Fences 2.0, Windows 8, Wallpaper frozen

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I'm up against a bug with Fences (yes I did search the forum first) that when used in conjunction with either DisplayFusion for changing background wallpaper, OR even using windows itself to personalize the desktop, the background will not change unless I doubleclick the desktop to hide and then unhide the fences.  Also noticed if I leave the fences hidden, the background changes appropriately even on a time, or if I change it manually through personalize.

It's not a group policy issue as other people were having, it looks like a desktop caching issue, but shouldn't fences check every so often for the api flag that says the wallpaper changed?

Anyone have a workaround for this that hasn't been posted as I've tried everything in the forums so far.

It's mildly annoying, but I'd love if the wallpaper would change on it's own.

TIA

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Interesting - this was a problem with Fences on Win XP. There was some issue with the API calls that wouldn't allow Fences and XP to share the wallpaper control. This went away in Win-7, but seems like it is back in Win-8.

Does Win-8 use WinXP API's? Maybe that is what the developers will say this time too. Maybe?

Even with this limitation, I can't live without Fences on my PCs. Sometimes you need to take the bad with the good.

--Einy