Vista and XP Virtual Desktops Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Vista and XP Virtual Desktops for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is VirtuaWin, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Vista and XP Virtual Desktops and 11 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Vista and XP Virtual Desktops are Sysinternals Desktops, WindowsPager, 9Desks and mDesktop.

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  1. VirtuaWin icon
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    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’).

    25 VirtuaWin alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  2. Desktops, part of the Sysinternals Suite , 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. WindowsPager icon
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    WindowsPager is a desktop-switcher/pager for Windows to manage virtual workspaces/desktops. It will integrate smoothly into the desktop panel.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4.  3 likes

    9Desks - Virtual Desktops, desktop manager, multi desktops, enhanced virtual desktops

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. mDesktop icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. goScreen icon
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    GoScreen is truly indispensable tool on any Microsoft Windows computer. It creates a number of virtual pages on the monitor screen. When a program is started, it is placed on the current - "active" screen page. When one then goes to another page, the program is left on.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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).

    10 Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Enhancer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. A virtual desktop manager - "Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Hotkeys and System Tray Icon".

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 is the industry’s most widely-used corporate imaging, deployment and system management solution. Use Ghost’s proven hardware-independent imaging capabilities to significantly accelerate day-to-day imaging and deployment needs or to migrate all...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. UDS Enterprise is a top performance multiplatform connection broker to deploy and administer Windows and Linux virtual desktops and applications.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Peach. icon
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    Peach is a Desktop application for Windows 10 that helps you to organize your work via taking a new feature in Windows, Virtual Desktops, and extending its powers to be centered around focusing on your work.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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