How To Put Apps On Desktop Windows 8.1

Windows 8 lets you lot view its new "metro-style" apps and the traditional desktop on the same screen. This lets you be productive and have fun with the apps too.

Windows 8 as a neat characteristic that lets you view its new "metro-way" apps and the traditional desktop on the same screen. It also allows you to view two Windows 8 apps on the same screen. The characteristic is bachelor in all versions of the new Windows Os, and you tin can practice it via a touchscreen or with a mouse and keyboard.

Annotation: To use this characteristic your screen resolution needs to be at least 1366×768 pixels.

View Windows 8 Apps and Desktop

With a keyboard and mouse, hover the pointer in the lower left or upper right corner of the screen. Then move the mouse straight upwards or down to bring upwardly the App Switcher. This is a new feature in Windows 8 that will display thumbnail tiles of running apps. Or you can employ the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + Tab to brandish it.

Then right click on an app and select Snap to Correct or Snap to Left. If y'all use the keyboard shortcut to brandish the App Switcher, you'll need to continue property the Windows primal while you right click the app you lot want. You can too just click and elevate an app to either side of the screen.

Hither I snapped the Bing app to the right of the desktop.

Then you can slide the screen over to make either the desktop or app portion of the screen larger.

If yous slide the app screen so information technology'southward larger, the smaller desktop will only show thumbnail tiles of what'southward open. Then if you click a tile on the desktop, it volition open the desktop in the larger screen and brand the app screen modest.

While working in the Desktop, you still have the Aero Snap feature that was introduced in Windows 7 too. Remember that feature allows you to snap open up programs to the left, correct or full screen. Then if you desire to exercise some serious multitasking, you tin have two windows open up on the desktop and a Windows 8 app open on the same screen.

In this example I have a document and Google Chrome open on the desktop, and Xbox Music on the right.

There's limitless possibilities of what to testify on the desktop along with a Windows 8 app. Hither I resized a couple of windows on the desktop and the Netflix app on the right.