{"id":23876,"date":"2016-08-17T03:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=23876"},"modified":"2016-08-17T06:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:38:17","slug":"windows-10-task-view-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-10-task-view-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Task View Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Windows 10 Task View Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

We like hierarchical functionality. Maybe it’s because we admire it, and\/or maybe because it seems natural, or organised (better than “ordered”?) maybe?<\/p>\n

With that in mind, we hope if you are a Windows user you ended up buying or upgrading (as we discussed with Windows 10 Upgrade Primer Tutorial<\/a> below) to Windows 10, because we like a feature in Windows 10 called “Task View” for the setup of “virtual desktops”. You may recall our forays into using “virtual machines”<\/a> with Virtual Box and Vagrant and Ansible<\/a> for the purposes of deployment and simulations, perhaps. You take the “environment” with you, as a turtle would … but maybe you move faster?! Well, on Windows 10 the “Task View” functionality, controlled by the “Task View Button” … on our “Task Bar”<\/a> being to the right of Cortana<\/a> (which we discussed with Windows 10 Cortana Primer Tutorial<\/a>), which is to the right of the “Windows Icon” … to allow for the dynamic creation of these “virtual desktops” on Windows 10.<\/p>\n

People who feel comfortable snapshotting a point in time might want to use “Task View” functionality to save an environmental scenario.<\/p>\n

Roughly speaking, here is how to use the “Task View Button” controller of “Task View” on Windows 10 … where you’ve never used it before …<\/p>\n