![]() Just hover over each desktop preview and Windows will let you peek into any desktop to see what windows are open there. However, what if you’re trying to find that music player and you forgot which desktop you had it on? With hover preview it really is a breeze. The labels along with accurate previews make it easy to find what you want to switch to. Under that you will find the list of desktops you have open. However, task view also is able to filter this list when you create virtual desktops, so only the relevant windows appear. The top part of this view shows previews of the windows you have open, just like Alt Tab. Task view is also where you can go to switch between desktops. You may find the need to have more desktops…the possibilities are endless. I like to run my work email and Office apps on the first desktop and open my personal browsing on my second desktop. Just like how you can run as many application windows as you like, there’s also no limit to how many desktops you can create. To add a new desktop simply click the task view button on your taskbar and click the “new desktop” button. Keep you in control of the degree of separation between your grouped windows.Let you easily re-organize your groups and move windows as tasks evolve.Help you quickly locate and switch to any window or group of windows.Give you more desktop space to group related windows.Here are some high-level goals we identified: For those of you who like to organize your windows, we want to make sure that we offer the right experience to create and manage these groups. The same approaches also apply to open windows on a desktop. We see this regularly with the way people handle email and directory structures for files. For instance, we know that there are “filers” who like to separate things into subsets and then there are “pilers” who prefer to tackle tasks in a single group. When our team set out to build virtual desktops into Windows 10 we first took the time to understand how different people approach organization. Given the growing popularity of this organizational tool, we decided to build a native virtual desktop experience directly into Windows 10. Many other OSes and third-party utilities have also embraced the power of virtual desktops. Microsoft offered the Virtual Desktop Manager as part of the Windows XP PowerToys and a little while later released the Sysinternals Desktops add-on which enabled similar functionality. ![]() In fact, Xerox PARC created one of the earliest virtual desktop experiences called Rooms back in the 1980s and subsequently made a version available for Windows 3.x. Having desktops beyond the limitations of a physical display is a powerful way to organize and quickly access groups of windows. If someone wants to keep investigating, this will serve as a start.We know there’s a vocal set of people who just love virtual desktops. I'll guess that one of them is responsible for the visual refresh, and the main suspect is UIAnimation.dll! I've checked with procmon, and the dll's that are used in the process are: It's not enough to change it to the other virtual desktop key because some UI refresh is needed. The id of the current desktop is here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SessionInfo\1\VirtualDesktops\CurrentVirtualDesktop (I guess the session number will change if there is more than one logged in). In that location, there are all the open apps: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SessionInfo\1\ApplicationViewManagement There's a registry value that changes when the app is moved between desktops. This doesn't help that much, but that's what there is until someone develops something to make it easier. Choose Move to (or type M, because it's marked), and then the desktop you want (or N for new desktop, also marked).Use the right click keyboard button, or Shift F10 if you don't have that key in your keyboard. Right click on the window you want to move.The best way I came out with for now, to avoid using the mouse, is: ![]() I also looked for that option, and from the searches I've made (I think that I also saw it on the Microsoft forums), it's not something that is available built-in at the moment.
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