Stardock

I use groupy and fences and really liking both wonder what everyone else uses

Conversation 11 comments

  • jmeiii75

    Premium Member
    18 October, 2021 - 4:42 pm

    <p>Same (Groupy and Fences). Also used Deskscpes and Start10 (will be getting Start11 at some point)</p>

  • Brad Sams

    Premium Member
    18 October, 2021 - 5:18 pm

    <p>I promise this is not my alt account ?</p>

    • helix2301

      Premium Member
      19 October, 2021 - 8:13 am

      <p>I have been really enjoying a few of the products and want to see what everyone else is using</p>

  • hrlngrv

    Premium Member
    18 October, 2021 - 7:46 pm

    <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>

  • spacein_vader

    Premium Member
    19 October, 2021 - 2:56 am

    <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>

  • ringofvoid

    19 October, 2021 - 10:58 am

    <p>I’m only using Start11 at the moment but I was a big WindowsBlinds fan years ago.</p>

  • lwetzel

    Premium Member
    19 October, 2021 - 11:25 am

    <p>Fences, Start8, Start10, Start11, Groupy, and others. They all work great some of them I decided to stop using.</p>

  • martinusv2

    Premium Member
    19 October, 2021 - 3:21 pm

    <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>

    • Brad Sams

      Premium Member
      19 October, 2021 - 8:10 pm

      <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>

  • justme

    Premium Member
    21 October, 2021 - 3:50 am

    <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>

    • justme

      Premium Member
      21 October, 2021 - 3:56 am

      <p>Oh, and Offworld Trading Company, and SIns of a Solar Empire….</p>

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