I think it's a matter of how you work. What I'm doing now works great, but am open to finding better ways of doing things.

>I use SysInternals Desktops since I installed Windows 7 (a couple of months ago) before I was using a similar product for XP which I forgot the name, and the reason I use is that I can "categorize" my virtual desktops, as my tasks usually require that I have multiple windows open, so for me it is easier to switch desktops and have the windows there than to look into multiple minimized windows and guess what are they for, for example, now I have.
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>Desktop 1, developing:
>  Monitor 1: IE KVM (connected to a remote computer, where I have VFP)
>                  IE (testing our wc apps)
>                  SQL Server Management Studio
>  Monitor 2: VFP dev
>                  Firefox (regular browsing)
>                  RDP the same computer as the KVM, switch between one and the other for developing with the KVM and it's freaking double mouse is a PITA,
>                  and RDP kills the telephony card for the application, so I write code with RDP, and test it with KVM
>  either monitor can also have extra programs running, for example now I have snag it, outlook, calculator, a server monitor
>Desktop 2, troubleshooting one system we monitor:
>  Monitor 1: Toad for Oracle
>                   IE/Firefox running a monitor program we have, usually two windows and several tabs
>                   SSMS
>  Monitor 2: RDP to a computer in different network with HP-Open View with several screen of it's own
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>This makes me easy to switch between tasks, specially when sometimes I have more tasks so I even use Desktop 3 and 4