Use and Manage Multiple Virtual Windows Desktops on Vista/XP

Are you a person who is interested in organizing and working on multiple desktops? But, you do not have the desk space and the bucks to get a new monitor. Even if you have the green paper to go out and get yourself a new monitor, it has to be a TFT or LCD screen which will assist you in arranging the look and feel of your workspace. And again you are at loss, if you are using a CRT monitor right now.

Even with all these constraints and with a single monitor, I presume you can manage to use multiple desktops in a virtual environment which do not cost you and is absolutely free. Using a Virtual desktop manager is applaudible at this stage as your processing power will help you a lot in managing multiple desktops on a single system with a single monitor. All you need to do is download and install a nifty tool called Vista/XP Virtual Desktop Manager.

The installation file is less that 1 MB and lets you create as many virtual desktops as you wish. When I tried to increase and check the limitation of the number of desktops that Vista-XP Virtual Download Manager enable me to deploy, I found that this supports upto 100 virtual desktops. Yes, 100!!

But, how does this work? Well, as Vista supports a feature called Desktop Windows Manager(DWM) which provides a set of thumbnail API’s which can be used to featurise thumbnails of windows that are open. This program utilizes this feature of the API to bring out a powerful virtual desktop application and that too with thumbnails of the other desktops in the virtual environment. And all you can do is, install and seamlessly switch between different virtual desktops.

But, if you are using Windows XP, all you miss is the thumbnails of the opened windows in different virtual desktops. I think I can stay with that.

I am thinking of using it to read any of my fav e-books in one screen or desktop and open a movie which I do not need to see the action of. Another possible use of this software is working on multiple applications which interact with each other, but require a little bit of tweaking and coding in their own environments which require different windows to be opened up. So, rather than cluttering my task bar and having trouble finding which window is which, I would stick APIs or static code at one place and code myself in another desktop.

And, all I use to switch from one virtual desktop to another is just Win Key + <numbers 1,2,3…..>

So, if you wish to adjust with a single monitor but want to work on multiple virtual environments, this application is the perfect choice. Do let me know how you would like to use this.