Fences crashing under windows 10

Cant install fences

This is a problem and a solution in one. Hopefully helpful to someone as this problem drove me nuts.

I had ongoing issues for years with fences crashing windows 7 and hoped an upgrade to windows 10 pro would solve things. No luck. The fences install failed to load automatically and often took 3-4 gos to manually load. It would then occasionally crash.

I followed all stardock software guidelines to sort this including the following...(none worked)

..Uninstall/reinstall

..scan all drives and repair any faults

..Purge software and reinstall

...set up new user and perform clean boot, purge and reinstall

I resolved the issue by completely deleting Fences and forcing the install to a secondary drive. The main drive is a Plextor PX-128 SSD. The secondary drive being a WD 1TB standard hard drive. The SSD drive passes every test I throw at it and appears faultless in every way. Fences will simply not run on it.

I have seen a lot of similar posts with very similar symptoms to mine and I suspect may have a similar cause.

Hope this has been helpful to someone and perhaps stardock could give an explanation.

Cheers wayne

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Hello,

I have forwarded your report to Stardock Support team for their review. We appreciate your feedback.

As a side note. I have no problem running Fences on SSD's on both Windows 10 and Windows 7 systems, both on Samsung Evo SSD.

Basj

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Hello,

Thank you for the test and posting the results. We are be as dumbfounded as you must be as the physical media that Fences is installed on is irrelevant.

My first thought would be that your SSD is being scanned / monitored by a third party AV software and the other is not (or not to the same degree). If this is a corp environment, and you are using WebSense / Forcepoint, and it is only looking at your SSD, that would support that theory.

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

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Hi Sean,

This computer is running in a home office environment only. No monitoring/websense or any such.

I am running Norton security premium only and shutting that down had absolutely no effect either.

Regards

Wayne

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Very late on the issue but i had this problem myself Windows 10 Pro build 1909 where when opening fences it would crash immediately and stop responding and this one setting within windows defender prevents certain devices (mainly laptops) to install/launch certain programs properly if you head to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security > App & Browser control > Scroll to the bottom and find exploit protection settings > disable "Force randomization for images (Mandatory ASLR)" and "Force memory allocations (Bottom-up ASLR)" after doing that you'll notice "High-entropy ASLR" disable reboot and try again. This has fixed so many broken/corrupted programs for me and also fixed Fences.

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