Fences will not enable

Problem

After boot, Fences will not enable when complete nor will it respond when using the right-click context menu on the desktop:

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Solution

What is likely the case is that Fences is indeed starting but crashing due to a conflict - likely due to an icon on the desktop. This can likely be determined after a boot and reviewing the Event Viewer logs in Windows.

To test:

1. Create a folder on the desktop - name it 'All Icons'

2. Move every desktop icon possible to it. Some icons like Trash and ‘My Computer’ are not moveable but all non-Windows essential ones should be.

3. Reboot and see if Fences is enabled

If it is, one or more icons that were present prior are causing an issue. Almost always, it is an icon that links to a network location that is not available at boot time. Other possibilities are icons that are linked to cloud drive services like OneDrive, DropBox, or Google Drive.

Start by moving those icons over, rebooting, and seeing if the issue persists. It would be a matter of moving one \ some over a bit at a time to eventually find the one \ group that is causing the conflict.

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