Monday, August 29, 2011

mDesktop–Multiple dekstops on Windows 7

I have been quiet annoyed for sometime now because I cannot have multiple desktops. 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 cam across mDesktop. Brilliant! Light weight, small foot print. Very cool.

 

You can find it here http://ping.fm/dx9au

 

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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