Are Virtual-Desktop Managers good or bad for system resources?

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Published on 2010-04-30T23:32:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 23:39 UTC
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I am looking at Virtual-Desktop Managers for Windows 7. Right now it seems that VirtualWin is supposed to be about the best one available for use on Windows. I have never used anything like this though and I am just curious from others experience and knowledge, does something like this hog up a lot of system resources?

I do not NEED it but it is a nice feature to have when I do want to use it, my PC's performance is more important then using it. So is virtual esktop managers a resource hog or probably not?

Please share any tips/advice/ or comments on them, thank you =)

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