I can say that my machine works the same way either with or without Dexpot , so I consider that it doesn’t affect performance much. I have AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.84 GHz, 1.75 GB of RAM that is pretty old computer with installed Windows XP. Also I run it on my helper laptop Intel Pentium III 866Mhz 512 MB of RAM. It seems ‘t this one is even from the last century) Everything works fine, but I extremely miss RAM on the laptop.

Actually Dexpot is a very well written app. The development team did a great job. I found only one apparent bug in the settings window while assigning Hotkeys under Controls tab (Dexpot 1.4). But this bug is very easy to avoid. It has some specific little flaws but all in all it works great. Also it’s absolutely free.

I needed time to get used to it and to set it up for my own preferences. For example it looked very frustrated for me when default hotkey settings of switching between desktops were placed in a row like Alt + 1,2,3,4, while a bird’s-eye view represents virtual desktops as quad. I’ve set up these combinations as Alt + A, S, Z, X to represent the actual places of the desktops as in a bird’s-eye view.

This is one more reason for me to switch to a Mac. It has all these features built in its flawless OS X.

The theme shown in the screenshot can be found here (at the time I was trying to decide between that and this.)

The graphs on the top right are part of “Notebook Hardware Control”. The developer’s website isn’t resolving atm, but you can still download the program from softpedia. I use that along with RMClock to tweak/monitor my laptop.

That little monster is actually a cat from an anime called Lucky Star. :)

Wow, your desktop looks just like a mac, lol. It’s pretty spiffy. Ya, multiple virtual desktops is something I miss from gnome/kde. I didn’t realize they had that for windows. Wonder how it affects performance…

Right now and quit for a long time I’m using Zune theme from M$. Your theme I’m willing to try too.

You can see screenshots of my desktop here

I was experiencing the same problem: my desktop/Harddrive/docs/music/almost everything was just a big mess/chaos/clutter.
But later I’ve decided to challenge that problem and found time to solve it permanently. So I took some GTD concepts, found right software tools to work with and developed whole brand new system to work/sort/structure all incoming info/software/data/whatever.
There are many things to tell but the key concept of the system is to have an Inbox folder, where all incoming data is collected then sorted. The main rule is to clean the InBox folder on the right side of my screenshots quit often like the GTD rule (don’t allow new email messages in your inbox move beyond the visible part of the screen). From the screenshots you can see that right now I’m searching how to edit userChrome.css. Right after I’ll finish this task I’ll clean right InBox by placing all of the collected info into the previously carefully defined places. This way I’m always having a clean desktop and no mess on my computer HD.

By the way the dock I’m using at the bottom of the screen is ObjectDock and I’m stick to it for more then 6 months, and it’s so comfortable to use that I’m not planning to return back to taskbar. Furthermore I’m planning to by a Mac)

Also I’m using Dexpot software program for working with multiple virtual desktops.
For example right now I’m having 20 opened windows. And I can’t even imagine how it’s possible to work with one available desktop while popping windows up from the taskbar that is messed with the tabs of these windows.

Ok, that’s enough, just sharing my experience.

Thanks,
Sam

TextPad on Windows - small, and free … I like the 4.x interface over the 5.x one (that I looked at briefly).

Vi on the Mac / Linux though. :P