If you ever used a Unix or Mac OS X machine, you will definitely miss the wonderful virtual desktop functionality in the Windows OS for a clutter free productive desktop environment.  Now you get 20 virtual desktops on Windows too and that too for free!

If the Virtual Desktop functionality did not make any sense or you did not use either a Unix or Mac system earlier don’t worry, I will explain it to you in the next few lines. If you know, you can jump to the next paragraph.

Imagine this. As you keep on working on your system, you open a number of windows of different applications for different projects/tasks. You might be browsing as well as editing a video or playing a game at the same time. As you go on, all the windows and projects pile up. So how do you keep order when projects pile up? Thats where Virtual Desktop functionality comes  to your rescue. Using that, you can group your application windows and banish clutter completely and you can switch easily between different desktops as if you had different screens.  [See Picture] . If you already a Mac OS X user, you are probably using SPACES like me. Now you can get the same functionality for free in Windows too and get 20 Virtual desktops for a clutter free environment.

VirtuaWin is is a free software application for Windows which allows you to use the wonderful virtual desktop functionality often used on Unix systems. It is a very simple, powerful and highly configurable software which supports 20 Virtual Desktops for a clutter free work environment.

After you download and install, you can right the green rectangle by right clicking and selecting SETUP. Under General check Enable desktop wrapping. Now under HotKeys, the default settings, will be for NAV(igation) LEFT = W(means the left WINDOWS button) + LEFT arrow key, etc. You can change them if you want, but I find the defaults easy to use. Thats it, try out using the navigation keys, set up desktops, name them and enjoy a clutter free desktop!

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