How to use Mmultiple Desktops in Windows-10

Multiple Desktops

Another function within Task View is for creating additional different desktops. This can be useful if you want to separate categories of tasks on your computer. For instance, you may want to keep your open entertainment apps on a different desktop to your productivity ones. To create additional desktops:

1. Click on the Task View button on the Taskbar

2. The current desktop is displayed with the open windows

Beware:

If you add too many desktops it may become confusing in terms of the content on each one.

3. Click on the New desktop button

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4. The new desktop is displayed at the bottom of the Task View window

5. Click on the new desktop to access it. Each desktop has the same background and shortcuts

Don't forget:

The default names of different desktops cannot be changed, i.e. they are Desktop 1, Desktop 2, etc.

6. Open apps on the new desktop. These will be separate from the apps on any other desktop

Hot tip:

To delete a desktop, click on the Task View button and click on the cross that appears when you hover your mouse over the desktop you want to remove.

7. Click on the Task View button to move between desktops