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If you want to keep your work free from the games you play after hours or just keep what you’re doing on Windows compartmentalized, one of the things you can do is create new virtual desktops. Virtual desktops seal off groups of apps making them easier to manage. Here’s how to create a new virtual desktop.

What to do:

• To create a new virtual desktop, click on the two overlapping grey boxes on the Taskbar and click on New desktop. Or use the keyboard shortcut Win + Ctrl + D. The new desktop will be empty, but the programs and windows you had open will still be open in your previous desktop.
• You can rename your desktops by clicking on the desktop name in the top of the window in Desktop view in the Taskbar.
• To switch between desktops simply click Win + Tab to show all open desktops and click which you want to enter.

How to show windows across multiple virtual desktops

By default, any windows you have open in one desktop won’t be available in another. You can, however, make Windows appear across multiple virtual desktops. Here’s how to do that.

What to do:

• Open the desktops view from the Taskbar (grey squares) and right click on the Window you want to see across multiple desktops.
• Select Show this window on all desktops to have the window appear across multiple desktops.

And that’s it. You can now look in your other virtual desktops and find the window you selected in that desktop too.

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