Greetings, I'm Professor Kay. And in this short video presentation, we're going to take a look at how we can use Task View to create multiple desktop environments. So currently, I have my default desktop environment. So let's just go ahead and open up Server Manager for this one. I'm gonna go ahead and make that a little smaller so you can see what's going on here. Now, if I go over here, to the left, near where the start menu is, we have this option for Task View.
Now if I click on this, you'll see that I now have a number of different desktops. Let me go ahead and close these out for you. Close that one out, close this one out. That brings me back to my default desktop, which is my original. Now that I have Task View turned on, I can turn it off. I can turn it on.
And then over here to the right, I can create a new desktop. Now this new desktop allows me to launch other applications software and run them In a different desktop, and then I can go back and forth, click on my Task View. Now I have another desktop here. So let's go ahead. And for this one, let's launch PowerShell. So now for this desktop environment, I have PowerShell.
Working on my original, I have Server Manager working, we can launch another task view. And I'm going to go ahead and launch a new desktop. And this time, we're going to launch File Explorer. So now I have File Explorer running on one desktop. I have PowerShell running on another, and on another, I have my Server Manager and I can go back and forth just by clicking on Task View and selecting the desktop I want to work in. Now this is similar to virtualization.
So you could have different things happening each one of these desktops, you could be working in one desktop and in one of your other desktops, you could be performing a server backup for instance. So you want to get rid of that. desktop use open up Task View. And you can then close them out. Just like that, click on Task View. And you have all three of those applications back onto your original desktop.
So if you don't want those applications, close them out before you close out your virtual desktop. Now if you do reboot, or restart your server, you'll have your desktops, but you will not have those applications running when you come back up. You will be able to say those virtual desktops, but whatever you had running in them, will not be there when you come back up. So in this short video presentation, you got to see how you can use Task View neither Windows Server 2016 2019 or Windows 10 to launch multiple virtual desktops