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

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.

Let me know if I can help further. I'll stay subscribed to this thread in case you need anything else, until the system locks it in a few months.

Answer 2

Honestly, I never understood the benefits) For example, I have several windows of windows explorer open, but in the foreground a full screen Chrome browser window is open. I need to switch to this very "windows snap just for explorer windows". What's the use? I drag one of the explorer windows to the foreground and do piiiim)))) And nothing. At least the explorer window will be shifted by a hedgehog due to these super hotkeys, but other explorer windows will not appear until you activate them with the mouse))) Well, there is also win+tab))) It's all a ton of action. I didn't want to say, or somehow advertise mac os, but there you just click on the Finder icon on the dock and that's it! the Finder windows are in front of you. I'm not even talking about tabs in mac os apps. That's the whole "pii!ym".

Answer 3

I might as well write this letter to the Sports Lotto)
Well, let's be honest. I'm sure there are thousands of requests for topics that haven't changed in decades. Do they need it? I mean the architects of this system.