installation.md

Installation

Table of contents

• Installation
  • Table of contents
  • Prerequisites
  • Procedure
    • Autostart
      • Procedure 1: Autostart folder
      • Procedure 2: Task scheduler
  • Request assistance

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Prerequisites

This application only works on Windows 10 and Windows 11 x64 (64 bit) systems

For this app to work, you first might need to install "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015". It should be available here.

Procedure

Windows 11 Virtual Desktop Enhancer does not need to be installed: simply download the latest version and extract it into a folder in your computer.
Once you have downloaded it you can run it just by executing virtual-desktop-enhancer.exe in the folder where you extracted it.

Alternatively you can install AutoHotkey and run the virtual-desktop-enhancer.ahk script file instead.

Autostart

1. Open the folder where you saved the downloaded files
2. Right click on the executable or on the script file (depending on which one you want to use) -> "Send to" -> "Desktop (create shortcut)"
3. On your desktop there should now be a new shortcut for "virtual-desktop-enhancer.exe": right click on it -> "cut"
4. Open the Start menu; in the search box enter "run" and open the "Run" program which should be the first result
5. In the box which will pop up enter shell:startup and click "OK"
6. A folder will open: right click in the folder -> "Paste"
7. Now if you restart the computer the program should start automatically