MSVDM Powertoy (XP Pro)

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Does anyone use the destop manager (virtual desktops) powertoy in XP Pro?

I’ve been playing around with it and I would appreciate the input of someone who’s used it a bit more, as the help file is pretty brief.

The main thing I want to do is be able to send an open window to a different screen, with shared desktops turned off, so for example if I open a browser in window 1, I would then like to be able to send it to window 2. Is this possible?

Thanks,
Mark

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I played with it some, and it’s neet to be able to switch wallpapers and stuff, but I didn’t see any real advantage to using it. I just set up a new XP machine; I did set up TweakUI and a couple of the other toys, but passed on MSVDM. It did seem stable and caused me no real problems. I just didn’t see any real reason to continue to use it.

YMMV.

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I find virtual desktops very handy for having e-mail in one, word in another etc. I’ve been using a third party virtual desktop manager for a while in 2000, so when I got XP it seemed logical to use microsoft’s version instead. I like the integration into the taskbar, and it does seem stable, it’s just a matter of getting used to how it works.
If anyone can help me out with the original query I’d be grateful

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Didn’t mean to duck your original question. The answer is no, I don’t think so. I did look, and what little information the Help file offers makes no mention of it.

Another detail I can pass along is that VNC (Bell Labs’ remote access software) doesn’t work well with it (it tends to screw up wallpaper settings), and I would surmise that other remote access software would have similar problems, because it’s remapping video in a non-standard way.

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hmm, thats a good point.. I use radmin, I’ll have to see how that copes with it.

Shame about not being able to pass windows to the different desktops, that’s a bit of a limitation fir me…

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Has anyone tried the Remote Desktop feature built into XP? Similar to Terminal Services, but now it’s available on Pro platform. And the Remote Desktop Client is a lot nicer than the older Terminal Services Client. XP’s client can run on any Windows 32-bit OS (and the best part is you can also use it to connect to W2K Servers running Terminal Services).

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I haven’t used it, but I’m sure I will have a play at some point.. I’ll let you know how I find it As I mentioned i’ve been using RAdmin for a while, and I used VNC before that, so it’s old news really

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