For a true separate desktop tools try the one in the freebie sysinternals suite available from sysinternals.com (will redirect to an MS website that is now the home of them).

It has *true* multiple desktops — the progs in each can’t float to other desktops like in the XP multi-DT tool. A program started in one isn’t likely to interfere with one started in another.

There’s also 3-D CUBE for multiple desktops that runs around $19 (not free software, so maybe for your closed-source spirit it would be better.)
See http://www.thinkinbytes.com/en/home/index.php for options.

….interesting reading your troubles….if I spent all my time blogging about all the problems I have in windows, I’d never get the problems solved… (and they just keep on coming!).

Got home now and fixed it.

For some reason your comments keep getting cued for moderation. Not sure why.

Thanks for the tips.

Re: Putty. I downloaded the complete package. I also told Windows not to bug me every time I run this program and since then it hasn’t asked me for confirmation again.

Win7 has a very pretty switcher when you press Win+tab. I guess it is just a matter of me being used to working a certain way.

I wholeheartedly agree, and the same thing applies to desktop icons, too. Which is why I quickly disable both: right-click on the desktop -> View -> Show desktop icons/gadgets.

On the other hand, you can make gadgets display on top of everything else by right-clicking them…

> Right now I have to click on the taskbar Icon for word, select the text, click on the taskbar Icon for dreamweaver, paste the text, edit it until it is just right, click on the IE Icon on the taskbar, click on the preview of the particular tab where my localhost is displayed and click refresh.

Use Alt+Tab. Or at least Ctrl+click on IE icon to activate the last active IE tab and not go through the extra step of picking the right tab each time.

> The extra clicks and steps to do what I want. Want to run putty? ARE YOU SURE??? Okay then you can run it… also note what I said on day five with regards to the extra clicks…

It sounds like you’ve downloaded the plain PuTTY binary directly (i.e. putty.exe) rather than the installer. When you do that, IE (and Firefox) will set a metadata bit on the executable that marks it as coming from the network, and thus “unsafe” – which means that Windows will then ask you if you REALLY want to run it each time you try. This is mostly just a security feature to prevent people blindly downloading .exe files and running them with a single click. OS X has a very similar feature, from what I heard.

Changing this is trivial – next time you run the .exe and it asks you if you really want to run it, note that there’s a checkbox in that dialog, “Always ask before opening this file” – uncheck it and it will reset the metadata flag, and stop bothering you.