http://blogs.technet.com/b/drey/archive/2009/12/23/windows-7-wednesday-tip-desktops-exe.aspxmark russinovich and bryce cogswell published desktops v1.0 just over a year ago.&#160; i recently tested it on a non production windows 7 computer (my trusty netbook) and it worked well with a couple interesting exceptions: 1) the virtual desktops didnen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/drey/archive/2009/12/23/windows-7-wednesday-tip-desktops-exe.aspx#3302331Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:55:54 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3302331jerryham<p>I'm wondering if you read the documentation? The aero not being there is unfortunately by design since this is a full desktop (using windowStations and not like some other &quot;virtual desktop&quot; managers that simply use Window hiding functions. Unfortunately the design of Windows only allows Aero on one desktop. So the lack of Aero is the same on Vista and Windows 7. Also the &quot;no exit&quot; is by design. Since Windows doesn't provide any functions to move windows between windowStations the program can't let you exit since that would likely orphan some applications/windows that you would no longer be able to access.</p> <p>I'm not sure about the alt-tab, I would have thought that would work - but it has been about 6 months since I looked over the docs.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3302331" width="1" height="1">