9Desks 1.5

9Desks is a program that permits you to have up to 9 virtual desktops for better applications management.
This means that you can work in a more clean environment dividing active applications in more desktops.
9Desks contains many advanced features like rules for starting applications, password for desktops, Active Desktop management, Themes support, Applications Recovery and it is more compatible with third party applications.
Main features:
Nine different customizable desktops
- Each desktop can have a custom name, custom wallpaper, custom password for accessing it; its also possible to hide applications running in a certain desktop to other desktops
Hot-keys support
- Its possible to use Hot-Keys for fast desktop switching (and for fast application moving) and temporaly disable them (very useful if you have to run a game that needs the same combination of hot-keys used by 9Desks).
It maintains the taskbar button order
- When the program autostarts with Windows it is able to maintain the taskbar button order
- Fast application switching
- Ability to move applications among desktops
- Its compatible with all Windows versions
Password protection
- Its possible to protect the program (and desktop) options and unloading by setting a global password
Rules for applications
- You can create rules for starting application which with you can move, minimize, maximize, kill or make transparent applications (transparency requires Win 2000/XP). You can also tell 9Desks to ignore some applications that must be always visible, very useful when youre using programs that (for example) change the default shell (explorer) to another. This guarantee 9Desks to be compatible with all systems and all configurations!
- It maintains the applications focus between desktops
- Multilanguage and UNICODE support
Tray Icon Recovery
- Some time the Windows shell (also know as Program Manager) crashes and some icons in the tray area disappear while relative applications continuing to work; in this case you lose the 9Desks tray icon. You can restore the application icon by simply relauch the program!
Application recovery
- If for any circumstance the program hangs up, simply relauch it in order to recover all applications!
- Themes support
Compatible with many applications
- Its compatible with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher that has a very strange behavior; it tries to kill all windows that are in other desktops!
- 9Desks blocks windows that want to change desktop automatically.
Version restrictions:
- 30 days trial