Automatically organize your desktop shortcuts and icons with Fences!

Fences 5 by Stardock is the latest version of the popular desktop organization software, optimized specifically for Windows 11. With new features like automatic fence switching, enhanced cloud integration, and expanded customization options, Fences 5 offers an even more intuitive and efficient way to keep your desktop organized and boost productivity.

New Features of Fences 5:

Compatibility with Windows 11: Full support for Windows 11 and its new user interface.
Automatic fence switching: Fences automatically switch depending on the programs or workspaces open, optimizing the desktop.
Improved performance: Optimizations provide faster and smoother user experience, even with many icons or files.
Enhanced cloud integration: Easier access and organization of files from cloud services like OneDrive and Dropbox directly within the fences.
Expanded customization options: New layout options, improved color, and transparency settings for more personalized desktop customization.
Optimized roll-up feature: Improved functionality for collapsing and expanding fences with one click to save desktop space.
Refined user interface: A more modern and intuitive user interface for better organization and easier navigation.

Windows users all know this problem: over time, the desktop gets cluttered with icons, shortcuts and documents. Stardocks Fences is a tiny but highly effective program that helps you bring order to your chaotic desktop in style. Items are grouped either by type or individual criteria into translucent boxes that can then be individually created, named, moved and resized. Various display and sort options allow you to create the perfect desktop environment that matches your habits and working style - in just a few clicks!

Benefits at a glance

Organizes your desktop shortcuts, icons and files for maximum order
Create shaded areas to organize your desktop
Define rules to organize your desktop icons
Blur the wallpaper behind fences on Windows 10
Double click the desktop to hide or show icons
Roll up fences to the Title-bar for cleaner desktops
Navigate the folder structure from within the fence
Swipe between multiple pages of fences
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.

Use it on up to 5 PCs in your household

If you use Fences® at home, you can run it on up to 5 PCs! If you use it commercially though, it's one license per installation.

Fences helps you organize your PC by automatically placing your shortcuts and icons into resizable shaded areas on your desktop called fences. Its many customization features are what make Fences the world's most popular Windows 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 cause the rest of the Fence to "roll up" into it, saving you valuable space. To reveal your fence, you can move your mouse over the title-bar or double-click it again to view the title and all of its icons as normal.

Innovative 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.

Desktop Quick-hide

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

Customize your Fences

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.

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