Point to one of your desktop icons, and click its X close button. When you’ve had enough, re-enter Task View. You rotate to the previous or next desktop. Press three keys simultaneously: Control, Windows key, and the right or left arrow key. Drag the miniatures of your open apps onto the corresponding desktops.Ĭlick the real desktop - or any of the miniatures - to exit Task View. Move your cursor to the first one: The “cards” representing all your open programs appear. As you can see at the bottom, you now have two “screens.” Click New Desktop again for a third screen, and so on.

To set up screens, enter Task View (see the video above). But virtual ones are free and very compact.

Ordinarily, of course, attaching so many screens to a single computer would be a massively expensive proposition, not to mention detrimental to your living space and personal relationships. Well, in Windows 10, you can set up an unlimited number of virtual monitors -simulated ones. Screen 2 can hold Photoshop, with an open document and the palettes carefully arrayed. Screen 1 might contain your email and chat windows, arranged just the way you like them. You can dedicate each screen to a different program or kind of program. People who’ve bought second and third monitors, and figured out how to set up and configure them, can vouch for the resulting productivity boost.

Free virtual display manager