gHacks technology news » microsoft desktops http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:02:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Microsoft Desktops http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-desktops/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/22/microsoft-desktops/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:25:50 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6367 Mark Russinovich and his Sysinternals applications have an excellent reputation among IT professionals. The newest application Microsoft Desktops will surely add to that. It was developed by Mark and Bryce Cogswell and provides the user with up to four virtual desktops to organize the applications.

The interesting aspect about Microsoft Desktops is that it is a lightweight application. It uses less than four Megabytes of computer memory to run which is a very good value for applications of this kind. The user is asked to define the hotkeys that switch between the virtual desktops during program start.

The default option is ALT and the numbers 1-4. Other keys that are available are CTRL, SHIFT and Windows and the F-keys. Switching between the virtual desktops works extremely well and fluent, there is virtually no delay.

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All icons and shortcuts that have been placed on the standard desktop are replicated and available in every virtual desktop as well.

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The program places an icon in the Windows system tray that displays the contents of the virtual desktops when left-clicked. Another click would select the virtual desktop and bring it up on the computer monitor.

The options of Microsoft Desktops are also accessible through the system tray icon.

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