The only one I've found is what I posted in #6 above. I made a new fence on the proper desktop (left, or number 1 of my dual monitors) called "downloads." When you right click the title bar of the new fence, choose "organize" and "place all new icons in this fence by default" and then all downloads go there. It's a workaround, but I'm used to it by now.
Thanks for the tip. I did a new fence on screen 1 desktop called "downloads" and it does indeed work. obviously I'd rather the downloads work properly without a special fence, but this is a decent workaround until we can figure out what's causing it.
Has anyone found a solution to this? I'm a longtime Fences user, with a dual screen setup. On my previous Win 10 laptop (lid close, display only on two 27" monitors) anything saved from my browser (Firefox) downloads to the desktop. Same for when I save a document (Word, Excel, Illustrator...whatever). Previously, these all saved to the middle of screen 1 and it was great. I just got a new Win 10 laptop, installed Fences again, and have the exact same setup as before on my older PC. Now, all
I had that problem too and posted about it here: https://forums.stardock.com/480902/page/1/#3664808 That fixed it for me.
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this happened to me frequently as well. I have a laptop (with lid closed) running two 32 inch monitors on my desk. Monitor 1 is my left (where I wanted the Fences with my icons) and Monitor 2 is my right. After troubleshooting some with Stardock, the answer appears to be in the Registry Editor. If you open regedit, then go to Stardock>Settings and then "PrimaryMonitorLast" you will find something like "\\.\DISPLAY1" as a value. Mine would change, for some reason, to DISPLAY2 or DIS