IMAGE: STARDOCK JANUARY 2022 PCWorld 9Hands-on: Stardock’s Fences 4
keeps your desktop tidy so you
don’t have to
Fences 4 adds a new Peek feature, but its greatest talent is simply organizing your desktop
icons. BY MARK HACHMANM
aybe you’re the type of person
who laboriously organizes your
Windows’ desktop icons,
sorting them and adding them
to specific folders. If you’re not, Stardock’s
Fences 4 utility may be worth a look.
On the surface, Fences—from the same
developer, Stardock, that authored the recent
Start11 app (fave.co/3j8wQ0T), which fixes
Windows 11’s worst Start menu and taskbarsins—doesn’t offer anything truly novel. It
simply organizes your desktop automatically.
Windows’ Win+D shortcut allows you to
“peek” at your desktop, and a related
Win+Space shortcut within Fences 4 allows
you to peek at your Fences. But like Start11,
Fences essentially improves upon what
Windows already does.
So what does Fences do? On startup, the
$9.99 Fences 4 utility (fave.co/3GMxsCO)