Robert Leane

And it does basically work very well, and personally I think it's a lot better than the built in Windows desktop manager. Just this one little quirk ...

I have tried the built in Windows desktop manager, Dexpot and VirtuaWin which all work in much the same way. An old Sun workstation I used in the 90s however had all the desktops independent of each other!

I have tried and it is possible to get e.g. Excel to open a new instance every time a file is opened from say Explorer by specifying “excel.exe /x”. However it would be nice to have just one excel instance on each desktop. That way the desktops are completely independent of each other. My real problem is I have one desktop with a massive very slow spreadsheet. I don’t want the other desktops to load into that Excel instance. On the other hand I don’t want to have a new excel instance for every spreadsheet...

If I open a new spreadsheet in Excel (or photo, pdf etc in some other application) in Desktop 2 and an Excel instance is already running in Desktop 1, then VirtuaWin loads the spreadsheet (or whatever) into the instance already active in Desktop 1. How can I force it to open a new instance of Excel in Desktop 2 (unless an instance is already running in Desktop 2)? A FWIW a new Excel instance is possible via the command line "excel.exe /x" but this needs to be built into VirtuaWin. It seems to me...

Tried on two Windows 10 PCs: - I ran vslm_0_4_1_pkg.exe - installed MCR - I then run vslm.exe (from explorer, or DOS prompts having set PATH) The splash screen quickly appears and then nothing happens: - I have left it for literally hours - Task Manager says it is using 30% CPU, but 0 disk or www access - I have also tried running in Admin mode. Any idea what is wrong? I have the identical problem on both a PC and a laptop. Running Win 10 64bit Pro Any help much appreciated!