{"id":406,"date":"2007-09-07T21:26:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T02:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/07\/vista-virtual-desktops\/"},"modified":"2007-09-07T21:29:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T02:29:56","slug":"vista-virtual-desktops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/07\/vista-virtual-desktops\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista Virtual Desktops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/44\/273374014_fbbf5f62cf_m.jpg\" height=\"180\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 180px\" \/>I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/vdm\">Vista Virtual Desktops<\/a> today.\u00a0 If you find your normal desktop gets a little crowded from too many programs open at the same time, give this program a try.<\/p>\n<p>It installs a system tray application that is activated by pressing short-cut keys.\u00a0 Any application can be sent to one of four virtual windows by pressing Windows-W.\u00a0 The interface can be switched to any virtual window by toggling Windows-Z or by pressing the\u00a0Windows key and the corresponding\u00a0keypad number 1, 2, 3 or 4.<\/p>\n<p>It works quite well even with my two-monitor setup.\u00a0 The download says it works with Vista or XP.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t tried it on XP yet.\u00a0 I will install it on my tablet to test it.\u00a0 The tablet is the machine I use in class.\u00a0 The virtual window will be perfect for popping up pre-configured screens at the right time to share with my class.<\/p>\n<p>I never close my email program.\u00a0 That is a problem because it can interrupt me when I don&#8217;t need the distraction.\u00a0 When I need &#8220;solitude&#8221; I can open an empty virtual window and work without seeing (or closing) my disruptive email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across Vista Virtual Desktops today.\u00a0 If you find your normal desktop gets a little crowded from too many programs open at the same time, give this program a try. It installs a system tray application that is activated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/07\/vista-virtual-desktops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}