Windows 10 Switch to Nth Virtual Desktop Shortcut Key
DEPRECATED
This tool is now deplicated and not working. As of 2019/12/14, I'm using Win10 Virtual Desktop Enhancer instead. Although Win10 VDE's repository is archived, it works as long as you replace its virtual-desktop-accessor.dll with the latest one, which you can get from the repository of VirtualDesktopAccessor.
What is this?
This is a small hotkey tool for mapping Ctrl + Win + number keys to "Switch to Nth Virtual Desktop", which is missing in the Windows 10 virtual desktop shortcuts.
How to use
Just run VirtualDesktopSwitchHotkey.exe in VirtualDesktopSwitchHotkey folder.
Copy VirtualDesktopSwitchHotkey.exe into your startup if you like it.
This tool uses AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) to map hotkeys. If you would like to change the key mapping, install it and rewrite an AutoHotKey script in VirtualDesktopSwitchHotkey\AutoHotKeyScriptsSample.
Implementation
VirtualDesktopSwitcher.exe is the core of this tool. It reads a number from command line arguments and calls Windows 10 private API to switch the virtual desktop.
NickoTin investigated the internal API of virtual desktops and published it on http://www.cyberforum.ru/blogs/105416/blog3671.html . All API interfaces VirtualDesktopSwitcher uses are based on it. Thanks for great post, NickoTin!!