Do you know you can have Virtual Desktops (like in Linux) with

If you have powertoys installed on Windows XP Its available for free at
Microsoft website, visit my downloads webpage address) It is very easy to
enable Microsoft Virtual Desktop Feature. Simply right click on the Start
Panel Bar also called TaskBar, Click on Tool Bar and select Desktop
manager. You would see a set of 5 icons placed on the right portion of the
TAskBar. Click on number 1 to 4 to go to any of the desktops. Now you have
have four different Active Desktops.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You may see a little degradation in performance but for
desktop work it is negligible.