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Happy Bday indeed Maggie :) Just wanted to add that I found the root cause of my issue. One of the icons in a fence points to a file on a LAN drive, and said drive died, so the shortcut link was dead. I have to admit I did not think of it before - quite a severe consequence for a link that only got invoked very occasionally. Simply removing that icon fixes the issue. Hopefully this may help someone with the same issue in the future.

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no I did not have a folder portal (unless created unknowingly by accident) also, once the problem was there, the hangs persisted far longer than it takes for onedrive to sync (I typically only sync a couple of files on a regular basis)

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I did a clean boot and it works fine. I went back to my regular profile, disabled all the programs autostarting (using sysinternal's autoruns great "compare" function), and it still didn't work. I tried to reset my fences by performing an automatic layout from the "Layout & snapping" tab, and it still didn't work. Eventually I manually deleted all the existing fences (which took a very long time since each click would take at least a minute to do something, with the occasi

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No luck... I don't use the Nvidia GeForce Experience, so I never install it. But for the sake of it I installed it, and disabled overlay (the other fix does not apply as I have only one GPU). Things are slightly better (Fences a little bit more responsive) but I still get crashes and hang ups. Still unusable unfortunately.

Reply to Sudden instability and long start times on W10 in Fences Stardock Forums

same issue here using Fences 3.09 and windows 1909 (build 18363.720). It's a home machine so no websense & al, just defender. Fences was solid for months. Latest update I did was updating NVidia drivers to 445.75 three days ago, which is when the problems began, so I suspected it was the culprit (along with seeing Nvidia pop up on this thread). So I ran the Fences purge bat file, uninstalled device drivers with DDU and rolled back to 441.41, but no cigar -- same behavior.<