Comments on: 2 Cool Virtual Desktop Managers for Windows

By: How To Quickly Hide Your Web Surfing From The Boss! | MakeUseOf.com

How To Quickly Hide Your Web Surfing From The Boss! | MakeUseOf.com — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:02:36 +0000

[...] but it’s best if you choose one that supports shortcuts. My personal favorite is VirtuaWin (previously covered by Aibek) although you can use whichever you want. For those that are using VirtuaWin, just download and [...]

By: Syahid A.

Syahid A. — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:20:53 +0000

A vote for Dexpot by me. Efficient tool, imo.

By: IP

IP — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:12:09 +0000

I’ve found some other Virtual Desktop Managers some time ago (Chimera Virtual Desktop, for instance), however, i didn’t find any like the one you’ve got on linux. Just install Ubuntu and you’ll see a real VDM.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:23 +0000

The Codeplex offering (Virtual Desktop Manager) is also good. I must say that Dexpot is a bit quicker and I have had no issues using it with XP.

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Múltiples escritorios en Windows en rubendomfer — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:38:39 +0000

[...] la idea del artículo de MakeUseOf, aquí van dos de los mejores programas para gestionar escritorios [...]

By: Matt Ellsworth

Matt Ellsworth — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:54:17 +0000

pretty cool - thanks! I’ve been looking for one of these. I had found another one that I used years ago - but then I had stopped and now I miss it.

By: Stimul8d

Stimul8d — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:18:12 +0000

My personal favourite would have to be a paid option i’m afraid. I know you only usually cover the free stuff and i DID use dexpot for a long time but from now on i’ll be using ‘cube desktop’.

Dexpot has the tendeancy to lose it’s handle on MFC, QT and some old school VB6 apps and doesn’t do a great job of recovering them which makes some of my work a pain. Cube desktop has yet to let me down and it’s only £10! Bonus!

By: Cool Virtual Desktop Managers for Windows « Technology , Fun and Spirit

Cool Virtual Desktop Managers for Windows « Technology , Fun and Spirit — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:56:53 +0000

[...] 5, 2008 If you constantly find your desktop cluttered and overloaded with programs and browser windows then a virtual desktop manager might be [...]

By: Aibek

Aibek — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:16:57 +0000

Thanks Aseem, will check it out.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:16:34 +0000

Same here, I was expecting a native virtual desktop application on Vista as well…. As about Dexpot, I am on Vista and it works fine.

By: Travis Quinnelly

Travis Quinnelly — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:48:36 +0000

Too bad this is paid software. We typically only cover those of which are free.

By: LARQ

LARQ — Sun, 04 May 2008 03:47:44 +0000

ObjectDock PLus

By: arturogoga

arturogoga — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:21:40 +0000

Dexpot hasn’t been updated in 2 years, and when 1.4 came out, it had awful problems with vista (switching desktops via keyboard shortcuts often resulted in blank screens, for example), so I’d say VirtuaWin is still the better option of the two.

It’s a shame no virtual desktop option came with Vista’s SP1, since I really enjoy using it on Ubuntu and Leopard. Of course, it’s not such a huge productivity boost as using dual monitors, but when you’re on the move, with a laptop, it’s great to be able to dedicate an entire desktop to different programs.

By: Aseem Kishore

Aseem Kishore — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:47:01 +0000

I also like this one from CodePlex, it was a lot of good features and supports XP and Vista also:

http://www.codeplex.com/vdm

By: Famf

Famf — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:45:25 +0000

The only virtual desktop manager I have liked are the ones in Linux, especially with Compiz Fusion. I’ve used OS X’s spaces but I’ve never been particularly pleased with it.

I’ll try these out and see how it goes, dexpot looks promising.