Windows 10 - Multiple desktops!

There's a great feature of Windows 10 where you can have a second, third or more desktops. I wonder how many people are using it because I don't think it's such an obvious option. It could be very helpful, especially if you often have many windows open at once. For example, if you want to have Outlook open all the time plus a browser window. You can of course Alt-Tab between those but maybe you have lots and lots of e-mails open, that could make a lot of windows and a lot of clutter!

The multi-desktop feature allows you to have two or more desktops. Not for a place to put more icons, in fact it is still just one desktop. It's just that you have multiple views of the desktop. In the scenario of Outlook and a browser, you could open Outlook on one desktop and your browser on the other. It just limits the amount of windows you have to deal with at one time. You are limiting your clutter so to speak. Here's how to do it:

Click the Task View icon (to the right of the search box)

If you don't have the Task View button right click on the Taskbar and click Show Task View button

Click New Desktop (assuming you don't have Desktop 2 yet)

Click Desktop 2 

Whatever you open on Desktop 2 will be seen only from there. If you switch back to Desktop 1, it'll be as before. Try it, you'll see!

Add even more desktops by clicking New Desktop again.

To change desktop, just click the Task View icon again. An alternative is to press Ctrl-Win-arrow key (left or right).


Settings
By default Alt-Tab will cycle only through the windows you have open in the current, selected Desktop. However, if you want to change this, open Settings and search for "Multi-tasking", near the bottom of the screen you can change this setting under the sub-heading "Virtual Desktops".