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timmycrackcorn
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Fences Takes Forever to Load on a Fresh Boot

April 4, 2013 6:41:58 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

Upon rebooting/starting up the computer, Windows Explorer hangs while waiting for Fences to "kick in".  By forever, I mean like at least a couple of minutes from when the desktop appears.  That seems like forever when you consider my computer boots (before Fences) from cold to a working desktop in about 50 seconds!

That certainly does not seem normal, and I don't remember it doing this when I had the trial version and now have updated to the latest (2.10) version.  Anyone else run into this issue?

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timmycrackcorn
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Reply #1 April 10, 2013 2:48:25 AM
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Yes, using windows 7 and Fences and it stalls the boot time by about 15 seconds preventing windows explorer from starting up.  A known problem that affects Windows 8 as well.  Seems to vary from system to system as to whether this happens or not.  On another PC I have it works fine.  It worked on this one for awhile without any problems.  After some windows updates (I think) this started to happen.  So a conflict somewhere.  Pretty sure StarDock knows about this as I know others have reported the problem to them.

 

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Reply #2 April 10, 2013 8:46:19 AM
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That certainly does not seem normal, and I don't remember it doing this when I had the trial version and now have updated to the latest (2.10) version.

That is not a known issue with V2.

It would be interesting to know what else is in your start-up.

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Reply #3 April 10, 2013 9:24:41 AM
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Quoting Zubaz,
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It would be interesting to know what else is in your start-up.

Indeed...

Might Process lasso  be of help?  http://bitsum.com/prolasso.php

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Reply #4 May 28, 2013 3:43:53 PM
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This should be acknowledged as a "known" issue with Fences 2 as there have been multiple posts on the topic with Win 8.  I have Fresh Win 8 install with dual monitors and am running Fences, Start8, and ModernMix.  The Fences "hang" at startup for 1-2 minutes.  I went with the workaround from other posts of disabling startup and going with the right-click on the desktop - again hangs for 1-2 minutes.  Alas, the final workaround of un-install was implemented successfully, asking for a refund, probably not so much.  Please fix.

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Reply #5 December 19, 2014 4:48:49 AM
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I think I also have this problem, but 20 minutes, and my desktop (or explorer) still has not appeared after boot-start on Win 8.1   ...I guess I'll have to boot safe mode to uninstall fences.   I hope  the old desktop's ICONs are still available somewhere (if fences was smart, it would tuck those away for safe keeping, upon initial install).   Of course, I wasn't so smart, in not doing so myself.

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Reply #6 December 19, 2014 7:19:17 AM
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stevegoss...always a good idea to create a restore point before installing any new software or updates...

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Reply #7 December 19, 2014 8:27:35 AM
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stevengoss - Contact us in support for assistance: https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit 

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Reply #8 December 19, 2014 6:58:59 PM
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@ The_Gear : Problem wasn't Fences, it was instead WindowsFX.   I disabled the WindowsFX service in the windows 'service' manager (disabled auto-start), and the computer boots and operates with-out any problem (Fences and ObjectDock still enabled).

I have 2 High End Video Cards (NVidia, with Maxwell GPUs, NVidia's latest architecture), and I suspect that WindowsFX is just not that stable, yet, with those very recent GPU architectures.

That's ok, for now, I purchased Object-Desktop, but not specifically for the WindowsFX, so maybe I'll give WindowsFX a try again in the future, after some next revisions on it.

 

Thanks for very quick response, when that wasn't even a support ticket that I generated (impressive service).

 

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