mDesktop–Multiple desktops on Windows 7

By Kenneth 'RabidDog' Clark at August 29, 2011 15:53
Filed Under: Personal, Work

I have been quite annoyed for some time now because I cannot have multiple desktops on windows (by this I mean it is not native to the OS install). I was using a product called Dexpot but it for some reason stopped working so I went fishing to see what I could find. Every desktop manager I came across was bloated, didn’t work properly and just didn’t fit the bill. I wanted a light weight desktop switching application for Windows 7.

 

I was just about to give up and start writing my own when I came across mDesktop. Brilliant! Light weight, small foot print. Very cool.

 

You can find it here http://code.google.com/p/mdesktop/

 

Cheat sheet:

Alt+Desktop Index (e.g. Alt+1, Alt+2...) switches between desktops

Alt+Ctrl+Desktop Index sends the active window to the Desktop Index

 

Happy days! Perhaps Microsoft will catch a wake up one day regarding multiple desktops. The API is there, can’t for the life of me figure out why they haven’t done this.

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