How-To: Manage your cramped desktops [Windows]

As the number of standard high resolution monitors increases [1920 x 1200 pixels anyone?], the process of successfully managing cramped desktop environments is becoming a thing of the past. By miniscule, I’m referring to the 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 resolution workspaces.

If, like me, you find yourself working on a low resolution screen (1024 x 768), you have probably accustomed yourself to utilizing keyboard shortcuts for jumping between the dozens of windows and applications you may have opened on your desktop. There are a handful of methods for overcoming the unproductive moues-navigation-restriction. Everyone knows that the fractions of seconds saved by utilizing keyboard shortcuts adds up.

Desktop shortcuts are no longer accesible if your workflow requires that mutliple windows be open at all times. The quickest way to access your most used folders or applications is to utilize a custom toolbar from the Windows taskbar. Here’s my latest setup.

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