Fences messed up icons

Many icons moved from fences to the desktop

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This morning, Fences suddenly messed up my icons. Half of them have disappeared from fences and are jumbled up on the desktop. At random the desktop icons start flashing. I'm unaware of any changes to the PC. Restoring a backup did nothing, nor did restarting the PC. Everything was working correctly last night.

Before I roll back the whole operating system, is this a known problem? Will reinstalling Fences correct the issue? I really don't want to have to reorganise all my desktop icons, especially if this might happen again.

Any clue as to what has happened?

Further to this, I seem unable to add an image to this post - the forum just hangs

Stephen

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Apologies, I should have added that I am running Fences 6.0 on Windows 11 Pro 25H2. I also have Start11 and Deskscapes installed. The last Windows Update was a week ago.

TIA, Stephen

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Please try, uninstall Fences 6, reboot immediately (important), download latest version available v6.05 (beta) in your account product download page: https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products. Install it, reboot immediately again. Retest it and report back.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks for getting back. No, following your instructions doesn't fix the problem sorry.

I've rolled the system back a week and normality has been restored. It may well be that the problem was user profile corruption of some sort and not Fences.

Not clear what could have caused this but possibly not worth pursuing.

Stephen

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Great, glad to hear you have figure it out.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant