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How to open an application with hotkeys on the current Windows 10 virtual desktop?
I have several virtual desktops (work-1, work-2, personal, training, etc.).
And about a dozen applications that I constantly use and call with hot keys (hotkeys) or from the tray.
Problem. When some application is open on the first desktop: mail client, Telegram, OneNote, then calling this application from the tray or hotkey throws me to this desktop, instead of opening this application (or copy) on the current virtual desktop. How to be?
A copy is not required at all, let the application itself open on the desired desktop with a hotkey (or from the tray).
In other words, now I am being transferred to a virtual desktop, where the application is already open. And it is necessary, on the contrary, to transfer this open application to the current desktop.
Especially tin with multi-window applications:
Opened any text file from the explorer → and you flew to the desktop where Notepad ++ is open.
Opened .xlsx from the explorer → flew to the desktop where Excel is open.
Those. files are opened on the virtual desktop where there was last activity in this program, and not on the current one.
Couldn't google solutions. TP Microsoft issued an unsubscribe "not a bug, but a feature" =)
Help, plz. Maybe you can somehow solve the problem through bat, vbs or autohotkey scripts? Agree on any crutch. For example, virtual-desktop-enhancer
works through autohotkey, which I actively use, and there you can use a hotkey to transfer any window to another desktop, but for this you must first go to the desktop where this application is already open (if open).
PS Windows 10 Pro release 21H2 license.
zy2. If there are alternative solutions for virtual desktops to make different work environments and quickly switch between them (using the same hotkeys), then that is also good.
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Virtuawin can do exactly this, but I haven’t tried it on ten, conflicts are possible.
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