Author Profile - My name is Joke (pronounced \yo-kə\ or Joan for those who do not speak Dutch). During the day, I work as a secretary for a non-profit organization providing assisted living for mentally handicapped people in the south of The Netherlands. In my spare time I like to use Wireshark. I find it interesting and necessary to monitor my home network to see what is going on. As a user I like to answer questions at the Wireshark Mailing List.
What is in it for me? Well, I learn a great deal whenever I try to solve real-world problems. I am also a member of the NGN (the Dutch Network User's Group). I write articles about how to use Wireshark and the command line tools. And if there is still some spare time left, I like to go biking in the woods near my hometown with my husband and fellow geek.
Stardock Fences: Organize Your Desktop
Fences is a program that helps you to organize your desktop.
Click here to download Fences: it is free for personal use.
A "Fence", a term coined by this program, is an icon group on your desktop.
This option makes the program very useful for people, who give frequently presentations.
You can group the files and shortcuts for each presentation in a different Fence.
Another advantage: your desktop won't get messed up, when you connect your laptop to a beamer.
The Fences will automatically scale when you switch screen resolutions. Because the icons are caught in the Fences the icon layout is preserved.
Curious to know how to get started? Continue reading...
After a quick installation and reboot you can use the wizard to create a couple of Fences or create Fences and clean up your desktop at the same time. The shortcuts, files and folders are placed in Fences with labels like Files & Documents, Quick Links, Programs etc.
On the other hand it's easy to create the Fences yourself.
Create Fences
Use the right mouse button to draw a square on the desktop.
Select "Create new Fence here" and give it a name.
Left-click on the label to move the Fence.
You can resize the Fences by grabbing and dragging the edges with the left mouse button.
Customize Fences
Right-click on the label and select Configure Fences... .
Here, for instance, you can choose another predefined layout or customize the labels.
You can also rename the Fence by right-clicking on the label.
Quick Hide
- double click on the desktop -> all Fences and icons are hidden
- double click on the desktop again -> all Fences and icons show up again
You can select Fences and/or icons to remain visible during Quick Hide:
- right click on the label of the Fence and select View -> "Exclude this fence from quick-hide"
- right click an icon and select "Exclude this icon from Fences' quick-hide"
Snapshots
There are 2 snapshots created by default: Pre-Install Snapshot and First-Use Snapshot.
It's very easy to take and restore snapshots for backups and different tasks.
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