Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer's desktop, solving the "constant mess" problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception.

Fences also helps you finally appreciate the wallpaper you have hiding behind all that clutter. In addition to its organizing features, Fences offers a novel quick-hide feature (in-patenting-process). Double click your desktop, and all your icons will fade out. Double click again, and they'll return.

Features

  • Create shaded areas to organize your desktop
  • Peek brings your fences on top for instant access
  • Roll up fences to the Title-bar for cleaner desktops
  • Define rules to organize your desktop icons
  • Swipe between multiple pages of fences
  • Designed to match Windows 10 and Windows 11 themes

Organize

Organize your PC by automatically placing your shortcuts and icons into resizable shaded areas on your desktop called fences that are designed to match Windows 10 and 11. Fences has many customization features that make it the world's most popular desktop enhancement.

Fences Peek

Instantly access your files, folders, and applications with Peek by pressing Winkey + Space to bring your fences on top of all your windows. Save time and be more productive by creating folder portals to make accessing frequently used content only a Peek away.

Roll up Fences

Eliminate clutter from your desktop, but keep your fences where it's easy to find them with our roll-up feature! Double-clicking on a fence's title-bar will "roll up" the rest of the fence into it, saving you valuable space on your desktop. To reveal your fence, you can move your mouse over the title-bar or double-click it again to view all of the icons as normal.

Folder Portals

Fences can act as a portal to any folder on your PC. For example, your documents or pictures folders can be mirrored onto your desktop as a fence enabling quick access to their contents without adding clutter to your desktop.

Customize your Fences

Quickly personalize the labels, background colors, and transparency of your fences from the easy-to-use configuration menu.

Desktop Quick-hide

Instantly clean up your desktop. Double-click any blank space on your desktop and your desktop icons will fade out. Double-click again and they will return. You can even pick icons and individual fences to exclude.

Desktop Pages

Create multiple pages of fences on your desktop and quickly swipe between them. To change to a different desktop page, just take your mouse cursor to the edge of your screen and click and drag. Then a new page of fences will be displayed. This feature provides greater control over how you can organize favorite programs, documents, websites and more.

What's New

Today we are releasing a significant update for Fences 5 that includes an overhaul of the Fences engine as well as other improvements. With this release, Fences 5 is taking a significant leap forward when it comes to elegantly handling complex multi-monitor scenarios as well as subtle but important refinements for daily use on the desktop.

New in this release is Fences Engine v3 that is now enabled by default for new installs of the application. The updated Fences engine is the result of meticulous focus on multi-monitor experiences like that of docking a laptop with external monitors, adding or removing a monitor from a desktop and in some scenarios, and working with devices that have no monitors that are accessed remotely.

While adding and removing monitors is as simple as plugging and unplugging a cable, how Fence groups and icons on the desktop arrange themselves is a delicate dance of understanding the estate resolution of the device and pairing that up with user expectations. You may not think much about how icons move around on your desktop but deciding where an icon or Fence group moves to when a monitor is unplugged can be a complex process when more than one monitor is removed.

The result of this focused effort is that Fences 5 is a significant leap forward in terms of performance and reliability by making Fences more consistent across a wider range of scenarios. While it may sound like a few changes were made to create the new Fences engine, it was more of a ground-up rebuild that has been in development for several months.

And with additional updates that improve using Fences 5 with remote desktops, minor changes to the user interface, and bug fixes - Fences 5.5 polishes up the Fences experience to further solidify why it is the best desktop enhancement available today.