Suggestion: Stardock Virtual Desktops

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I would like full-featured Virtual Desktops by Stardock, where each desktop has its own set of position-saved shortcuts/icons, application windows, etc. (with some icons and applications shared across multiple desktops), with Stardock's reliability and usability.

"Dexpot" is the closest thing I have found.  It works well, but very frequently forgets icon positions.  It seems to use multiple "Desktop<N>" folders and switches/copies the folder of the selected <N> "desktop" to the standard Windows' "Desktop" folder.

I am a long-time software developer and use largely unique shortcut/icon and windows configurations for example, separate desktops for each of "Main", "C++", "Java", "JavaScript", "C#", "PostgreSQL", "R", and special project-related desktops (currently 9 total).  I make heavy use of differing sets shortcuts/icons (many hundreds overall) on the desktops to avoid having to remember too many file and Internet paths, and utilize separate application windows on the desktops to facilitate remembering the state in which I left a particular task.

Stardock has several tools that each provide part of the solution, but none that cleanly handle the full benefit of "virtual desktops".

--Wayne

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

I understand your request, perhaps you can look into using Stardock's Start11v2. With Start11v2 you can setup different tabs and pages of Start Menu and you can set which of those pages open on that specific virtual desktop. My screen shot below as an example. I have another page where I have all my Games short cuts. So when I on another desktop, the "Games" page open up when I click on my Start button.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.