virtuawin ...

... is much better than desktops. Thanks to sysinternals anyways though, they have been helpful.

With virtuawin you can:
do most things that desktops can do plus
change background for different desktops (plugin required).
have up to 20 desktops
use your tablet in different desktops.
the winkey+[r,d,e] shortcuts work.
it's much quicker.

On a positive note though, desktops is much smaller of a program.