Sysinternals Desktops Alternatives

Sysinternals Desktops is described as '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' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Sysinternals Desktops for Windows, PortableApps.com, Spaces and Mac. The best alternative is Dexpot. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try VirtuaWin or WindowsPager. Other great apps like Sysinternals Desktops are Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Enhancer, TotalSpaces, mDesktop and zVirtualDesktop.

Sysinternals Desktops alternatives are mainly Window Managers but may also be Desktop Customization Tools or Desktop Environments. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Sysinternals Desktops.

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Sysinternals Desktops

Free • Proprietary
Windows

Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the...

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Dexpot
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Windows
28 alternatives to Dexpot
Dexpot turns your monitor into up to 20. It creates and manages virtual desktops and enables you to work far more efficiently and comfortably with many simultaneously opened windows on Windows 95/98/ME and NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista (incl. x64).
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Multiple desktops
Discontinued
Dead app. 3 years since the last update. Not compatible with current version of Windows. See changelog: http://www.dexpot.de/?id=changelog
VirtuaWin
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Free • Open Source
Windows
PortableApps.com
25 alternatives to VirtuaWin
VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7/Win10). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called ‘workspaces’).
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1. PortableVirtuaWin can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
WindowsPager
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Free • Open Source
Windows
13 alternatives to WindowsPager
WindowsPager is a desktop-switcher/pager for Windows to manage virtual workspaces/desktops. It will integrate smoothly into the desktop panel.

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Discontinued
Hasn't been updated since 2011, see changelog:http://windowspager.sourceforge.net/changelog.html
Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Enhancer
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Free • Open Source
Windows
10 alternatives to Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Enhancer
An AutoHotkey script to switch and move programs between Windows 10 Virtual Desktops and set different wallpapers. Light, lightning fast, free, and with AHK you can use almost any key/mouse combos (even override Windows shortcuts).
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Keyboard Shortcuts
TotalSpaces
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Spaces
18 alternatives to TotalSpaces
TotalSpaces provides a grid of spaces on OSX Lion

An easy to use 2D grid of desktops, inspired by the implementation OS X Snow Leopard. Navigate using the cursor keys, choose your transitions, and quickly access a birds eye view of your grid of spaces where you can manage your a.

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mDesktop
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Free • Open Source
Windows
13 alternatives to mDesktop
mDesktop is a lightweight application that allows the user to utilize multiple virtual desktops. Also, mDesktop integrates with Hotcorners. mDesktop currently supports up to ten virtual desktops.
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Support for Hot corners
zVirtualDesktop
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
13 alternatives to zVirtualDesktop
A virtual desktop manager - "Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Hotkeys and System Tray Icon".
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1. PortablezVirtualDesktop can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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Virtuoz
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Free • Open Source
Window Manager
Desktop Customization Tool
Desktop Environment
Windows
23 alternatives to Virtuoz
Virtuoz was designed to be a minimal and robust program that allows to have more than one desktop on Windows. It was inspired by Sysinternals Desktops, but uses a different approach, which doesn’t impose the limitations which Desktops is bound to.
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1. PortableVirtuoz can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Multiple desktops
Vista and XP Virtual Desktops
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Free • Open Source
Windows
15 alternatives to Vista and XP Virtual Desktops
One of Vistas most talked-about new features is the Desktop Window Manager (DWM). A new set of thumbnail APIs can be used to access thumbnails of open windows. This virtual desktop program takes advantage of this new API and uses some tricks of its own to provide a powerful...

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nVIDIA Quadro View
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
21 alternatives to nVIDIA Quadro View
Effectively manage your desktop with nVIDIA Quadro View. Using NVIDIA Quadro ViewDesktop Management Software, professionals have maximum flexibility and unprecedented control of a single or multiple display environments.
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Multiple desktops

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