Comments on: Microsoft Desktops http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-desktops/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:50:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: I want a real multiple desktop software http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-desktops/#comment-486433 I want a real multiple desktop software Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:19:54 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6367#comment-486433 “All icons and shortcuts that have been placed on the standard desktop are replicated and available in every virtual desktop as well.” Which is exactly what I DO NOT want. What I DO want is completely separate desktops where everything (icons, icons sizes, icon layouts, themes, etc.) is isolated and separated from the other desktops. Let me know if you find a TRUE virtual desktop program. “All icons and shortcuts that have been placed on the standard desktop are replicated and available in every virtual desktop as well.”

Which is exactly what I DO NOT want.

What I DO want is completely separate desktops where everything (icons, icons sizes, icon layouts, themes, etc.) is isolated and separated from the other desktops.

Let me know if you find a TRUE virtual desktop program.

]]> By: Robsku http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-desktops/#comment-469621 Robsku Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:32:07 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6367#comment-469621 I would not like that... I like simple desktops and as I have to use Windows XP at school I was glad to discover that close relative of my other favorite window manager (fluxbox, Ion2 is my other fav.) has a windows port that can replace explorer.exe as desktop fully. I mean BlackBox port called bb4win. By default it provides 4 desktops but you can add or decrease the count of them to any that you might want. Originally it does not provide any kind of icons on desktop, but on windows version they have added support for various plugins to place on desktop - one of them providing customizable icons. I'm not sure if the plugins can be set up differently on different desktops but unfortunately I think that they are static... However the major point of having multiple desktops is running different application(s) on different desks. bb4win is also much lighter in both, memory and cpu usage. I would not like that… I like simple desktops and as I have to use Windows XP at school I was glad to discover that close relative of my other favorite window manager (fluxbox, Ion2 is my other fav.) has a windows port that can replace explorer.exe as desktop fully. I mean BlackBox port called bb4win.

By default it provides 4 desktops but you can add or decrease the count of them to any that you might want. Originally it does not provide any kind of icons on desktop, but on windows version they have added support for various plugins to place on desktop – one of them providing customizable icons. I’m not sure if the plugins can be set up differently on different desktops but unfortunately I think that they are static… However the major point of having multiple desktops is running different application(s) on different desks. bb4win is also much lighter in both, memory and cpu usage.

]]> By: Microsoft Desktops, i desktop virtuali arrivano su Windows - Geekissimo http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-desktops/#comment-460278 Microsoft Desktops, i desktop virtuali arrivano su Windows - Geekissimo Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:04:52 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6367#comment-460278 [...] Via | gHacks [...] [...] Via | gHacks [...]

]]> By: Life Clerks » Microsoft Desktops Gives Windows Super-Simple Multiple Desktops [Featured Windows Download] http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-desktops/#comment-456504 Life Clerks » Microsoft Desktops Gives Windows Super-Simple Multiple Desktops [Featured Windows Download] Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:36:19 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6367#comment-456504 [...] Windows only: Desktops, a new Vista-compatible 1.0 release from Microsoft’s Sysinternals team, is a multi-desktop tool for Windows users who don’t want, or can’t afford the system resources for, a complete virtual desktop solution, such as VirtuaWin or other tools we’ve covered. Desktops simply asks you to assign universal shortcut keys for desktop switching between a maximum of four (Shift+Ctrl+F1, for example), and then nests in your system tray to offer thumbnail views and switching by clicking. One plus is that Desktops doesn’t load new memory-hogging desktops until you create them. The big downsides are an inability to drag apps between desktops, along with incompatibility with some tools (Firefox, Launchy, and anything that doesn’t like multiple instances, for that matter). So it’s mostly a simple means of keeping full-screen email, browsers, office apps, and other programs separated, but it does that pretty well—with improvements, hopefully, to come. Desktops is a free download for Windows systems only. Desktops [Windows Sysinternals via gHacks] [...] [...] Windows only: Desktops, a new Vista-compatible 1.0 release from Microsoft’s Sysinternals team, is a multi-desktop tool for Windows users who don’t want, or can’t afford the system resources for, a complete virtual desktop solution, such as VirtuaWin or other tools we’ve covered. Desktops simply asks you to assign universal shortcut keys for desktop switching between a maximum of four (Shift+Ctrl+F1, for example), and then nests in your system tray to offer thumbnail views and switching by clicking. One plus is that Desktops doesn’t load new memory-hogging desktops until you create them. The big downsides are an inability to drag apps between desktops, along with incompatibility with some tools (Firefox, Launchy, and anything that doesn’t like multiple instances, for that matter). So it’s mostly a simple means of keeping full-screen email, browsers, office apps, and other programs separated, but it does that pretty well—with improvements, hopefully, to come. Desktops is a free download for Windows systems only. Desktops [Windows Sysinternals via gHacks] [...]

]]> By: Jojo http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-desktops/#comment-456166 Jojo Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:57:53 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6367#comment-456166 "All icons and shortcuts that have been placed on the standard desktop are replicated and available in every virtual desktop as well." Which is exactly what I DO NOT want. What I DO want is completely separate desktops where everything (icons, icons sizes, icon layouts, themes, etc.) is isolated and separated from the other desktops. Let me know if you find a TRUE virtual desktop program. “All icons and shortcuts that have been placed on the standard desktop are replicated and available in every virtual desktop as well.”

Which is exactly what I DO NOT want.

What I DO want is completely separate desktops where everything (icons, icons sizes, icon layouts, themes, etc.) is isolated and separated from the other desktops.

Let me know if you find a TRUE virtual desktop program.

]]> By: Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-desktops/#comment-456107 Martin Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:58:59 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6367#comment-456107 Well it works nicely on my end. You can end the applications in the Task Manager. Yes, that's a bit unfortunate ;) Well it works nicely on my end. You can end the applications in the Task Manager. Yes, that’s a bit unfortunate ;)

]]> By: Domdom http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-desktops/#comment-456097 Domdom Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:48:02 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6367#comment-456097 Doesnt work at all :-( For instance I create Desktop2 and it keeps reverting to Desktop1, then Desktop2 is not "blank" ... not ready yet it would seem ... no option to quit the program either ... Doesnt work at all :-(
For instance I create Desktop2 and it keeps reverting to Desktop1, then Desktop2 is not “blank” … not ready yet it would seem …
no option to quit the program either …

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