- The Desktops feature lets you manage
multiple separate workspaces,
which can help you get organized when you have a lot
of applications open.
I have so many windows open here,
it's really hard to move around between them.
So I'll use the Desktops feature,
which is one of the system tools in the task bar.
When I click on that, one immediate benefit is
that you can see all of your windows that are open
and they're all tiled out on the screen.
And then you can click on one of them
and it makes that the active application.
It moves to the top of the stack so you can focus on it.
So on one hand, you could just use the Desktops feature
as a quick way to jump between applications
that you have open.
But of course there's more to it than that.
So let's go back to the Desktops view.
And I want to look down here at the bottom
where you can see, I have one desktop workspace
and the option to create another new desktop.
So let's do that.
I'll click this button to make a new desktop.
So now I have a second one.
And I want you to see, when you point
at one of these desktops, and I'm not clicking on it,
I'm just hovering my mouse over it.
But when you point at one of them,
you can see all of the windows that are on that workspace.
And if I just point at desktop two,
you can see there are no windows on that workspace yet.
And you might see where this is going.
I'm going to point at desktop one,
again, I'm not clicking on it, just pointing at it.
And then I can drag a window from desktop one
to desktop two.
And in this way I can get more organized.
So I can move all of the tasks that I want to focus on
for desktop two, over here.
And if I go back to desktop one,
another option is to just drag a window down to this place
that says New Desktop.
And when I drop it there, it's created a third desktop.
So let's go back to desktop one,
and I'm going to drag one more window
from desktop one over to desktop three.
So now I have these three separate desktops
for different tasks.
And I can click on one of the desktops and just focus
on the applications that I have here.
And when I want to go to another desktop?
I can click on that button in the task bar,
then choose the desktop that I want, and it switches over.
Or you can just point and not click,
but just point at the desktop icon in the task bar.
And then it gives you this little preview
where you can choose the desktop that you want,
and switch right over to it.
There's also a keyboard command
to jump between these workspaces.
You can hold the control key
and the windows key on your keyboard.
And while you're holding those,
tap the left or right arrow keys
to quickly jump between those desktops.
So from here later, if you want to move windows
from one desktop to another, you can.
Or if you want to close one of these desktops,
just go back to the Desktops button,
and you can point at one of these desktops
and you'll see there is an X over it
when you're pointing your mouse cursor at it.
When you click on that X,
it closes that desktop and moves all of the windows
from that workspace over to the workspace next to it.
So let's do that one more time.
I'm going to close this other desktop,
which leaves me with one remaining desktop
with all of my windows.
And we're basically back where we started.
So if you're working on separate unrelated tasks,
or if you just have way too many application windows open?
You can get more organized with separate desktop workspaces.