<p>I prefer different virtual desktops for grouping applications. Tabs are fine in web browsers, OK in file managers, not my pick for anything else. As for Fences, I don’t keep enough on my desktop for it to provide any value for me.</p><p><br></p><p>With Windows 11, I’ve taken to using Nexus Dock. Stardock’s ObjectDock Plus would be an alternative, but in this case I prefer free to inexpensive. The key feature which Nexus Dock provides but freeware ObjectDock lacks is a system tray fly-out. I also use Taskbar Eliminator which does one and only one thing: completely hides the Windows taskbar so that not even a 1-pixel wide indicator appears.</p><p><br></p><p>I don’t make much use of the Start menu, but I prefer a Windows 2K-like menu to anything from the current millennium. Open Shell provides that, but I couldn’t make Start10 get close enough to what I wanted.</p><p><br></p><p>Back when I was using LiteStep (98 thru XP), I dabbled with WindowBlinds. No longer. Some things one just outgrows (or becomes too old to care).</p>
<p>I use Groupy, and also have the first 2 Galciv games (I even had a drengin.net account back in the day.) </p><p><br></p><p>I’m not a huge fan of how Wardell comports himself but their software tends to be well written in my experience.</p>
<p>Groupy, Start11. I keep my desktop clean so I do not need Fences. But at work I would so love to have Fences :)</p><p><br></p><p>I used Curtains, but for reasons unknown to me, it don’t work well with Edge.</p>
<p>Fences in the corp world is a scenario we support if you really want to make it happen…but we have an announcement soon (TM) that should further help this style of usage.</p>
<p>Start8, Start10, ModernMix (when I ran 8.1), three Galactic Civ games. As a heavy Start Menu user – I’ve come to rely on Stardock to allow me to use the Start Menu the way that works for me, as opposed to whatever Microsoft puts out.</p>