![]() ![]() Lately I have received my new “freeware” little Jonathan 5 months old now … As a new father I have looked for ways to catch his attention – YouTube animated musical songs are wonderful, but still something with interaction was missing. I first learned about this program when my friend Elioz Hefer emailed me about it. You can join the Soup Toys community and download new ones or upload your own. The program also features dozens of pre-made sets, instantly playable toys and objects arranged by a specific theme. SoupToys lets you place a wide variety of toys on your desktop, from blocks to cars to ramps to balls etc.Īll of these objects are simulated to obey the laws of physics you can fling them around or set them up to interact with each other, but what is more impressive is that all the toys behave as they should magnets attract metal objects, basketballs bounce higher than soccer balls, care run and accelerate and careen over ramps, etc. If you’ve used a tool like this in the past, you may have seen your windows minimize and maximize as you switch between desktops.Do you have a toddler that is always trying to play on your computer? Or maybe you have a small child within that misses playing with blocks and balls and toy cars?Įither way, you will like this free program. They don’t create real virtual desktops - they “fake it” by remembering which windows should be minimized and which should be maximized. However, most virtual desktop tools just work by minimizing and maximizing windows. These tools generally have more features and can feel a bit more “seamless” - you can move windows between virtual desktops and see all your open windows on each desktop’s taskbar, if you like. For example, we thought Dexpot worked very well and there are other virtual desktop managers you can download. There are other virtual desktop tools that seem more powerful. The Sysinternals Desktops v2.0 downloads page explains the limitations of the tool well. ![]() RELATED: How to Get Virtual Desktops on Windows with Dexpot Of course, if you want to stop using it, you should disable the “Run automatically at logon” option first. ![]() The recommended way to close Desktops v2.0 is to log off and log back on. ![]() If you want to run the tool automatically at login, click the Run automatically at logon checkbox. You’ll see the minimal Desktops setup window. Open the downloaded Desktops.zip file, extract the Desktops.exe file, and double-click it. Most of them are powerful system utilities full of useful information - not small tools like this one. If you’re a Windows power user, you should get familiar with the SysInternals tools. Sysinternals was once a third-party collection of tools, but the Sysinternals tools are so useful and powerful that Microsoft bought them all a few years ago. RELATED: What Are the SysInternals Tools and How Do You Use Them?ĭownload Desktops v2.0 from MIcrosoft’s Windows Sysinternals site. You don’t have to pay up, deal with nag screens, or deal with a cluttered application to use them. The tool is small, lightweight, and free. While Microsoft’s Virtual Desktops PowerToy hasn’t worked since Windows XP, they do provide another tool that will let you use virtual desktops on modern versions of Windows. ![]()
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