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Around 30 but please don't make me count how many groups and icons I have in my Start menu. And what did Microsoft do in Windows 11? Removed grouping in Start menu 
Mircea
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I have a folder of short cuts that I put on my taskbar. It is like a mini start menu for my top 9 apps.
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charlieg wrote: for those of you who use multiple desktops, how many?
I tried multiple desktops and found it utterly confusing as to what stuff was where. Navigating with Win/Shift Tab kept cramping my fingers. Moving stuff between desktops, can't even remember the keyboard/mouse gymnastics to do that.
The idea is cool, the implementation sucks. Hence I have a laptop workstation with three monitors and a second laptop also with three monitors. (Both counting the laptop's monitor.)
I find it a lot easier to control 6 monitors as "desktops" across two computers from one mouse and keyboard using Synergy than all that gawdawful mouse, keyboard and wand waving. Desktopum-Appearum!
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It's not like Microsoft's version has been around since 2006[^] or anything. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You know, it was so long ago when I went out and bought that other s/w. Maybe I just didn't see the reference.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: As an aside to my rant, for those of you who use multiple desktops, how many? I'm up to 6.
I'm up to 1. I don't have the mental agility to switch contexts so quickly that having multiple desktops would help.
I recently enabled multiple desktops for the first time on my machine at home, as I was debugging an issue possibly related to the feature. I hated the Windows 11 implementation. Windows only displays the desktop name while you're switching. It's not intuitive at all how you can specify individual wallpapers for each desktop, which seems an easy workaround for the problem.
Fortunately multiple desktops was not part of the problem, and I could turn the thing back off.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I was not aware of that particular key combination.
I currently have 2 desktop sessions opened. Ctrl-Win-Right brings me from my current (#1) to #2. Since there's only 2, Ctrl-Win-Right does nothing (as opposed to wrapping back to the first, which I agree might get confusing). How many of these do you have opened at once anyway?
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charlieg wrote: As an aside to my rant, for those of you who use multiple desktops, how many? I'm up to 6.
I only use 3 desktops, but that's across 6 monitors. 
Also, surely the purpose of multiple desktops is to organise apps, so I have development, support and communication desktops and can usually tell from a glance at the primary taskbar where I am - Outlook open = communication, Visual Studio open = development, RDCMAN open = support!
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I've read all of the Dilbert comic series.
Yes, the entire collection from April 16, 1989 thru today.
I'm reading through a new comic called Brewster Rockit & this one strikes me as the definitive one to explain the series:
Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for February 14, 2005 - GoComics[^]
It's an interesting comic I've never read before. Great for sci-fi & fantasy nerds like me -- it parodies The Hobbit, Star Trek & many others.
Have you read it?
Edit / Update
This one cracks me up, because it is how the Same Message (or same information) impacts different people. Each person hears something slightly different. Cracks. Me. Up!
it's just like an IT Meeting.
Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for March 05, 2005 - GoComics[^]
modified 14-Mar-22 16:15pm.
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Not seen it before, but yesterday's is a classic.
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Argh! My Spleen!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Argh! My Spleen!
I see that you're a seasoned Sailor on the Brewster Rockit!
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I'm working my way from the start - I'm only up to August 2007 so far (lack of time, alas)
Did you ever see Schlock Mercenary[^] ?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I've never seen that, but I just read that first one & it's funny.
Will read more -- as long as work doesn't get in the way. 
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Having six daughters, I have encouraged all of them that there is nothing wrong with asking the boyfriend for his credit score. At 16, they thought I was full of ****. At 25 they give me long stares. Yet I believe in marrying for love. but money is second to what kills all marriages.
Youngest daughter mentioned this to her mom (I overheard). I coughed "bull....". I'm not included in any more conversations - sort of.
Now, maybe I'm old school, and I am *certainly* an old fart. But I've been married.... sorry had to pull up the calculator ... 43+ years. If you (pick a side) aren't willing to go all in, keep the ring or reject it.
I'll follow the series....
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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for the record, you are a cruel, mean little man 
honestly, everybody is dying around me, I'm trying to outlast them.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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No, no, no. i wasn't trying to be mean. I enjoyed the Oldbot ones too...because I'm an oldster too now.  I was saying "as a fellow oldster..."
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lol, now you tell me! no offense taken.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Let me guess, you also had 3 female cats, 2 female dogs, and some goldfish that were probably all female, too.
There is a Blue Colar Comedy line about this.
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Any Len Deighton lovers out there? I must admit I have a penchant for these cold-war spy stories. Just started watching the new TV series The Ipcress File (2022, ITV). It is starting out really good. Any opinions?
SS-GB was not bad, but not very strong either, IMHO.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Besides Deighton, I'd recommend Nelson DeMille's The Charm School[^]. He has a sense of humour, much like Mick Herron's Slough House series. Also Desmond Bagley's Running Blind[^], which I read after watching the TV adaptation. If you type "cold war spy thrillers" into Amazon's search bar, you'll have hours of sifting ahead of you.
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