Comments on: How to Get Virtual Desktops on Windows XP

By: satyendra

satyendra — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:23:24 +0000

hi
plz help me in registry hacking
& network hacking

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:22:18 +0000

Nice.

This works particularly well with remote control software (such as PC anywhere, I use TightVNC). With one remote PC in each desktop it is a really tidy way to run multiple PC’s from a single keyboard & screen. Shame it is limited to four desktops.

It would also have been very nice to support having Nice.

This works particularly well with remote control software (such as PC anywhere, I use TightVNC), with one remote PC in each desktop it is a really tidy way to run multiple PC’s from one keyboard screen.

I was a little disappointed that different sets of desktop icons for each desktop. Oh well.

By: Ferdie

Ferdie — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:41:16 +0000

Sounds like a mixture between TS and virtualization of desktops. Here’s the scenario:

Internet Café with 3 PC boxes – 2 ‘terminal servers’ if you want and an ‘admin pc’ from which the store manager take care of payments, session management, remote admin of pcs etc. The 2 TS each facilitates 6 screens, 6 keyboards and 6 mice connected to it via USB hubs and video cards. This means I can have 12 users at any one time each doing their own thing without having to provide 12 physical PCs. The driver behind this is obviously hardware cost minimization.

By: Martin Wildam

Martin Wildam — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:03:47 +0000

It looks like you are searching for a free alternative to Windows Terminal Server, isn’t it?

By: Ferdie

Ferdie — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:03:30 +0000

I’m looking for software whith which I can share a PC’s CPU via 4 different screens AND keyboards AND mice (bit different than the normal virtual desktop?) This way I can have 4 people + ‘console’ user working on a single pc while I only have to buy a single processor.

I want to make use of Windows XP SP2 or 3, but would love some freeware/GNU software to facilitate the above (One such to-pay-for package is SoftXpand).
Any ideas?

By: Anthony Tietjen

Anthony Tietjen — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:03:23 +0000

I also recommend Virtual Dimension.

Also, you should look into 3D Cubed Desktop Managers.

By: Grant Johnson

Grant Johnson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:37:13 +0000

Unfortunately, the Microsoft VDM power toy does not work with multiple monitors. I would highly recommend Virtual Dimension. It seems to work very nicely, at least for me.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:48:08 +0000

Jayson, the reason it errors out is problably because Excel is a single process no matter how many Excel windows you have open. Every MS Office application works off of a single process. Open 10 word documents and you have a single WINWORD.EXE process. One document errors out and you lose the other 9. It’s a programming/design flaw from Microsoft (go figure).

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:16:11 +0000

I’ve recently started using Desktops from Sysinternals, and am finding it an interesting alternative. The primary difference is that opens up a new instance of the desktop object for each desktop. I’ve found it responsive, though it does eat up some extra memory for each desktop.
http://technet.microsoft.com/e.....17881.aspx

By: jambarama

jambarama — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:44:55 +0000

I’ve tried a few of different windows virtual desktop managers myself. Virtual Desktop Manager from Microsoft was ok. VirtuaWin was buggy for me, and Dexpot was clunky. Far and away, my favorite has been Virtual Dimension, I use it on all my XP desktops. It is simple, lightweight, and sufficiently customizable (e.g. hotkeys).