Best advice there is.

or perhaps making a post on these forums prior to going through all that if you have a question.  Anyway, I'm a tech nerd and I get it - computer problem = fixed by a restore, but obviously you could have saved yourself quite a bit of time with an inquiry. 

I think Dewie found "the problem".

I started to suggest that as the first response but thought it too obvious to be helpful...lol.  That, IMHO, is the single most beneficial aspect of Fences. I love the quick-hide feature!

Actually, is it the function of Fences? For some it probably is, but I certainly don't use it that way. Rather, I use it to automatically place icons in a fence and to have the fence not appear unless I mouse over it. I never use the double click feature to show/hide the icons. And, certainly, someone NEW to fences might not know about the double click feature. I didn't until I discovered it accidentally by double clicking the desktop weeks after starting to use it. Typically I have one Fence visible with some things like the recycle bin and whatnot, everything else is in several transparent fences in easy to remember locations: applications in one fence, current work documents in another, etc. that are transparent by default. Only when I mouse over them do I see them.

Long story short, never assume as it could make a "donkey" out of U and Me