{"id":50829,"date":"2026-11-11T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/lost-track-of-which-windows-virtual-desktop-youre-on-this-free-tool-helps\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:35:00","slug":"lost-track-of-which-windows-virtual-desktop-youre-on-this-free-tool-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/lost-track-of-which-windows-virtual-desktop-youre-on-this-free-tool-helps\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost track of which Windows virtual desktop you\u2019re on? This free tool helps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/about\/affiliate-link-policy\" target=\"_blank\">editorial independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> \t\t \t\t \t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\tJuggling multiple Windows desktops? Here&#8217;s a small open-source tool that always shows which one you&#8217;re on, and how to set it up.\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t     <\/p>\n<p>Windows allows you to create multiple desktops, so that users can quickly switch between a work environment, a personal one, and a desktop optimized for gaming. This often leads to overlap: a word processor, for example, is normally needed for both work and personal correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>If the program is running in full-screen mode, it\u2019s often hard to tell which desktop you\u2019re currently on. The simplest method is to assign a different background to each desktop.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3277776\/lost-track-of-which-windows-desktop-youre-on-this-free-tool-helps.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our editorial independence . Juggling multiple Windows desktops? Here&#8217;s a small open-source tool that always shows which one you&#8217;re on, and how to set it up. Windows allows you to create multiple desktops, so that users can quickly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,1720],"class_list":["post-50829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}