Switching between applications in windows

Question

Good day to you all.

Question about switching applications in windows 10 operating system.

There are several ways to switch between open applications. Two ways out of several more:

1. Using the alt/win+tab keyboard shortcuts.
2. Selecting the desired application on the taskbar.

Or rather - it's not even the applications, but the processes of the container of the application we need - the application window.

And this is the tricky part. On the one hand it is sort of a convenient option to switch, but on the other hand it is not the best option.

As an example:

I have two applications open. In the first application I see one window - Edge. And in the second application I see three windows, not counting the shell - three windows explorer windows and the desktop with all the taskbars and icons on the desktop. The explorer windows look at different paths in the file system. That is, they are not just duplicate windows (ctrl+n, ctrl+n, ctrl+n)

In the foreground, expanded to full screen, I see the Edge application. The windows windows explorer windows are minimized. And here I need to expand all three windows and copy files between them.

I don't know any other way to do the following:

1. Click on the explorer icon on the taskbar, or alt+tab to bring up the first window.
2. Click the explorer icon on the taskbar, or alt+tab to bring up the second window.
3. Click the explorer icon on the taskbar, or alt+tab bring up the third window.

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Is this supposed to happen?

For example. At home, under mac os, I just click on the Finder app in the dock and thus bring that app to the foreground. I would open the desired tab of the three, grab the file I want and drag it to another tab. That's it!!! And it's worked that way for years!

Okay. But how to optimize this for windows? Let these tabs be released in 5 years at the earliest, as far as the stability of this option is concerned. I don't want to put third-party crutches.
But how to make it possible to switch not to the process (some window), but to the entire application (container), with all its windows?

Answer 1

Hello, I'm Greg, here to help you with this.

I suggest trying Aero Snap to snap the Windows either side by side for 2 or 3, or in quadrants for 4. This is previewed by hovering the cursor over the middle maximize button at top right of any Window.

Here's more about how it works:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RkfHNUhYiQ

If you want to express your opinion on this you may be able to help Microsoft improve this product/experience by using the Feedback Hub in Start Menu, especially if you are comfortable with sharing relevant data and screen recordings. Microsoft developers DO read feedback from customers that comes in via the Feedback Hub, so that is a great way to share your thoughts on how to better serve you as a customer.

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the detailed results you post back, I will have other suggestions if necessary.

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Answer 2

The stipulated example gives advice on how to work with a particular window (process) but not with an application (container, in windows os view).

This is nice, but about a different point.

The whole idea is not to switch between windows (processes), but between applications (containers).

An example from the mac os world: cmd+tab: select Google Chrome, among others, and you will see all the windows of this application, if there are at least 100 of them (conditional).

cmd+tab again: select Finder - all windows of this application are in front of us.

This is what my task is.

And windows snap is to manipulate the selected window of a particular application out of the many windows of that application. Even if the application has a lot of windows open, we will still only work with one of them.

Answer 3

Thank you for clarifying. Aero Snap is so convenient I use it for everything. But here are other ways, specifically for apps, too:

Here are all methods to switch between apps quickly in Windows 10:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6082-switch...

Let me know how those work for what you need.

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Answer 4

The title isn't quite right there, either.

The title of that thread is "How to Switch Between Open Apps in Windows 10".

In reality, it's about: "How to Switch Between windows of Open Apps in Windows 10".

The same "old things" just reheated.

Answer 5

Sorry if it isn't what you want. Shawn is the most respected tutorial writer in the tech industry. His tutorials are used by millions.

Perhaps I'm not understanding what exactly you want, or the difference between switching between open apps and the open windows of apps. Can you explain the difference a bit more?