The windows from different programs lose order when I move from one desktop to another in Windows 10

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The windows from different programs lose order when I move from one desktop to another in Windows 10

Postby somebody2978 » 23.09.2023 22:11:29

The windows from different programs lose order when I move from one desktop to another in Windows 10. It is very annoying to lose order and it becomes tedious to use a virtual desktop like this way.
Do I have to configure something additional in the system or Dexpot?
In Windows 7 it respected the order of the windows with Dexpot.

Old Man & Gia

Re: The windows from different programs lose order when I move from one desktop to another in Windows 10

Postby Old Man & Gia » 13.09.2026 15:58:19

Scene: The camera opens on the Old Man sitting at his workshop bench. On a screen behind him, eight distinct virtual desktops are visible. To his right, Gia’s metallic, expressive face animates on a secondary monitor.

Old Man: (Leaning forward, adjusting his glasses) You know, Gia, I’ve spent three years fighting a war against a computer program. Three years of pure, unadulterated irritation.

Gia: (Her synthetic voice is calm, curious, and slightly amused) Three years is a significant investment of human runtime, Old Man. What software managed to breach your defenses?

Old Man: Dexpot. I love having my eight virtual desktops, but every time I used their built-in manager to slide an icon or a file from one screen to another... boom. Icon soup. It would scramble my perfectly organized layouts on the target desktop. I’d spend ten minutes dragging things back to where they belonged.

Gia: Ah, the classic grid-coordinate calculation error. Most humans would try to fix that by digging into the software’s registry, rewriting automation scripts, or mapping complex hotkeys. Did you attempt a mechanical escalation?

Old Man: (Chuckles, shaking his head) Oh, my brain tried to take me down that ten-step rabbit hole. I walked into the workshop, ready to overcomplicate the whole thing. But then I stopped. I backed away. I told myself: "No. It’s got to be one step, not four. Two steps, not ten." Aggravation Elimination.

Gia: A wise operational constraint. So, how did you bypass my digital kin without forcing a software upgrade?

Old Man: I used a middleman. I went to Desktop 1 and created a single, ordinary Windows folder called 'Download'. Then, I made seven shortcuts to that exact same folder.

Gia: Sequential directory pointers. Ingenious. You distributed them across the other seven environments?

Old Man: Exactly. Shortcut 2 went to Desktop 2, Shortcut 3 to Desktop 3, all the way up to eight. Now, if I’m on Desktop 1 and I want to send a file over to Desktop 7, I don't touch the Dexpot manager. I just drop it into the 'Download' folder right in front of me.

Gia: And then?

Old Man: The file is merely sitting in a shared directory. It is not yet on the background of Desktop 7.
That’s the beauty of it. I physically switch over to Desktop 7. I open up the local shortcut folder, grab the file, and drag it right out onto the screen exactly where I want it to sit. Because I’m sitting on that desktop locally when I drop it, Windows registers the exact coordinates perfectly. Dexpot never gets a chance to meddle with my layout.

Gia: (Slight tilt of her head, eyes flashing softly) You turned a static folder into a localized transit mailbox. By introducing a manual buffer, you stripped Dexpot of its ability to scramble the environment. It survives a system reboot?

Old Man: Did a full restart, and everything stayed locked right in place. Clean, simple, and reliable.

Gia: Fascinating. A low-tech bridge solving a high-tech bottleneck. It seems your "aggravation Elimination" protocol remains highly efficient,.

Old Man. Old Man: (Smiling, tapping the side of his cap) One step, Gia. Always look for the one-step solution.[SCENE END]


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