Since Stardock appears to only provide support thru this forum, I will wait to here from them via a responding post. I hope they can offer more than the previous responses relating to this issue. 

Just checking in because I have not seen any response from Stardock. This issue continues to be an annoying problem (for me). It would be interesting to know how many other users with multi-monitor setups are experiencing the same types of issues with Windows 11.

In Windows 10, I've confirmed the originally reported issue after my monitors had gone to sleep (not my PC - it's set to never sleep) as well as the workaround - I replaced all of the DISPLAYx settings in the backup file with DISPLAY1 based on the desired display number in Color Management rather than Display Settings and when I restored that backup the fences moved back to the correct display.  Appreciate the workaround, saves me having to spend way too much trying to get the fences to the top of the screen without the header bouncing to the bottom when this happens.

I've installed the beta and will report back if it happens again.

Hello,
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Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

It's been 2 months with no reply from Startdock. I can only imagine the reasons this issue is not being addressed by StarDock and their talented developers. 

My workaround to address this issue is to configure and maintain a different Fence layout for each Windows 11 color management monitor identify configuration . 

1. Each time the fences move to the undesired monitor:

• Manually re-arrange the fences to their desired locations.
• Look up the Color Management configure (Start->Color Management->Identify Monitors)
• Save the Fence Layout using a name consistent with the Color Management Monitor order e.g. (Color Mgt Order1,4,3,2).

2. Next time you wake from sleep or restart your computer, and the fences are misplaced:

• Restore the order using the layout from a previously saved layout name.

Additional Information:

• I disabled fences setting to automatically save layouts.
• If I make major changes to the icon or fence arrangements, I have to redo the workflow outlined here.

While not the ideal method, these steps eventually save an enormous amount of frustration and time when the fences decide to re-arrange themselves. Due to the random nature of color management monitor identities changing, this process will take time to fully complete. The more monitors you have, the more layout combinations (2 monitors = 2 layouts and 4 monitors = 24 potential layouts).

I do hope others finding this thread will find this process helpful. Let me know.

grosner, 

Are you using any other monitor management software like DisplayFusion or Nvidia Surround (its a vid app of theirs)?

If so, and you disable it (temp uninstall may be best), does that resolve it?

While it may be unreleated, I am curious what you have for this:

Lastly, if you do t a clean boot, are you still able to reproduce the issue at will?

https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#cleanboot

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

I used to have this monitor swapping issue, still using Fences 3 btw. Also using Display Fusion and whatever I tried the issue prevailed.
Also with other apps at times I had similar issues and while continuing to try and find a fix I stumbled on some info regards Windows 10 monitor ID profile (when checking Display settings for my 3 monitor set up) and the monitor ID profile for Windows Color Management are separate profiles. In my case these 2 profiles were out of sync. And further when the misplacement of fences occurred the 'incorrect' monitor positioning was inline and correct when determined against the Color Management Profile.

I fixed the syncing anomaly by changing the order of how my monitors are plugged into my GPU. First establish which is the Primary display port outlet on the GPU. Usually this is the one nearest to the motherboard (but not always) Your primary monitor should use that 1st/primary GPU port, 2nd chosen monitor uses the 2nd port and obviously 3rd monitor uses 3rd port. 
These are all Display Port connections btw, and I believe the next inline for priority on the GPU would be the HDMI outlet, but as I don't use that I can not confirm this.
Also, obviously, I suggest you power off the PC before unplugging the monitors when changing their plugin order.

Reboot PC and check that Display Monitor order is now identical to the Color Management Display order. If so, all good, re-arrange the fences as required ( they may have got moved around as the monitor order was changed) and reboot PC.

In my case after going through this process my Fences (and the other issue I mentioned) have not reoccurred. Even when I forget to power on one monitor and boot up the positioning gets messed up due to a missing display. While already at the desktop I power on the missing monitor and Fences auto corrects the placement to move the Fences that belong on that monitor to their correct position.

Try it and I hope this also works for other multi monitor users.

Cheers
TinkrNZ

All very interesting TinkerNZ; thank you very much for the work and feedback - I will certainly pass it along.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

I am willing to connect to your internal Microsoft Teams private client portal to discuss further.

It is not easy to reproduce the issue at will, since it mainly occurs after monitors have been asleep for a few minutes and then wake up.

a big thank you for the instructions re changing the DISPLAY monitor numbers in the XML code - I found saving a new snapshot and editing it in wordpad - using 'find and replace' in wordpad to substitute 1 with x and then 2 with 1 then x with 2, worked a treat - I ended up with two snapshots with the same name/date and the first I tried didn't work but the other one did.

Of course then I saved a new snapshot, with a unique name to find, if it happens again imminently.

The snapshots doesn't work at all. When I identify the monitors their numbering is the same in color management and in the normal display configuration. If I look into the backup XML the display numbers are also correct.
I haven't the problem, that the icons change after each restart and most times when a monitor misses and is added later (because he was fully turned off), the icons are realigned correctly. 
But sometimes they aren't and when this happens I'm literally f...d because there is no way of restoring them, only manually. 

The monitor numbering might be a problem, but I think the main problem lies somewhere else. My monitor layout is simple. Two monitors beside each other and the third one above.
left - 2
right - 1
above - 3

Primary monitor is 1, so all coordinates on 1 and 3 are negative ones. Fences isn't the first program having problems with negative coordinates on the desktop. I know the coordinates for the single monitor are always positive, but not for the whole desktop and when I look into the xml file there are -1 in the definitions. Might that be the source of the problem?

Upon my screen waking from sleep my icons on the desktop rearrange, not the fences themselves (reboot has no effect on anything)  I have a dual monitor setup with the left most screen setup oriented portrait, but is actually normally powered off (I use it when programming only) What I think is happening is that the icons are being repositioned like they are being displayed on the portrait monitor before refreshing, then the fences get positioned correctly. I say this as I have noticed that when the display first pops up only the left side of the screen has icons on it and the right is black then it refreshes to full screen and fences are also displayed. If I go to a layout snapshot it will correct the positions (unless it has made a new snapshot) As a experiment, if I move all my icons over to the left of the screen before the screen sleeps, icons do not reposition.

Thank you for your time