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

In Windows, you switch between windows, not applications. What we want is for switching to happen between applications.

At once, between an entire stack of windows of one application and another.

Answer 2

I know of no way to isolate just the apps to switch between.

If you want to suggest this to Microsoft you may be able to help improve this product/experience by using the Feedback Hub in the Start Menu apps list. 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.

Answer 3

How can you isolate the application from the windows!) And, most importantly, why.

If I want to get on a bike, it's not like I'm going to take one wheel first, then the other, frame, handlebars, seat every time I want to put it all together and ride. I'll just take the bike and go.

What if I suddenly need to copy a file between one window of windows explorer and the second, I don't want to bring one window of windows explorer to the forefront first, then the second. I just want to click on the explorer icon to activate all the windows of that application at once.

Answer 4

I do this all the time, by snapping one or more Explorer windows beside each other so I can copy files between them. This is what Aero Snap was devised for, and it works well. Once you snap a Window to a quadrant, all of the others that are opened are thumbnailed to the side so you can choose one or more to snap beside it. All open apps are included. The tutorial I gave you shows how to do this for any configuration of windows.

Answer 5

Yes, but the id of the window processes can change.

I won't keep the windows open all the time. Close one window, then open a new one etc. It's not like I have to magnetize them every time. This is not convenient in daily life.