everything the way it was. This has two practical advantages. Say you have a nicely ordered screen of apps: a spreadsheet in one corner, email in another, with a PowerPoint document taking up the other half. Suddenly, you remember that you need to cull some client feedback from an email thread. Yes, you could rearrange those apps again—or you could open Outlook on a new virtual desktop using the Win+Ctrl+D command. (You can also click the Task View icon and the + icon in the lower right corner to create a new virtual desktop.)
Task view also allows you to multitask more efficiently. Take a typical Sunday night: the weekend’s winding down, you’re not quite ready to give up Facebook and Amazon, but there’s work to be done. By creating a separate virtual desktop with Task View, you can create a separate work and entertainment space, and then flip back and forth between them using Ctrl+Win+left arrow or Ctrl+Win+right arrow. That’s the key to making Task View work: the Ctrl+Win key flip. With a second monitor, you glance left or right. With a virtual desktop, the screen moves—not your head. You can flip back and forth quickly and efficiently. Unfortunately, there are a few quirks. For one thing, if you have two monitors, both monitors flip to a new desktop with the Ctrl+Win key comman —even if you don’t have a virtual desktop set up—which means you end up with a blank screen. That’s annoying. There’s also a “hard stop” at the end of the row of virtual desktops—if you keep tapping Ctrl+Win+left arrow, for example, you won’t wrap around to the beginning.
If you choose to hide apps
that aren’t being used on
the virtual desktop, you
can sometimes forget and
“lose” them.
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