I’ve lived a multi-monitor lifestyle since the CRT days. I’ve since upgraded over the years, most recently to an ultrawide monitor paired with a portrait 1080p screen, and didn’t think much of it… until I decided one day that maybe my fellow PCWorld staffers were right about virtual desktops.

Windows has long offered the ability to create additional desktops —you can open apps in different desktops, corralling them based on function or need. Most commonly, people use these to separate work and play. I’ve always just kept whole separate PCs for that, and otherwise, my open apps tended to be condensed. Until they weren’t.

That’s especially so as I began to move around my house more, sometimes working from other spots than my main desk in order to get more sunlight or to relieve some pres

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