Posted on 04/16/2015 3:27:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft’s virtual desktops are one of the of the more unique features of Windows 10—a quick way to organize “screens” of apps that you can switch to back and forth. Rearranging them has always been a pain, but a new drag-and-drop feature, hopefully that problem will go away.
Microsoft said it's expedited the ability to drag and drop windows between virtual desktops, eliminating the clunky keyboard shortcuts that Windows 10 currently forces one to use.
Why this matters: Virtual desktops are handy tools for those with just a single monitor. If you have more than one monitor, you might have a chat app snapped alongside email and Twitter, while your main screen is devoted to a Web browser or presentation software. Moving from one monitor to the other is as easy as sliding your mouse. On a single monitor, a virtual desktop lets you quickly replace the chat/email/Twitter screen with the Web browser, without losing your place, by tapping WIN + CTRL + either the left or right arrow to shift between desktops.
How Microsoft's made it better Once you have those virtual desktops set, adjusting them has been a royal pain—until now. To shift an app between desktops, you previously had to right-click it and manually select the virtual desktop—and if you had a bunch of them, you had to remember which one it was. Now, all you’ll need to do is open the “task view” button using WIN + TAB, then either drag and drop a window over the “New desktop” button to create a new desktop, or drag it onto an existing virtual desktop—exactly as you’d expect to.
If those virtual desktop icons are just too small to see, you’ll be able to hover over them to get an expanded view.
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For LINUX Users, this is familiar.
Virtual desktops is a feature that has been in use for several years on numerous Linux distributions. Inside of Windows, the feature has been available through various add-ons and programs, but it has never been a widely used feature, and it has never been built straight into Windows and available right after installation.
That changes with Windows 10.
I just found out today that if you accidentally close a tab in IE, CTRL+Shift+t will bring it back.
And for those die hard Apple users, this should also be familiar.
Apple’s OS X operating system has offered something akin to Virtual Desktops for years. In its early years the feature was called Expose’. Recently Apple renamed it to Mission Control.
Windows 10’s Virtual Desktops allow power users to see every Windows Store app or Desktop program they have open at any given time. A dedicated button for the screen that allows users to switch between the Virtual Desktops, which Microsoft calls Task View, is located on the Taskbar of the Desktop just beside the Cortana personal assistant.
Don’t you just love it when you are typing and get too close to the touch pad and the system deletes the page you are on and dumps you into a page you never saw before and you realize all hope is gone.
Tech geek here.
XP duo-core 32bit with 4gb RAM
Win7 dual 64bit with 4gb RAM
Win8.1 dual 64bit with 4gb RAM
MacOSX on a G4
Using Linux Mint “Cinammon” 17.1.
THE best OS I have ever used. And it is faster using less hardware as the windoze compubers I have. i.e. this linux box has ONE 64bit Athlon with 4gb RAM and does circles around all the windoze.
I just tried it in FireFox, and it works there too.
“For LINUX Users, this is familiar.”
For real Unix users, this has been around for 20+ years (if not longer). Nice job keeping up with the Jones, Micro$oft...
If you forget the shortcut, you can also right click on a tab and choose the Undo Close Tab or Reopen Closed Tab option in Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Windooze gives me a popup message to update to 8.1 so I click on it and it can not find the “app store”.
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