Drag and release the window on an alternate desktop.

Source: Windows Central

Right-click menu method

Click the Task View button in your taskbar.

• You can also use the Windows key + Tab shortcut on your keyboard, or you can swipe with one finger from the left of your touchscreen.

Right-click on the window you’d like to move to another desktop.

Source: Windows Central

Click the desktop to which you’d like to move the window.

Source: Windows Central

You can move windows back and forth between desktops to your heart’s content.

How to duplicate windows across virtual desktops

Certain windows or collections of windows from one app can be duplicated across all virtual desktops.

Click the Task View button in your taskbar.

• You can also use the Windows key + Tab shortcut on your keyboard, or you can swipe with one finger from the left of your touchscreen.

Right-click an active window.

Source: Windows Central

Click Show windows from this app on all desktops to duplicate all windows from one app.

Source: Windows Central

How to remove a virtual desktop in Windows 10

Want to get back to just one desktop? No problem.

Click the Task View button in your taskbar.

• You can also use the Windows key + Tab shortcut on your keyboard, or you can swipe with one finger from the left of your touchscreen.

Click the X in the top-right corner of the desktop icon.

Source: Windows Central

Open and running windows in a desktop you close will be moved back to your original desktop. You can also use the Ctrl + Windows key + F4 keyboard shortcut to immediately close the virtual desktop you’re currently viewing.

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Windows 10 lets you create multiple desktops and switch between them with a couple of clicks. This way, you can work on several different projects at once without feeling cluttered or mixing windows and apps of unrelated activities.

Not only can you switch among different desktops, but you can also easily move open windows from one desktop to the other.

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How to switch desktops in Windows 10

1. Click the «Task View» button in the taskbar. You can also press the Windows key + «Tab» on your keyboard.

2. Click the Task View button to see your desktops, open programs, and history of programs you’ve recently used.

3. At the top of the screen, you will see all your current virtual desktops. Hover your cursor over a desktop to see the programs and tabs currently open in that window.

4. Click the desktop you want to switch to, or click «New Desktop» to open a new, blank virtual desktop. The virtual desktops appear at the top of the screen, above the history of programs you’ve used.

5. Below the desktops, you can see a history of all the programs and windows you have used. As you scroll down the list, you go further into the past. You can re-open a window just by clicking it.

6. Also, you can quickly switch between desktops without going into «Task View» by pressing «CTRL» + the Windows key + the right arrow key or «CTRL» + Windows key + left arrow key on your keyboard.

How to move a window from one desktop to another in Windows 10

If you are using a window on one desktop but would like it to be in a different desktop, you can easily transfer it.

1. Click the «Task View» icon in the taskbar. You can also press the Windows key + «Tab» on your keyboard.

2. Hover your cursor over the desktop. When you see the window you want to move, click and drag the window to the other desktop and release it. You’ve now moved it between desktops.

You can drag windows between desktops to re-organize which windows share a desktop.

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Switch Between Virtual Desktops in Windows 10

How to Switch Between Virtual Desktop in Windows 10

Windows 10 comes with a useful feature called Task View. It allows having virtual desktops, which the user can use to organize apps and open windows. It is possible to move windows between virtual desktops to arrange them in a useful way. In this post, we will review two methods you can use to switch between your virtual desktops in Windows 10.

Windows 10 includes the virtual desktops feature, also known as Task View. For users of Mac OS X or Linux, this feature is not spectacular or exciting, but for casual PC users who have used Windows only since eternity, it is a step forward. The ability to have multiple desktops exists in Windows since Windows 2000 at the API level. Several third party apps have used those APIs to provide virtual desktops, but Windows 10 has made this feature available out-of-the-box in a useful way.

Finally, Windows 10 has received an option to rename a virtual desktop.

Starting in Windows 10 build 18963. Prior to this update, virtual desktops were simply named «Desktop 1», «Desktop 2», and so on. Finally, you can give them meaningful names like «Office», «Browsers», etc. See

You can switch between virtual desktops using the Task View user interface or with a global keyboard shortcut (hotkey). Let’s review these methods.

To Switch Between Virtual Desktops in Windows 10,

1. Click on the Task View button in the taskbar.
2. Alternatively, press Win + Tab to open the Task View.
3. Create a new virtual desktop if required.
4. In the Task View, hover over the virtual desktop thumbnail preview you want to switch to. You will see a preview of that desktop.
5. Click on the thumbnail preview to switch to the virtual desktop.

Also, you can switch to another virtual desktop with a hotkey.

To Switch The Active Virtual Desktop with a Keyboard Shortcut,

1. Press Win + Ctrl + → to switch to the next virtual desktop at the right.
2. Press Win + Ctrl + ← to switch to the previous virtual desktop at the left.
3. The current virtual desktop will be changed to another available virtual desktop.

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Desktops v2.0

By Mark Russinovich

Published: October 17, 2012

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Introduction

Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you’re not using. After you configure hotkeys for switching desktops, you can create and switch desktops either by clicking on the tray icon to open a desktop preview and switching window, or by using the hotkeys.

Using Desktops

Unlike other virtual desktop utilities that implement their desktops by showing the windows that are active on a desktop and hiding the rest, Sysinternals Desktops uses a Windows desktop object for each desktop. Application windows are bound to a desktop object when they are created, so Windows maintains the connection between windows and desktops and knows which ones to show when you switch a desktop. That making Sysinternals Desktops very lightweight and free from bugs that the other approach is prone to where their view of active windows becomes inconsistent with the visible windows.

Desktops reliance on Windows desktop objects means that it cannot provide some of the functionality of other virtual desktop utilities, however. For example, Windows doesn’t provide a way to move a window from one desktop object to another, and because a separate Explorer process must run on each desktop to provide a taskbar and start menu, most tray applications are only visible on the first desktop. Further, there is no way to delete a desktop object, so Desktops does not provide a way to close a desktop, because that would result in orphaned windows and processes. The recommended way to exit Desktops is therefore to logoff.

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Configuration Dialog

Tray Desktop Switch Window

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Runs on:

• Client: Windows Vista and higher.
• Server: Windows Server 2008 and higher.

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