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BillW50 wrote:
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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I use AltDesk most of the time, so this behavior is different than
stock Windows. And I can have as many desktops as I want. One thing
I really like about AltDesk is not having to minimize one
application and restoring another. As I just use one hotkey to do
both at the same time.

(How does it know which two windows to minimise/maximise?)

Easy, run one application per desktop and then just switch to the
other application (in this case desktop).

Anyway how it works here is each desktop has its own active window.
And it stays that way even using a hotkey to jump around from
desktop to desktop.

I think that's a little radical for me at my stage, though thanks for
suggesting!

It isn't radical or anything really. I think it is totally practical
myself. There are lots of free ones out there and most of the free
ones only have up to four desktops. AltDesk you can have zillions of
them if you want to. Here are some free ones to play with.

Desktops
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../cc817881.aspx

Moo0 MultiDesktop (Free) - A Simple Multi-Desktop Environment
http://www.moo0.com/software/MultiDesktop/

Virtual desktops have been used a lot on *nix systems for years. Most
Windows users don't know anything about them though.

I was playing with the above two free ones and there is an old XP
PowerToys one called "Virtual Desktop Manager" that I think I like
better out of all of the free ones. I can't find a direct URL for it,
but if you go to:

Windows XP downloads - Microsoft Windows
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ads/windows-xp

And the website has a PowerToys tab. Click on that one. Then you should
be able to see the Virtual Desktop Manager. And if you download and
install, you probably won't find it anywhere. No problem, because you
need to right click on the Taskbar select Tools and then Desktop Manager
and it will show up on the Taskbar. To turn it off, just check it again.
The options for it is right clicking on it. There is even a little help
file.

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Bill
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