![]() Task View and Virtual Desktops In Windows 10 (Image Credit: Russell Smith) Files and Piles You lose the important ones in the pile and have to throw everything into the air to find them again. ![]() You can do this either by searching on the taskbar or using ALT-TAB. Once you switch to other windows, your snapped windows are still there somewhere. Usually, there are many more open at any one time. This works well if there are only two windows open on the desktop. Two windows can be quickly positioned, one on the left and one on the right. Consider a feature like Snap and now Snap Assist in Windows 10. The problems with Windows is that there are too many windows. Organize and Quickly Access Groups of Windows I had been creating one for emails, chats, Petri articles, personal tasks, etc. Instead of creating a virtual desktop for each group of tasks that have a result in the real world, it would be better to break down my understanding of tasks to groups of windows. In the end, it was not useful enough to warrant the effort involved. I have tried a few times to incorporate virtual desktops into my workflow but it always seemed to take too much effort to set up. This was a feature they had been requesting for years. Before that, you needed to either download a third-party application, use Microsoft’s own Virtual Desktop Manager PowerToy for XP, or use Windows Sysinternals Desktops. It has only recently been realized as a baked-in feature of Windows 10. Virtual desktop technology has been built into Windows since NT days. In this Ask the Admin, I will take a look at putting virtual desktops to use with a bit of help from Task View and Snap Assist.
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