Adding Virtual Desktops to Windows 7

Windows 7 is certainly the best operating system from Microsoft so far, but sometimes you still come upon some features in other operating systems (e.g., Linux or Mac) that Windows 7 lacks. All the popular flavors of Linux have a virtual desktop feature which is not present in Windows 7. Luckily, it is easy to integrate virtual desktop feature in Windows 7 using a freeware application called mDesktop. mdesktop - Virtual Desktops for Windows. - Google Project Hosting

mDesktop is an open source application for Windows and supports Windows XP, Vista and 7. It is available both as an installer and as a portable app. You can download and install it in Windows and it would install a notification area icon. By default, four virtual desktops are available. To switch to a virtual desktop, you can right-click on this notification area icon and choose a virtual desktop from the context-menu. You can also switch to desktops using hotkeys Alt+1, Alt+2, Alt+3 and so on.



mDesktop supports up to ten virtual desktops. You can add more virtual desktops in the mDesktop settings. You can open the settings from the notification area icon’s right-click menu. In the settings window, you can add/remove virtual desktops, customize hotkeys for switching through virtual desktops, choose mDesktop to automatically run at Windows startup and more.



If you don't like the default virtual desktop names – Desktop 1, Desktop 2 etc., then you can also assign your own custom names under the Desktop Names tab. You can also specify some windows to be visible on all the virtual desktops in the Windows tab.

If you're tired of making your way through an over-cluttered desktop in Windows 7, enjoy the convenience of having multiple virtual desktops in Windows 7 with mDesktop. Using a virtual desktop you can arrange your open windows and applications in several virtual desktops making it easier to work through them and giving your desktop a cleaner look.