Vista provides developers with the new DWM based aero interface. A new set of thumbnail API's can be used to access some of this new technology. This virtual desktop program takes advantage of this new API and uses some tricks of its own to provide a powerful virtual desktop manager with a full screen thumbnail based preview. You can have as many desktops as you want and can seamlessly switch between them.

But wait! What if you still are using XP? Don't worry, Vista/XP Virtual Desktops provides support for XP as well, although window previews are not live since XP doesn't have DWM.

New features include:

• A new mini-toolbar for a lean, unobtrusive way to switch desktops using the mouse (configurable)
• Set programs to be minimized before being hidden; this is needed for popular Adobe CS3 programs like Photoshop and Illustrator
• Automatically check for updates (configurable)
• Huge performance improvements (more multi-threading, etc.)
• Automatically sets itself as high-priority for even more performance (and because it usually sits idle, this should have no negative effect on your system)
• Many bug fixes