You can use these key combos, or you can use Windows-Tab and then select the desktop of choice interactively as shown in the screenshot above. Windows-Ctrl-Left/Right Arrow: Switch between desktops.
Windows-Tab: Bring up the Task View which includes a new Add Desktop option this view also shows you all of your open desktops on the bottom.
WINDOWS FOR MAC SWITCH DESKTOP WINDOWS 10
Hopefully they'll also add support for touch or mouse pad gestures so that you can swipe to new desktops as you can on OSx, but currently I don't see support for that (touch pad vendors would have to provide the gesture mapping support I suppose – then again given how crappy most Windows machine touch pads are maybe that's not such a good idea – my Dell XPS touch is the worst piece of crap I've ever used, amazing that manufacturers can't get such a simple device right).Īnyway, in Windows 10 you can use a number of shortcut keys to manipulate and manage multiple desktops: Windows 10 officially adds multiple desktops as a feature as part of a host of new desktop manager features that can be managed through the Windows UI as well as with convenient hotkeys. Windows 10 – Official Multiple Desktop SupportĮven better though is that Windows 10 will native support for multiple desktops. However there are a number of utilities out there that you can use to take advantage of multiple desktops – in a limited fashion today.
Multiple desktop support actually harks back all the way to Windows XP, but the operating system didn't officially expose this functionality. I've since switched back to Windows and I have to plead ignorance: I didn't know that Windows has had support for multiple desktops for some time.
It's been especially useful when running parallels which you can set up in such a way that it runs the Windows instance on a separate desktop which is convenient. I spent the last month and a half using a Mac and OSx, running both OSx and Windows and while doing that one thing I really appreciated was the use of multiple desktops that OSx supports.
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