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i have recently stumbled across a neat little utility for windows which allows you have virtual desktops. it's one of those features that probably should have been part of windows years ago, but the engineers at microsoft perhaps thought flip3d would be much more useful.

this is similar to the xp powertoy which did the same thing, except this one seems to work correctly.



you can get it yourself from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 17881.aspx


no install needed, it's a single monolithic executable.

Always with the pr0n.

Anyway, when will Windows catch up with the remainder of the computing world and have it as an integral part of the OS?

The moment Microsoft finds a way to overcomplicate it and implement it really badly. I thought they'd cracked it with the XP power tool but obviously they figured they have a way to go.

Nini wrote:Always with the pr0n.

Anyway, when will Windows catch up with the remainder of the computing world and have it as an integral part of the OS?

Y'know, I'm not sure it is that integral. The shortcuts don't work properly for me (WinKey+1,2,3,4 and WinKey+F1,F2,F3,F4 are already assigned for one thing), and whlie I love my dual-monitor configuration on my desktop installing this program on my laptop just wasn't on a par. It's a bit like Apple's Spaces feature, isn't it? I wasn't very fond of it on Apple, either, you see. It's too many hierarchies of organisation.

Essentially it reminds me of the big tabs-in-web-browers problem. See, fundamentally I don't believe web browsers should have tabs. Tabs are just a symptom of a bigger problem with window organisation. Grouping windows should be done by the OS, and there should be an extra taskbar at the top of every monitor which displays this grouping.

On the other hand one thing I would pay good money for is software that can increase the resolution of my laptop's display above the number of pixels, and let me move my mouse around moving the extra resolution space around behind the mouse in the opposite direction. Similar to Apple's absolutely fantastic Accessibility: Zoom feature, which I really, you know, dig, except with extra horizontal pixels rather than just blowing up the screen.

cdd wrote:(wrong)

I'm sorry but you're wrong.

lol.

Anyway hasn't X-Windows had this feature for nigh-on 20 years now?

jjames wrote:lol.

Anyway hasn't X-Windows had this feature for nigh-on 20 years now?

Yes, but it has only recently gotten any users.