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I am looking for a utility that does the same task done by Spaces for Mac OS X.
For who doesn't know it, it's a utility that allows you to create virtual screens in order to not have all the screens in a single screen.

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Try Desktops from Sysinternals.

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Alternatively, there is WindowsPager which is also free.

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  • Thank you for your reply. Which one would you suggest to use on a netbook running Window 7 Starter with 1 GB of RAM?
    – apaderno
    Aug 17, 2010 at 21:22
  • You're welcome. "Desktops" should be fine.
    – Mehper C. Palavuzlar
    Aug 17, 2010 at 21:50
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Windows now includes a feature called Task View which is very similar to macOS's Mission Control/Spaces. In the Windows 10 taskbar, click the "Task View" button on the right of the search bar to add desktops and switch between them.

This answer on a similar question has more detail.

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  • I know this question was originally asked about Windows 7, but it is still the top search result when I was searching the same question for Windows 10. So hopefully this is helpful to someone else!
    – Craig Brown
    May 5, 2021 at 15:29
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    It seems it is helpful as this is now Google's featured answer!
    – Patrick
    May 28, 2022 at 15:39
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You could try out VirtuaWin ( http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ ). It's pretty lightweight, opensource and also a portable application. (and yes, despite not beeing mentioned on the projects frontpage, it's also working on Win7.

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Finestra Virtual Desktops from codeplex is also free and not too bad

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