Icons will disappear when you double-click your desktop. Try double-clicking again.

Otherwise, make sure you don't have Fences pages enabled and swiped to another page.

Fences in use here at all times, on multiple rigs. Love it, works just fine for me. 

Another happy Fences user here, never had an issue with it, also love the roll up feature.

I'm not the kind of guy who has allot of icons on my desktop but after installing fences I became "that guy". Its so freakin easy. On my laptop surface 3 is even better because the screen is so small. Pages, fences with live views of folders, double click hide/reveal, its a great organization tool.

Although I miss object bar greatly, this is a nice substitute (that you can't "skin").

oh object bar... how I wish you were still being updated and available! and Desktop X too... would love Treetog's Plava to be on my laptop lol

I love my Fences!!!!

I loved Fences on Window 7 but now that I upgraded to W10 it takes 16 seconds for the icons to appear when I double-click the desktop.  Launching a program is delayed by 18 seconds.  I've pretty much stopped using it.  

I'm running version 2.91.

When I first moved to W10 it was non-functional.  I had to uninstall and resinatall as administrator to even get it to display the icons and let me interact it with.  Before that it was as if I was clicking on a desktop image rather than active Fences.  

In general, everything is slower for me under W10.  I used to idle at less that 10% CPU, now it's upwards of 40%.