

Also, Desktops is a stand-alone executable whereas the others are all installed, and it is super small and light-weight. The good: it is much more stable than the selections that simply hide and show the applications based on the desktop selected the bad: applications are locked to the desktop they were launched on - there is no moving of applications between desktops.

Otherwise, Desktops is unique among the selections on this list because it actually launches four separate instances of Explorer.exe to house the various applications. Other than shortcut keys to select the desktop you want to view, the only other feature it has is a quick-preview of the four desktops by clicking on the notification center icon. Desktops is limited to four virtual desktops.
