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Having an issue where Fences appears twice in my Startup apps. Any idea why? Is it safe to remove one of them? If so, which one.
I was just trying to find out why this was and stumbled across this topic but no explanation, just a hey forget it, it is normal.
Why is it normal, what is going on here that one application needs to run multiple instances of some background helper app?
Just curious as I am deep cleaning a computer that has been slowly losing performance when starting apps and I am going through with a critical eye removing goop that is executing on startup so I would like to understand what is going on here?
Hi gio/klibor, good question.
This is an old compatibility holdover. We've considered getting rid of it, but, in older Windows versions (and debatably current) there were advantages to being in both the HKCU and HKLM Run keys, in terms of whether or not some random antivirus might mess with it to cause it to not startup. These days, that's a less of a concern, and we could probably just be in HKLM, as to have a single startup entry – but, nonetheless we've kept both as it's harmless and increases reliability.
We'll continue to consider whether or not to take the jump to one.
The startup procedures have effectively no performance impact, and their main goal is to initiate loading of Fences into explorer. Once this happens, loading is complete and a 2nd execution has roughly no additional cost.
Thank you for the update, so this is a run entry for the same app module in two different registry keys just to be sure the process starts? It is not actually running two different bits of code/separate processes? If both run one just exits with no continued impact?
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