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When you run Desktops for the first time, it displays its configuration dialog box, shown in
Figure 10-10. Use this dialog box to configure the hotkeys that will be used to switch between
desktops and to specify whether Desktops should run automatically whenever you
log on. You can display the configuration dialog box again by right-clicking on the Desktops
notification area icon and choosing Options.
FIGURE 10-10 Desktops configuration dialog box.
To switch between desktops, click the Desktops notification area icon. Desktops will display
the desktop switch window shown in Figure 10-11. The desktop switch window shows
thumbnails of the four available desktops. When you first run Desktops, only Desktop 1 has
been created. When you click one of the other three thumbnails, Desktops creates a new
Windows desktop, starts Explorer on that desktop, and switches to that desktop. A quicker
way to switch to another desktop is to press its hotkey (for example, Alt+3 for Desktop 3).
After you have switched to a desktop, you can start applications on that desktop. Desktop’s
notification area icon highlights which desktop is the one you’re currently viewing and displays
its name in a tooltip. Note that themes or wallpaper set on any desktop apply to all four
desktops.
FIGURE 10-11 The Desktops switch window, with applications running on three of the four desktops.
Desktops’ reliance on Windows desktop objects means that it cannot provide some of
the functionality of other virtual desktop utilities, however. For example, Windows doesn’t
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