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Question about Windows Virtual Dekstops

I switched to using windows recently, and have been getting used to some of it's quirks and improvements compared to OSX, but there's one thing that's making me go crazy.

Both windows and OSX have virtual desktops, but on OSX you can move their position relative to each other. Example:

Say I have three virtual desktops arranged like this:

[Desktop with task manager, chrome, and some screenshots] [Desktop with Premier and file explorer] [Desktop with another chrome window and a game]

Is there any way to move the entire virtual desktop with premier and file explorer so that they're arranged like this:

[Desktop with Premier and file explorer] [Desktop with task manager, chrome, and some screenshots]  [Desktop with another chrome window and a game]

 

I really want there to be a way to do this, because it's driving me insane to have to move a bunch of windows if I want to change the order of anything.

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Just now, NicoV said:

WHY?! This is the one thing that I think is undeniably better about Windows or OS X.

Honestly not sure why. I can't imagine it would be a particularly difficult thing to implement, it should have really been part of virtual desktops at the beginning but MS haven't added it in any of the builds for some reason

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24 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Honestly not sure why. I can't imagine it would be a particularly difficult thing to implement, it should have really been part of virtual desktops at the beginning but MS haven't added it in any of the builds for some reason

This might be a long shot, but is there a way to move multiple windows from one virtual desktop to another?

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1 minute ago, NicoV said:

This might be a long shot, but is there a way to move multiple windows from one virtual desktop to another?

If you press Win+Tab to go to task view, you can drag and drop running applications to another desktop, or rightclick to move or duplicate them. 

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20 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

If you press Win+Tab to go to task view, you can drag and drop running applications to another desktop, or rightclick to move or duplicate them. 

I know about that. It seems to limit you to moving application windows one at a time though, rather than letting you select multiple and moving them all at once (Something like moving multiple files from one folder to another)

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3 minutes ago, NicoV said:

I know about that. It seems to limit you to moving application windows one at a time though, rather than letting you select multiple and moving them all at once (Something like moving multiple files from one folder to another)

Not that I know of, you seem to have to do it one at a time.

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