OT: Multiple desktops in Windows (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office being recommended on Microsoft Answers Forums!)

On 2011-08-12, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

> 2011/8/12 Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbplinux@gmail.com>:
> > On 12/08/2011 00:24, upscope wrote:
> > > +5 that's what I did 12 years ago when my Win ME died.
> >
> > I can understand that! Win ME was worse than Vista (if that's possible!(.
> > However, using both Linux and Windows 7 I can say that Win 7 is actually not
> > bad.
>
> Does that mean that it has multiple desktops and that the drive
> letters are gone?

Multiple desktops is more of a window manager issue rather than a OS
issue, but anyway, people in Windows aren't as used to use different WMs
as people who use X in the UNIX world are.

There was a tool to add multiple desktops to Windows, part of the
Powertoys pack for Windows XP, but I don't know if it works with 7:

Direct link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=211482
The powertoys page: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/windows-xp?T1=PT

And for some context: http://enwp.org/Virtual_desktop#Windows --
according to this, there's another tool, Desktops.

> From its description, it seems Desktops is better than the powertoy, but
I never tried it.

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