Task View & Multiple Monitors

Question

_{Thursday, July 30, 2015 11:41 PM | 1 vote}

Sometimes I use my second monitor to watch  videos, streams, etc.

If I use my primary monitor and change between virtual desktops it changes both monitors.

So, is it possible to make the Task View only work on one monitor?

All replies (6)

_{Sunday, August 2, 2015 2:20 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

I am afraid that you cannot do it. At least not ready yet for now. A "desktop" is all of your monitors combined. This is why it says "Extend your desktop" when you apply more than one monitors.

Thus, when you have a new virtual desktop, it will display on all monitors, and there is no way to make a monitor see one desktop and another monitor shows a different desktop.

Regards,

D. Wu

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_{Wednesday, November 30, 2016 3:23 PM}

Hello Deason, any update on this feature yet? Ty.

_{Thursday, October 19, 2017 5:37 PM | 1 vote}

This isn't the problem I have. I actively use both of my monitors for work and apparently, Windows 10 has been designed to NOT work on computers using two monitors.

Using taskview only shows programs I have on my first monitor, never anything on the second monitor, nor does using it show on both monitors like you've stated. I don't believe this is such a hard thing to do - if I have programs on my second monitor, I want them to STAY there and be shown when I need to switch back and forth.

Does no one at Microsoft use more than one monitor? I can't believe in 2017, NO ONE there doesn't at least have a second monitor. At this point, I've needed to use third party options, but again, Windows 10 seems to have made it near impossible to even do that.

For your next update, instead of adding new features people don't really want, why don't you try fixing your current issues that have become cumbersome for users? Multiple monitors for one - allow for the ability to have a second taskbar with different dedicated pinned icons that are different from the main taskbar (the way Display Fusion has done); make task view customizable and WORK with more than one monitor (the way Actual Windows/Virtual Desktop/Multiple Monitors, Dexpot, Virtual Dimension and other alternate virtual desktop programs do).

_{Wednesday, February 28, 2018 10:24 PM | 1 vote}

In task view if a window from monitor 1 is dragged to monitor 2, it just disappears into the gap.  If the window is snapped right, it snaps to the right of monitor 1, not to the right of the desktop which is at the right side of monitor 2.   The mouse moves correctly between 1 and 2, but windows get stuck at the boundary.

If there is a fullscreen window on monitor 1, there is no way to move any other windows out from under it.  The context menu on the taskbar doesn't have a "snap right" function, and both drag and snap right fail under task view.

In normal view the mouse moves correctly between 1 and 2 and windows drag correctly between 1 and 2.

Properly supporting multiple monitors isn't rocket science.  It is pathetic that task view has been this broken for so long.

_{Wednesday, August 21, 2019 2:52 PM}

If they could only set additional properties to each monitor so that task view for that particular monitor that would be activated for task view only. I hate Mac's hardware but this Windows Task View has me using my Mac Mini 2011 with mission control as my main computer.

_{Friday, March 20, 2020 7:11 PM}

It's ridiculous to expect that users would want to manage both screens as a single desktop. Y the hell would someone buy two screens? so they can do the same work on both??? Amazing logic at work here.

Please make task managers separated per display.