Any equivalent program to Apple's spaces

[eflat]

I was just playing with Apple's "places" program and it is awesome. It's like having four more computers!

Is there anything like it for windows?

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

I doubt it, it's a system level idea. I really wish something like it existed , Makes me want to go back to OS X.

 

[Nothinman]

There's a handful of software that'll give you multiple desktops on Windows but most of them suck pretty badly. The nVidia drivers come with one and MS even released one although I can't remember what it's called. It's actually kind of sad how poorly it works on Windows because it's one of the most used things on my Linux desktops.

 

[imported_wired247]

dual boot ubuntu ?

 

[0roo0roo]

eh i wouldn't trust it not to crash in windows ...much grief if working with lots of windows.

 

[Nothinman]

eh i wouldn't trust it not to crash in windows ...much grief if working with lots of windows.

It shouldn't affect running applications, just like if you kill explorer and restart it everything else is fine.

 

[theAnimal]

bbLean is what I use.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
There's a handful of software that'll give you multiple desktops on Windows but most of them suck pretty badly. The nVidia drivers come with one and MS even released one although I can't remember what it's called. It's actually kind of sad how poorly it works on Windows because it's one of the most used things on my Linux desktops.

do you mean Deskman Virtual Desktop Manager?

 

[Nothinman]

Possibly, but I've never used it myself.

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: Nothinman
There's a handful of software that'll give you multiple desktops on Windows but most of them suck pretty badly. The nVidia drivers come with one and MS even released one although I can't remember what it's called. It's actually kind of sad how poorly it works on Windows because it's one of the most used things on my Linux desktops.

do you mean Deskman Virtual Desktop Manager?

That's it!

It's actually a lot faster than the Mac program. Although not as pretty of course.

 

[vshah]

just found this
http://www.codeplex.com/vdm
it is pretty sweet, supports live thumbnails under vista

 

[Elias824]

Just get 4 moniters, and 2 video cards and youll be good to go.

 

[Nothinman]

Just get 4 moniters, and 2 video cards and youll be good to go.

That defeats the purpose. And I've got 2 monitors and 8 desktops here in Linux so would you recommend I buy 16 monitors to get the same affect in Windows?

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Just get 4 moniters, and 2 video cards and youll be good to go.

That defeats the purpose. And I've got 2 monitors and 8 desktops here in Linux so would you recommend I buy 16 monitors to get the same affect in Windows?

Duh, isn't that the obvious choice?

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

There used to be a PowerToy for Xp that did something similar to Spaces.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
There used to be a PowerToy for Xp that did something similar to Spaces.

Yea, but it never worked very well. Besides, Spaces didn't really become useful til like 10.5.3 or so.

 

[Lorthreth]

Desktops v1.0
That power toy's replacement, worked quite neatly on my Vista x64 setup. Only thing was that Aero Glass didn't work in desktops 2-4 .