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No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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Fences.exe
Fences by Stardock Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 2.0.1.484 |
| MD5: | 1af5b7a4c51d4b5ebea7a2e4bae6da57 |
| SHA1: | cc2d09947f0314f5832c459640f001d980b91d26 |
| SHA256: | cd806cdabd6896d993d2a682fa5c92cd0467dd9403f201f835f8b0b59c2d5e2b |
Overview
fences.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is set to be start when the PC boots and any user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the all users under the local machine). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Fences 2 published by Stardock Corporation, Fences 2 from Stardock Corporation and Fences 2 by Stardock Corporation. The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). The file is digitally signed by Stardock Corporation which was issued by the The USERTRUST Network certificate authority (CA). Note, some antivirus scanners have flagged this file, however it is not necessarily considered malware (see below for details).
Details
| File name: | fences.exe |
| Publisher: | Stardock Corporation |
| Product name: | Fences |
| Description: | Fences Settings |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\stardock\fences\fences.exe |
| File version: | 2.0.1.484 |
| Size: | 3.83 MB (4,017,368 bytes) |
| Build date: | 10/29/2012 9:31 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Stardock Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | The USERTRUST Network |
| Effective date: | Sunday, October 12, 2008 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“Fences® is a program that helps you organize your desktop and hide your icons when they're not in use. Fences is the world's most popular desktop enhancement for Windows®. What makes it so compelling is that what it does is so obviously useful and necessary that it is amazing that no one has thought of it before. You can have pages of fences on your desktop. To flip a page, just take your mouse cursor to the edge of your screen and clic...”
“Fences is a program that helps you organize your desktop. It can hide icons when they are not in use as well as make it easy to place icons into moveable groups called "fences". You can have pages of fences on your desktop. To flip a page, just take your mouse cursor to the edge of your screen and click and drag. Then a new page of fences can be displayed. This feature makes it easy to use your desktop to organize all of your programs,...”
Behaviors
User start menu folder
Shortcut pointer placed in '%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu'
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Fences' → "C:\Program Files\Stardock\Fences\Fences.exe" /startup
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
33.33% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
20.83% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
20.83% |
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| Windows 8 |
12.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
4.17% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro |
4.17% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
4.17% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 58.33% of Fences.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Toshiba |
36.36% |
|
| ASUS |
24.24% |
|
| Dell |
18.18% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
9.09% |
|
| Samsung |
3.03% |
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| Acer |
3.03% |
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| GIGABYTE |
3.03% |
|
| American Megatrends |
3.03% |
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