Sysinternals’ Desktops
Microsoft’s Sysinternals team, who is already know for their work writing some the THE best tools around for system administration and has added a new gem to their crown. Desktops 1.0. It is an ultralight weight tool that allows you to swap between four desktops by hotkey or mouse click.
The Good
- The tool is very light weight only being one file and is a whopping 118,824 bytes, no DLLs or other files are needed.
- It works well with multi-monitor systems creating it’s virtual desktops that spanned both monitors.
The Bad
- There do not seem to be any major issues, other then it would not allow me to open a second copy of firefox in one of other desktops.
Microsoft description of the tool is:
Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you’re not using. After you configure hotkeys for switching desktops, you can create and switch desktops either by clicking on the tray icon to open a desktop preview and switching window, or by using the hotkeys