I can almost guarantee that will be the problem.....I'd put money on it....

I have just purchased Fences Pro. My machine is Windows7 Pro, 64-bit, Intel QuadtoCore. I have 6Tbytes HDD.

I tried installing Fences Pro, but it just stops (not not-responding) after it starts: "The program features you selected are being configured. Pls wail while the InstallAware W.... This may take several minutes).

It just sits there waiting for something, and I don't know what. I have tried 3 times, same thing each time. I abort after 20 minutes.

What seems to be the problem?

uwedembski: That is very interesting.  Is your computer connected to a domain or have you applied any other security products or settings?  It seems that the common thread between us is the McAfee products.  I had uninstalled most of my McAfee products, but there was some little helper thing that I couldn't get rid of so I gave up.

Please let me know if you are able to fix this by removing McAfee, rebooting, and trying the install.  I will try to uninstall all of my components as well.

Have you tried running the setup file as administrator?

I know this is an old thread, but I went through this issue about 6 months ago with Stardock's support on the free version (edit: and they didn't have an answer for me other than "Purchase the Pro version!  It surely won't have this problem!".  Nor did they comment when I provided them with my solution).  OP, my computer is configured similarly to yours, I'm sure (I'm guessing you're gov?).  It's a certificate issue.  Stardock's executables are signed with a UTN-USERFirst-Object issued certificate.  Chances are, UTN-USERFirst-Object is not a trusted Root CA or 3rd Party Root CA in your certificate store. Jack187n2's link has instructions similar to what I did on my machine (I can't read German very well, but from the screenshots they added the UTN-USERFirst-Object certificate to one of their trusted CA stores on the machine).

Unfortunately, the certificate Stardock signed the free version with is now expired.  I can still run it, but I'm prompted for my administrator credentials every time Fences does anything (startup, log trim, opening the config window, etc).  So if you don't have admin access on your machine, this probably isn't a valid option for you.  If the certificate on the Pro version is still valid, it may work, though.

You can (probably) view the certificate to see the expiration.  Just right-click on fences.exe (in C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Fences) and select properties.  Click the "Digital Signatures" tab, select the Stardock Corp signature and click Details.  Then click View Certificate.  Valid date range should be there.  (If you're going to attempt to add the USERFirst cert to your trusted store, from here click the "Certification Path" tab at the top, then click on UTN-USERFirst-Object in the Cert path list, then View Certificate.  Click the details tab from there and "Copy to File" to export it for later import into your cert store).

And here's a link on how to add it to your stores if you have admin access:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754841.aspx#BKMK_addlocal

Note that I really don't recommend doing this if you're on a managed network, especially in a gov facility.  Ask your admins; they may be open to adding it for you if they know the possible security impacts and can mitigate them ahead of time.

Okay, so I gave it another shot when the 2.0 beta was released.  Fences still would not run, giving an error message similar to the original one.  I saw the recent additions to this thread.  Sure enough, the digital signature was not accepted by windows.  I tried exporting a the cert and importing it into my cert store as advised by XcentricOrbit but that did not work.

I was able to see in my certificate chain that Windows had a problem with AddTrust External CA Root, (UTN-USERFirst-Object was not trusted because AddTrust was not.). 

I was able to download the AddTrust cert from here: https://support.comodo.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=87

I found these instructions for installing and verifying the cert: http://idoc.vsb.cz/en/okruhy/cit/tuonet/sluzby/eduroam/vsb/ca/win7/

I had to go back and explicitly select "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" as the store instead of using the automatic function.

After that, Fences worked.  I am one happy camper.

Just an FYI, I have this same issue, but only at work where I'm locked down behind a firewall, various security software and windows group policies.

However, it doesn't happen all the time, just sometimes when I boot up.  I log out (or reboot, either way is the same) until it works again and there's no issue for weeks at a time.  So for me, I can work around it, but I have no idea what trips it up exactly.  Other than as I've mentioned this is only at work and we use McAfee here as well (since I saw it mentioned above).