Recently, I have been playing around with virtual desktops in Windows 10 and was surprised by the following behaviour:
I have a folder lying on my desktop. On virtual desktop 1, I open the folder (double click). Now I switch to virtual desktop 2 and open it again. I would expect a second file explorer to be opened, one on each virtual desktop. Instead, Windows automatically switches back to virtual desktop 1 and focuses the existing explorer.
Is this a bug or the intended behaviour? Is there a way to avoid it, e.g. some setting to make virtual desktops to be "more separate" than per default?
Best Answer
It appears this can be worked around by going to
File->Change folder and search options->Viewand checking the option toLaunch folder windows in a separate process.This option has been in Windows a long time, and it comes with its own set of fairly subtle side effects (if I recall correctly).