With it, you group your open windows into one of a half-dozen pre-built screen layouts, such as having two apps side by side, each taking up half the screen. If you’re the kind of person who likes their apps arranged on the desktop just so, you’ll likely be interested in Snap Layouts. To create a new one, click the New desktop button. To close one, hover your mouse over its icon. Hover your mouse over the Task View icon in the taskbar and you’ll see thumbnails of all of your virtual desktops. There’s also a quicker way to switch to switch to a virtual desktop (or create or close one) without activating Task View.
To close a virtual desktop, hover your mouse over it in Task View and click the X on its upper right. You can keep creating new desktops this way and switch among them. To switch between desktops, click the Task View icon and click the desktop to which you want to switch. The bottom of the screen shows all your virtual desktops, and the main area shows the apps running in the current desktop. To create a new desktop, activate Task View and click New desktop at the bottom of the screen. You can run a different set of apps inside each virtual desktop - for instance, you could dedicate one desktop to work-related apps, and another desktop to entertainment-related apps. Press the Esc key to leave Task View and return to where you were.Īt the bottom of the screen, you’ll see thumbnails of any virtual desktops you’ve created, along with a “New desktop” button. For those used to using the old Alt + Tab key combination to cycle through open apps and applications, you can still do that as well. If you hover your mouse over any thumbnail, an X appears in its upper-right corner. Click any thumbnail to switch to that app. At the top of the screen you see your currently running apps and applications arrayed against a fuzzy version of the desktop so you can quickly see what you’ve got running.
(Note that Task View no longer includes Windows 10’s Timeline feature that displayed snapshots of the files you worked on recently.) When you do, Task View springs into action. To activate Task View, click its icon (two overlapping squares) in the taskbar just to the right of the Search button, or press the Windows key + Tab.
In Windows 11, Microsoft redesigned its Task View feature for creating multiple virtual desktops, and it’s now more useful than ever.
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