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#TURN OFF TASK VIEW WINDOWS 10#

While disabling all accounts from showing activities will disable Timeline in Task View, unless you clear the Let Windows collect my activities from this PC and Let Windows sync my activities from this PC to the cloud options, Windows 10 will continue to collect and share your activities to your other devices. If you use multiple accounts, under Show activities from accounts section, you can decide which activities to show. On Task View, Timeline lists the activities from all your Microsoft accounts connected to your device. Otherwise, Windows 10 will only collect four days worth of activities. Let Windows sync my activities from this PC to the cloud: This option is disabled by default, and you must turn it on in order to access up to 30 days of activities, and tasks from other devices.Let Windows collect my activities from this PC: This option is enabled by default, and you must keep it enabled for Timeline to work.Under the 'Activity history' section, you'll find two options: Using the Settings app is possible to enable, disable, and customize various aspects and functionalities of Timeline. To access Timeline, click the Task view button in the taskbar or use the Windows key + Tab keyboard shortcut.ДЄs a result of Timeline being a feature that works across devices, in order to differentiate activities originated from another device, you'll notice that activities will include the name of the computer that started the task.

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Timeline is a feature that leverages the Microsoft's cloud infrastructure allowing you to pick up activities you're working in the past within the Task View experience.ДЄctivities can include articles you're reading in Microsoft Edge, an Office document, or task from an app that you started on your computer, or from another device connected with the same Microsoft account, including on your Android or iOS device. Under the 'Virtual desktops' section, you'll notice two drop-down menus that allow you to decide whether the taskbar and pressing the 'Alt + Tab' keyboard shortcut should include the open windows only on the virtual desktop that they're on, or on all desktops. While virtual desktops is a simple feature, using the Settings app, you can customize a few options to get the most out of the experience. Show windows from this app on all desktops. If you need to show an app or a window on all desktops, while in Task View, right-click the app, and select one of two options:

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You can even drop the app into the plus (+) button, in which case, it'll create a new virtual desktop with the app.ДЄlthough virtual desktops is a feature to separate activities into groups, sometimes, you need a particular app to be available on all desktops. While in Task View, virtual desktops will appear a the top of the experience.ДЄlternatively, you can drag and drop a running application to the virtual desktop you want. To access the experience, click the Task view button in the taskbar or use the Windows key + Tab keyboard shortcut. Typically, this feature comes in handy to keep work tasks separate from your personal tasks, or when multitasking between different activities, and you don't have a multi-monitor setup. Using this feature, you can create multiple environments that each can run different apps keeping your focus on a particular project. Virtual desktops is an easy-to-use feature in Task View designed to help you organize related activities into groups. In addition, you can keep pressing the shortcut to cycle through apps, and when you land on a particular app, it'll take you to that application on the desktop that's running. On the other hand, when using the Alt + Tab keyboard shortcut, you're accessing a list of all your running applications no matter in which virtual desktop they're running.

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