rbrt13
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                      I download everything to my desktop, but then it starts to get near 3 columns, I delete the installers and sort the rest into my documents. All the programs I use frequently are in my start menu, the rest I can access in a few seconds more.

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                      • P Pravarakhya

                        Is any one using Fences[^], I just stumbled upon this yesterday, now my desk top is much organized and neat. I was looking for such a program for years now, and this is exactly what I have imagined.They said it works on Windows 7 too, though I have tried it on XP.

                        Pravar My Image Processing Article! Rate it!! My Blog

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                        ecooke
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                        Nope, I just randomly place things on it all over the place, with decent names, then click somewhere on the desktop and start typing the name. Placing them in a specific spot doesn't matter, the company wallpaper...well I would rather them use http://www.boingboing.net/images/snakes-white-big.jpg[^. Can't see anything on the desktop when it's all "pretty". At home, their's nothing on the desktop except for a few shortcuts. I like the start menu and a nice picture of a Battlestar Galactica Base Ship (mostly black). :)

                        Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Aristotle

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