How to Use the Windows 11 Multiple Desktop Feature!

One of the new features in Microsoft Windows 11 is the Multiple Desktop feature, wherein you have the option to spread your windows across multiple desktops like having multiple virtual desktops or monitors.

In this video, we talk about organizing and managing Multiple Workspaces. We show you how to add additional Desktops and how to navigate between them. We teach you how to rename your workspaces and how to move application windows from one workspace to another.

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[NurComments]

really dumb that this doesn't let you put different icons on different desktops, as everybody who hears of this immediately expects.

[robertholt]

When I first heard about the multiple desktop feature, I was expecting a second desktop that would be completely different from my original desktop. The second desktop would be a clean slate and I could put only certain icons on it and not have my original desktop be as cluttered. Instead, all I got was an exact copy of my original desktop. Any changes I made with the second desktop would also happen with my original desktop so I couldn't make any changes. I thought that maybe my particular computer had a malfunction with the multiple desktop feature but no, the multiple desktop feature was working as designed and that's the problem. On the original desktop, I can bring everything up and reduce what I'm not using. Then I can hover over the taskbar and easily switch to the different applications that show. I don't really need multiple desktops. Having each new desktop only with their own set of icons would be useful, fun and help with keeping things organized. Hopefully, this can be the case after future updates.

[ForSynthsSake]

The biggest missing feature is the lack of ability to have shortcuts on different desktops. I can use the taskbar to get the focus of any app window I want that is minimised.

[NicoandLuis]

I think the name is misleading. It's not multiple desktops. It's literally the same desktop. I has the same icons there.
You could at best call it multiple workspaces.

[hingginchu]

True multiple desktops come with their individual set of desktop shortcuts. That will help with organization immensely. Windows 11 has a lot of good ideas but also many serious inconveniences. Also, the multiple desktop function is very laggy currently.

[cremedelamemesupreme]

I feel like there was some Microsoft engineer meeting where the boss demanded they add something else to Windows 11 that could be easily mentioned as a bullet point under "Features" and they were all ready to end the day so they came up with this stupid idea just to go home.

[iamfemo]

Thanks for the video. Is it possible to keep different icons in different desktops? It appears when i close the apps and open them again from a different desktop, it wouldn't automatically open in the previous desktop. If i was able to keep the icon, in that desktop, then i would only click on it in that desktop, if you get what i mean?

[ChandravijayAgrawal]

I had this feature right infront of me for years, I kept finding it many times, today i searched and its right there, Microsoft had hidden it very well

[FPChris]

MS needs to make separate desktop folders. When you switch make it like you moved to another computer with shared access to C drive

[UnwellGaming]

is there a way so u can save the layout of 1 desktop and open it again at a later time and have it auto launch them windows to where they were originally?

[briannicusrex]

How do you make multiple desktops? not just multiple copies of the same desktop. I want a desktop for games that is completely separate from a desktop used for zoom meetings, for instance. I want to chose which shortcuts are on each desktop, not just change the background.

[nameh]

I thought you can use one app in a multiple desktops you created but I'm wrong. What they did is a pain in the ass😂 they just made it more complicated than pressing alt tab lol

[enchantedrockview]

It seems you can’t have customized taskbars for each desktop? For example, just office apps pinned to “Office desktop” and then browsers pinned only to “Browsers desktop”.

[WildpawShecat]

biggest annoyance is when connecting another monitor/display, when you switch desktop on one monitor it does the same on the other monitor, extremely annoying for workflow. I want the desktop with photoshop to STAY on my second display even when i switch on the main screen

[VanouReal]

Ik that I'm a little late, but I got a question, is it good to use double desktops for the live, bc I don't have multiple computers and I would like to open things without appearing on the stream, so can you guys telle if it's good or no?

[geepeeone]

Can you assign which monitor each desktop maximizes to?

[afzaal]

I need different desktop shortcuts on each window, which is not available.

[sridhartn]

Thanks for showing this, has helped me with working on multiple workspaces/desktops, coming from KDE, seemed KDE implemented it much better than Windows. Thanks though.

[GunaseelanArun]

Can we open multiple instances of same MS app in different desktops?
Let's say MS excel in Desktop 1 and Dekstop 2?

[idan]

Hi,

While i creating new desktop, the new desktop is already full with all the apps i having on my current desktop, how do i fix this so the new desktop will be completly empty?