Multiple Desktops

Really like the multiple Desktops. @ 1st thought it was much like Alt-Tab or hovering across Taskbar, basically, another View/Select approach. In 7 (& 8) would run more than one tabbed browser grouping related sites in each. This
does that and on a higher level. Can EASILY be done by 'family' or even if different sign-ins are required. Can be put to good use, keeping things nicely organized & the Desktop, et al, neat, clean & uncluttered.
Just wanted to reiterate what a cool feature I find this to be of Windows 10. IT is so nice how related things can be grouped together making the experience slick, neat, tidy & very organised & uncluttered... not having a bunch of stuff all mixed
up together on one Desktop. Microsoft calls it "Virtual Desktops". For example, I have one w/ Skype, Outlook, Calendar... another w/ all IT stuff.... another w/ Home page & whatever & another w/ sites devoted to a singer/song-write
of particular interest to me. Anyway, you get the idea and certainly can be configured however YOU fancy. You simply open one, put what you want in it, hit the + sign & open another, fill it and so on. I am not sure, yet, as to how many
one can have but, a few, @ any rate.
10 sure is easy to use. Makes such a nice difference not having 'Hot Corners', hidden things or stuff that pops out from edges. Plus, now, w/ 10 and its menu, I don't have to enable the Desktop Toolbar or create a folder on the Taskbar for Applications
and can, still, not have to change screens for anything; just be 100% on the good ole Desktop. All w/ hardly any 'learning curve'! And it sure is speedy! Certainly, non-touch PC Users should not have complaints w/ Windows 10.
Cheers,
Drew
Drew MS Partner / MS Beta Tester / Pres. Computer Issues Pres. Computer Issues www.drewsci.com

Thanks for your response. I think we might be talking about the same Desktop... If you close all your folders and applications and just have the Finder - I'm talking about that Desktop. The one that's called "Desktop" in Places. The one that in System Preferences is called "Desktop and Screensaver" and lets you place a picture of your choosing in the background. I think that's what you mean when you say it's "the background that all your windows and folder sit on." That's the Desktop I mean. (It is called the Desktop, isn't it?) The point isn't having different pictures there - that was hypothetical. At the moment I have a few folders and quicktime files sitting on my Desktop. If I create multiple Spaces - no matter which Space I open, the exact same folders and quicktimes remain on the Desktop. What I was wondering - and suspect isn't possible to do - is being able to create multiple Desktops: one that will have nothing but quicktime files waiting to be opened, one that will have nothing but folders waiting to be opened, etc. I hope this is clearer.
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