Windows 10: Can't close virtual desktops.

A classmate opened 50 virtual desktops on my laptop and now i can not close them. If I try to open the desktop manager, my Windows crashes. Is there a key-kombination to close them seperately or what should I do?

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Windows 10, Virtual Desktop.

Hi Tobi.X,

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Community Forums.

I appreciate your efforts to work on this issue.

Suggest you to refer to the steps from this article to check if that works for you.

How to close all Virtual Desktops at once in Windows 10:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/How-to-close-all-Virtual-b7eb8269

You need to run the execution policy first. Then you can copy and paste the script to Powershell window to close all the virtual desktop. Any application open in other desktop will be moved to the active one.

If you have further questions or for further help and support, you may post your question in the

TechNet Forums, where we have support professionals who are well equipped with the knowledge, skill and resource to handle queries regarding this issue.

Cheers and Regards,

Srimadhwa B

Microsoft Community-Moderator

 

Virtual Desktops showing apps not in certain desktops

Hi, I have a problem with W10 virtual desktops.

I'll explain it step by step :

Go to virtual desktop 1
Open full windowed Chrome
Go to virtual desktop 2
Open two different full windowed excels
Hit windows-tab

And you end up in this mess i'm attaching as a screenshot.

If you click on destktop 3 icon, you'll be there, but excel will be shown, full windowed, as if you were on desktop 2.
If you then minimize it, it goes to the desktop 2 taskbar.


If you click on desktop 1 icon, you'll get there, but excels will be shown instead of Chrome. If you put the mouse over desktop 1 icon and then click Chrome above virtual desktops, you'll get to desktop 1 with Chrome being shown as normal.

If you close one of the two excels, virtual desktops works again as expected.

What can I test to solve this mess?

Thanx a lot, I've been expecting a fix in every new compilation, with no luck.

César

 

Virtual desktops

In the article you linked it says talks about 4 goals Microsoft has with virtual desktops:

• Give you more desktop space to group related windows
• Help you quickly locate and switch to any window or group of windows
• Let you easily re-organize your groups and move windows as tasks evolve
• Keep you in control of the degree of separation between your grouped windows

Not being able to control what desktop the program opens on really doesn't fit in with these goals.

Give me one good reason for why it is suppose force me to change virtual desktop when I open a program, just one good reason and I will consider to drop the issue. To me this sounds like virtual desktops isn't ready yet and you refuse to acknowledge that
there are bugs, because this makes it very hard to work with multiply virtual desktops.