Play with Windows XP desktop tips

There are a lot of tricks that you want to play on your Windows desktop. This article presents you with tips for 10 windows desktops.

Have multiple desktops

Are you envious of the senior player with a dual-head display card? In fact, if you are using the GPU core NVIDIA display card, then you can enjoy the fun of multiple desktop display, and the number of desktops is not two, is 32! These desktops can switch between each other, and they can send messages between different desktops-the following is the implementation method.

STEP1 First make sure you have the privileges of the system administrator, then open Control Panel, double-click NVIDIA Nview Desktop Manager, and a dialog box like the one shown in Figure 1, which simulates the display of multiple desktops is done in this dialog box, and now click the wizard button (note that if the wizard button is not available, you can activate it by checking the Enable Nview Desktop Manager check box and clicking the Apply button.

STEP2 This wizard has 11 pages, the operation of these pages is very intuitive, there is no more to say. In addition to defining multiple desktop applications, you can also set whether the application's windows are transparent when moving, and can set transparency--a very cool! effect. Here to remind you, although you can set up to 32 desktop, but even if your computer has the strongest configuration, you should control the number of desktops below 4, otherwise the system resources will not make ends meet.

STEP3 complete the configuration, you may have noticed that your Windows has quietly changed. For example, when you right-click on the desktop or view the application's System menu, the menu shown in Figure 2 appears, and the switch to the desktop is done in this menu. If you think this is too much trouble to switch desktops, you can use hotkeys-define hotkeys in the "Hot Key" tab of the dialog box shown in Figure 3 (Figure 3).

Figure 2

Figure 3

Tip: In fact, the menu shown in Figure 2 can also perform many other functions other than desktop switching, such as sending windows between different desktops, and so on. In addition, different versions of NVIDIA display card drivers may have different settings interface, so the above content is only as a reference. Finally, the completion of multiple desktop configuration, you may be required to install IE6, but according to the author's experience, IE5.5 also apply.