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How to manage Virtual desktop in Windows 10
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Windows 10Virtual desktop allows you to expand your desktop, organize groups oftasks, and switch between them.
How can I manage the Virtual desktop in Windows 10?
First of all, if you want to access the Virtual Desktop, you need to click on the Task View button (the old Timeline View). You can also use theWindows key + Tabto do that.
After pressing it, you will see the timeline of yourtasksin the lower part. In the upper part, you will see the button for adding a new desktop. Also, if you click on the text above the desktop representation, you will be able to rename it.
Of course, if you hover with your cursor over a desktop you will also see an X button to delete that desktop. You can set them up and rename them how you please in order to organize your work better.
Closing applications before deleting the desktop
Be careful because if you delete a desktop before closing the applications in it, all of them will go automatically to the main desktop. So make sure you close any open applications from a desktop before closing it.
Moving applications within desktops
If you right-click on an application while you’re in the virtual desktop view, you will be able to move it to another virtual desktop, snap it on the left or right sides of the screen, show it lol all desktops or show windows from the app on all desktops.
Virtual desktop shortcuts
If you press theWindows key + Ctrl + Left or Right arrows, you will be able to move quickly between the virtual desktops.
Pressing theWindows key + Ctrl + Dyou will immediately create a newvirtual desktopwithout going through theTask View.
The classicAlt + Tabwill show you all the current applications opened individually. If you keep pressing Tab while you keep holding Alt, you will switch between them.
Virtual desktop settings
There are also two more settings that you can tweak.
Do you like usingVirtual desktop? What do you think about it? Let us know how you feel about it in the comments.
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Claudiu Andone
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Oldtimer in the tech and science press, Claudiu is focused on whatever comes new from Microsoft.
His abrupt interest in computers started when he saw the first Home Computer as a kid. However, his passion for Windows and everything related became obvious when he became a sys admin in a computer science high school.
With 14 years of experience in writing about everything there is to know about science and technology, Claudiu also likes rock music, chilling in the garden, and Star Wars. May the force be with you, always!
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Oldtimer in the tech and science press, with 14 years of experience in writing on everything there is to know about science, technology, and Microsoft
