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Carol Haynes:
DM2 from http://dm2.sourceforge.net/ has multiple desktop support as well as a lot of nice additional features and plugins.

Edvard:
Hmm... Well, as much as I love PowerPro, I also love Virtual Desktop programs but I don't really like PP's virtual desktop support as there is no visual representation (also known as a Pager in *nix land...) which is why i'm also not into VirtuaWin. Below are the ones I have tested...

Wiki page about Virtual Desktops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop
Informative and has links to some shareware VD apps.

XDesk's Virtual Desktop Info page
http://www.xdesksoftware.com/vdesk.html
How nice of them to explain the topic as well as provide links to their competitors.
XDesk itself looks nice, and comes with an applauncher as well.

JS Pager (Free)
http://www.skinnables.org/archive.php?&current_dir=archive/jspager
The one I use. Stable, fast, configurable, and (unlike many skinnables) easily skinnable.

VERN (Shareware)
http://www.oneguycoding.com/vern/
LOTS of options. Almost too many (like my other favorite... :) ) but looking very promising. Even works across multiple monitors. Cool.

Semik's Desktop (Free & Open Source)
http://www.tomasek.cz/stary_soft/sdesk/
Stable, small and simple.

Desktop Manager (Free)
http://www3.nf.sympatico.ca/byronm/dm.html
Actually a Shell/Launcher/VirtualDesktop thingamabob that I found a bit confusing, but someone may like it...

Dexpot (Free)
http://www.dexpot.de/en/index2.html
Looks nice and full-featured while remaining small and easily configured.

Virtual Dimension (Free & Open Source)
http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/
Yet another... This one is nice in that it has visuals, but they are simply mini-icons in the pager windows rather than miniature representations of the windows on each desktop (the most common...) and you can switch to any window on any desk by hitting the icon.


Other Options...

MS has a Virtual Desktop Powertoy. Most alternative shells like Litestep, BlackBox 4 Windows, Geoshell, etc. have a Virtual Desktop plugin/module. PowerPro can manage quite a few desktops and access them with buttons, hotkeys, scripts, etc. There's a lot more to say, just Google for "virtual desktop" "virtual window", you get the idea.

m_s:
Thanks, Edvard: I will check out the links you provide.  I should say that I have just looked at Dexpot's current memory usage, and it's less than 4mb, so that's seeming very good right now.  It's highly configurable and does exactly what I want, so I might end up sticking with it - and I recommend others take a look also.  I tried VirtuaWin, but agree with Edvard's comment.

Edvard:
I had looked at Dexpot also, (I'll update my links in the previous post) looked very nice and promising but IIRC, it did not run on my system, I'll try it again, maybe I'm missing something...
I don't know about anybody else, but since using Linux, I have found virtual desktops to be essential.

mouser:
do i sense someone volunteering to do a full review of virtual desktop tools.. got some donated copies of virtual pc to give away in the mail today..

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