If your computer is your workplace, with this virtual desktop manager you will be able to increase your productivity sufficiently - work on multiple tasks simultaneously and stay focused on just those that you need at the moment. Plus, you won't be distracted by what's not currently urgent or necessary and by the crowd of windows on your desktop and icons on the taskbar, as you'll see just those that are related to your current job. Actual Virtual Desktops is a virtual desktop manager that allows creating an activity-focused work environment and remove the unnecessary distraction by scattering the multitude of piled up application windows over a number of independent virtual desktops and grouping the applications on the desktops by activities they involved into. With Actual Virtual Desktops, you can create as many virtual desktops as necessary, replacing the single, often overcrowded Windows desktop, and utilize the full power of your operating system, including Windows system utilities, in any window on any of your numerous virtual desktops. You can arrange your applications on your desktops by hand or have the program do that automatically. To arrange application windows automatically, simply define the rules telling the program on which desktop the certain window is to be sent whenever it's launched. The program installs seamlessly, doesn't require extensive configuration or in-depth computer expertise. To quickly identify each of your virtual desktops, you can set custom wallpaper on each desktop. To quickly switch between desktops, you can assign custom hotkey to each virtual desktop. And to manage your windows manually within the virtual desktops infrastructure, you can use the typical window control elements like extra caption button, special item in each window's system window menu, customizable hotkeys, etc.
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 8.14.4 posted on 2020-10-10
1) Added the ability to customize Virtual Desktop Switcher windows on-the-fly. 2) Improved many internal facilities (implies better reliability, compatibility, and performance - see the full changelog). 3) Fixed numerous bugs (see the full changelog). - Version 8.14.3 posted on 2019-12-27
1) Added: Resizing Virtual Desktop Switcher on-the-fly. 2) Fixed: Numerous issues in Virtual Desktops. 3) Fixed: Rare random crashes of running apps. 4) Fixed: Some incompatibility issues with Chromium-based apps. 5) Fixed: Numerous issues with extra title buttons. - Version 8.14.1 posted on 2019-07-09
1) Changed: Internal logic of global hook handlers to run better on multi-core CPUs. 2) Fixed: Notepad got frozen when opened empty in Windows 18362+. 3) Fixed: Icons of some UWP apps did not display in the Virtual Desktop Switcher. 4) Fixed: UWP apps used default icon instead of native icon. - Version 8.14 posted on 2019-05-15
1) Fixed: Office 2013+ apps got frozen after unlocking a user session. 2) Added: High DPI support for configuration windows. 3) Fixed: Excel 2016/2019 lost its ribbon bar. 4) Fixed: Some windows (e.g. Google Chrome) got redrawn very slow. 5) Fixed: Thumbnail previews got empty for hidden windows. - Version 8.13.3 posted on 2018-11-28
1) Fixed: High CPU consumption by SmartScreen. 2) Fixed: Desktops' internal identification. 3) Fixed: Exclusions stopped working since 8.13. 4) Improved: Title buttons appearance in RTL languages (Arabic, Hebrew). 5) Fixed: Title buttons' placing and coloring in Win10 17763+ and Insider 18267+. - Version 8.12.2 posted on 2018-05-21
1) Improved compatibility with Windows 10 Spring Creators Update. - Version 8.12.1 posted on 2018-04-21
1) Changed: Extra buttons' look improved in Win10 Spring Creators Update. 2) Fixed: 64-bit applications might crash sometimes. - Version 8.12 posted on 2018-03-03
1) Fixed: Extra buttons overlapped the My Account button in Google Chrome 64+. 2) Fixed: Extra buttons in Firefox Quantum got misplaced and drawn in wrong color. 3) Fixed: Some applications (e.g. Malwarebytes) might hang at startup if Actual Virtual Desktops was running. - Version 8.11.2 posted on 2017-09-28
1) Improved compatibility with Metro (UWP) apps in Windows 10 Creators Update: fixed crashes at startup, improved extra title buttons colors in apps with custom-colored title bars, improved Compact View popup toolbar behavior. 2) Improved virtual desktops switching using the mouse. - Version 8.11.1 posted on 2017-07-27
1) Improved auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons in Google Chrome. 2) Improved Windows 10 compatibility: a) fixed crashes of various apps (like Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013 installers and components, iTunes Helper, iPod Service, and others); b) fixed hung Magnifier in Lens mode. - Version 8.11 posted on 2017-06-20
1) Added the ability to create specific window settings for Metro (UWP) apps in Windows 10. 2) Added the factory exclusion rule to skip windows with empty captions. 3) Fixed the background spellchecking in MS Word 2016. 4) Fixed the cut captions on the Tools panels in high DPI resolutions. - Version 8.10.2 posted on 2017-03-28
1) Improved title buttons look in Windows 10. 2) Fixed high CPU consumption in UltraEdit. - Version 8.10.1 posted on 2017-02-20
1) Added Arabic translation. 2) Fixed title buttons look in Office 2013/2016 in Windows 10. 3) Fixed Test Regexp dialog in high DPI. - Version 8.9 posted on 2016-07-22
1) Added proper high DPI scaling for Virtual Desktop Switcher, extra title button, program dialogs. 2) Added ability to invoke title button menu via hotkey. 3) Added ability to set arbitrary folder for configuration files. 4) Improved compatibility with Skype, MS Office, Explorer, QuickBooks. - Version 1.1 posted on 2008-10-16
1) Now the title button looks fully native under Windows Vista Aero. 2) The overall stability is improved when running on Windows x64. 3) Now the change of order in the list of virtual desktops is handled correctly. 4) The reaction on Win+D system hotkey is improved.
Program Details
- Category: System Utilities > Shell Tools
- Publisher: Actual Tools
- License: Free Trial
- Price: $19.95
- Version: 8.14.4
- Platform: windows
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