DeskSpace 1.5.5.2

• License:

  Free to try; $24.95 to buy

• Editor's Rating:

  2.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.0 stars (out of 3 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  7,499

• Operating Systems:

  Windows Vista, Windows XP

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows XP/2003 Server/Vista

• Limitations:

  14-day trial

• Date Added:

  October 01, 2008

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Publisher's description of DeskSpace

DeskSpace significantly increases your desktop space, allowing you to work and play on multiple desktops. With DeskSpace you can organize your programs and icons on multiple 3D desktops, and quickly switch between these desktops using the mouse and keyboard. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Editor's review of DeskSpace

• 2.5 stars

• "Overly complicated desktop creator"

• Reviewed by: CNET staff
• Reviewed on: May 4, 2009
• Version reviewed: DeskSpace 1.5.5.2

DeskSpace promises to help users manage their cluttered desktops by providing multiple 3D desktops to toggle through. While this sounds like a promising development, DeskSpace is one headache after another.

The program appears as an icon in the tray. A user's first instinct is to double click on a program to start it. However, here such a move takes you to a menu to help set up desktop hot keys. There are other options offering ways to customize DeskSpace. Left clicking and right clicking the tray icon presents a dropdown menu of other options. At no point did we see a 3D version of our desktop.

Further studying and a visit to the Help menu showed us how to create hot keys that supposedly bring the new desktop to the foreground. Nothing we did could make DeskSpace perform its duties.

This 14-day trial professes to offer a unique product that could help many people, but by burying it behind endless menus and shortcut keys, it winds up just frustrating. We do not recommend this download for anyone.

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• 4 stars

  Version: DeskSpace 1.5.5.2

  "No multiple dreamscene desktop support"

  by hussaise2008 on November 26, 2008

  Pros: Works amazingly smooth with my vista ultimate dual core, 128 bit graphics laptop,
  It is very well developed to mimic better than Linux's "compiz fusion's" cube desktop.
  It will make my friends drool for with jelousy

  Cons: Doesnt support multiple vista dreamscene desktops as it would consume more of the system.
  The options and setting can be made simpler to understand without time consumingly fiddling the options.

  Summary: Try the trial verion. Need I say more.

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• 4 stars

  Version: DeskSpace 1.5.5.2

  "best piece of eye candy software. useful too"

  by josephfuentes on November 16, 2008

  Pros: very beautiful. impressive. and most importantly useful too. my kids & wife will be impressed.

  Cons: it takes a while to get used to. perhaps there should be a flash tutorial to walk you through the basics on how to use.

  Summary: Great piece of software. I did the trial version and will buy.

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• 5 stars

  Version: DeskSpace 1.5.5.2

  "This program should be part of the OS!"

  by lryman2000 on November 9, 2008

  Pros: Fast, Really gives you more deskspace, Very well written and thought out.

  Cons: None so far

  Summary: This program is so fast with so many small details already though of and taken into consideration you'll wonder why it isn't built into the OS. Sometimes I run Linux which has a nice little 3D desktop app which puts multiple desktops on the face of... read more >>

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