Often, even with a widescreen monitor, my desktop is too unorganized. I've got way too many programs open, and it's annoying to switch back and forth to all of them, alt+tabbing through the list to find what I need. Enter VirtuaWin.

VirtuaWin allows you to have up to 9 virtual desktops with separate windows on them. Here's how I've got mine split up right now:

1. Background (never need to see, but want these windows open and running) - a Firefox window with online streaming radio
2. Programming - Eclipse, a program I use to program web applications, and Pidgin instant messenger
3. Web - Another Firefox window with tabs for what I'm working on.
   
4. Personal - some side programs that I have open that aren't related to work.

So I program on desktop 2, then flip over to 3 to reload Firefox for my web application - both able to be full-screen, and the switch is a 2-key combination and unlike Alt+Tab, I don't have to sort through all my programs to get to the one I want.

Totally free.

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