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Maybe it's fixed in Windows 11. I had 3rd party code for multiple desktops on Windows Xp and 7. It was wonderful.
Windows 10 comes along, and MS has *their* version and my favorite app goes bye bye. Fine - I'll ctrl-windows left/arrow to swap desktops. Desktop changes but it won't tell you what desktop you are on (see footnote below).
Seriously, I have to click on task view to find out what desktop I am on?
You push crap out to me all the time, and you cannot give me a shaded popup? You know, something useful and not half baked like your elephanting operating system?
breath, deep breathes... lower BP.
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As an aside to my rant, for those of you who use multiple desktops, how many? I'm up to 6.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Try 'Win->Tab' followed by 'Shift->Tab'. You can choose which desktop that way quite easy. Or use the little 'window selection button' if it is on your taskbar, right next to the start button and mouse it.
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I get that, but work with me. MS's implementation allows me to name desktops. Don't you think it would be useful to show the title of the desktop when doing so? That was my point.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Huh? It shows the names at the top of the screen, after the Win->Tab.
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Okay, yes, I agree, but I'm a fussy user  . I love keyboard shortcuts. Why cannot windows shift left/right show my the title? I want to move fast and not leave the keyboard.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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*lol* Win7 and Win XP.
Not sure, but how many years back do you support your apps?  
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smart a$$. I have apps running on CE 4.1 from 2004. My customers never kill anything off until it's inevitable .
Looking at my 2 Xp VMs, 3 Windows 7 VMs...
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Hear! hear!
Just the other day I answered a question about a 2007 installation. End customer moved from an XP machine.
Mircea
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excuse me? we're laughing here
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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windows XP was the last time they came out with a decent OS. 
I have clients still running on it, trouble free.
"Old Man look at my life" - Neil Young
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charlieg wrote: Maybe it's fixed in Windows 11
Not quite: the "Task View" icon shows the desktops when you just hoover over it. There is a little blue dot indicating the current one.
charlieg wrote: As an aside to my rant, for those of you who use multiple desktops, how many? I'm up to 6.
Usually 2, sometimes 3. Me think 6 is a bit much. Maybe it's time to join Desktop Anonymous for a desktop detox 
Mircea
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Around 30 but please don't make me count how many groups and icons I have in my Start menu. And what did Microsoft do in Windows 11? Removed grouping in Start menu 
Mircea
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I have a folder of short cuts that I put on my taskbar. It is like a mini start menu for my top 9 apps.
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charlieg wrote: for those of you who use multiple desktops, how many?
I tried multiple desktops and found it utterly confusing as to what stuff was where. Navigating with Win/Shift Tab kept cramping my fingers. Moving stuff between desktops, can't even remember the keyboard/mouse gymnastics to do that.
The idea is cool, the implementation sucks. Hence I have a laptop workstation with three monitors and a second laptop also with three monitors. (Both counting the laptop's monitor.)
I find it a lot easier to control 6 monitors as "desktops" across two computers from one mouse and keyboard using Synergy than all that gawdawful mouse, keyboard and wand waving. Desktopum-Appearum!
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It's not like Microsoft's version has been around since 2006[^] or anything.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You know, it was so long ago when I went out and bought that other s/w. Maybe I just didn't see the reference.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: As an aside to my rant, for those of you who use multiple desktops, how many? I'm up to 6.
I'm up to 1. I don't have the mental agility to switch contexts so quickly that having multiple desktops would help.
I recently enabled multiple desktops for the first time on my machine at home, as I was debugging an issue possibly related to the feature. I hated the Windows 11 implementation. Windows only displays the desktop name while you're switching. It's not intuitive at all how you can specify individual wallpapers for each desktop, which seems an easy workaround for the problem.
Fortunately multiple desktops was not part of the problem, and I could turn the thing back off.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I was not aware of that particular key combination.
I currently have 2 desktop sessions opened. Ctrl-Win-Right brings me from my current (#1) to #2. Since there's only 2, Ctrl-Win-Right does nothing (as opposed to wrapping back to the first, which I agree might get confusing). How many of these do you have opened at once anyway?
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charlieg wrote: As an aside to my rant, for those of you who use multiple desktops, how many? I'm up to 6.
I only use 3 desktops, but that's across 6 monitors.
Also, surely the purpose of multiple desktops is to organise apps, so I have development, support and communication desktops and can usually tell from a glance at the primary taskbar where I am - Outlook open = communication, Visual Studio open = development, RDCMAN open = support!
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I've read all of the Dilbert comic series.
Yes, the entire collection from April 16, 1989 thru today.
I'm reading through a new comic called Brewster Rockit & this one strikes me as the definitive one to explain the series:
Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for February 14, 2005 - GoComics[^]
It's an interesting comic I've never read before. Great for sci-fi & fantasy nerds like me -- it parodies The Hobbit, Star Trek & many others.
Have you read it?
Edit / Update
This one cracks me up, because it is how the Same Message (or same information) impacts different people. Each person hears something slightly different. Cracks. Me. Up!
it's just like an IT Meeting.
Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for March 05, 2005 - GoComics[^]
modified 14-Mar-22 16:15pm.
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Not seen it before, but yesterday's is a classic.
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