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I have written before about using Parallels on my MacBookPro to run Windows XP. Installing Parallels Tools made the experience even better, allowing movement between the two operating systems almost seemlessly. The one thing I have been missing is a way to run XP full screen and easily move back and forth between OS X and XP.

The forthcoming “Spaces” feature that will be part of Leopard looks promising, but I need something now, not in the Spring of 2007. So, I installed VirtueDesktops, which creates virtual desktops, allowing you to open groups of applications on seperate desktops. In a sense, it is very similar to what Spaces will be, sans the ability to drag applications from one desktop to another.

So, what I do now is switch to one of my desktops and fireup Parallels and Windows XP. Once I login, I push it to fullscreen. I can then use my Virtue trigger keys to fast-switch between XP and OS X. This makes it a whole lot easier to move between operating systems without having to exit the fullscreen mode of Parallels then minimizing it to get to my OS X desktop.

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