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I’ve had to sacrifice one of my work machines, as we have had a new person start who needed a faster machine. I had kind of gotten used to utilising both machines in organising my work, so I have decided to try getting Virtual desktops working in Windows XP (again). Sadly, as far as I can tell, nothing has changed since last time I tried it. All I want is:

• 2-4 virtual desktops, to organise my applications on
• each desktop to ONLY have the applications that are open on that Desktop listed on the taskbar
• A desktop selector on the taskbar
• the ability to move applications to a new desktop.

At the moment, I’m using the Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager. And it’s crap. I have the 4 desktops I want. I have to choose if I want to be able to ’share’ applications. If I select yes, then I can sort-of move the applications to a new desktop by clicking it on the taskbar. This however means that ALL my applications are on the taskbar ALL the time. No Good. If I choose not to ’share’ applications, I only get the applications that are on that desktop, but I can’t move them to another then. The only exception to this that I can find is SAP, which is on all the desktops, all the time.

The most useless thing about it, it the fact that switching desktops causes the toolbars to disappear in MS Access and MS Excel. Which REALLY pisses me off. I keep having to restart these 2 applications, and all the relevent spreadsheets and databases every time I switch desktops.

I sincerely wish that the company I work for wasn’t so MS-centric, so I could have a linux desktop. If anyone knows of any software that can do what I need for WinXP, please tell me!