Windows 10: Windows 11 opening multiple instances of same application

How do I force Win 11 to open only 1 instance of an app when I select it's icon from the toolbar or desktop? In Win 10, when I opened an app such as Notepad, I could then open my browser or any other app and Notepad would be minimized on the toolbar unless I had the Windows tiled or cascaded. While the browser app still had focus, I could click on the Notepad icon again to maximize the 1 instance of Notepad. The focus would then go to Notepad. It worked great!In Win 11, if I clicked on the Notepad icon a second time, it will launch a 2nd instance of Notepad. Not horrible except that once 2 o

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Multiple instances of Windows Explorer

So in the Processes tab, under Apps, however many Windows Explorers I actually have open is however many it will list, and expanding will list the specific folder that is open, there is no problem there. The problem is when you scroll down to Windows processes, that's where all the multiple instances are. Right now it's only showing 7 but that is because I restarted my computer a couple hours ago, I've counted as many as 40+ before.

 

Windows Multiple Desktop Auto Switching (for single instance apps)

Hello Nikhar,

You wrote:

"I understand that you want a new instance of application to open when you access the application in Multiple Desktops. However, certain applications only allow single instance, that is the reason the application gets
moved between the Multiple Desktops."

That's not quite true. I don't seem to have been fully understood. I correct your remarks:

1.

I do NOT want a new instance of an application to open when I open it in another desktop. That is NOT my wish. Because I know that some applications do not allow this. I accept that.

2.

"that is the reason the application gets moved between the multiple desktops." This is not happening! The applications do NOT move between the multiple desktops!

3.

I would like the functionality described in point 2 to exist.

"Hence, I suggest you to provide your valuable feedback and ideas in our Feedback
Hub, where our developers can look into the requests and constantly improve the features of Windows."

Thanks for this advice!

 

How to open multiple images in same instance of Photo Viewer?

Rather than use Photos I changed the Open with to Windows Photo Viewer then double-clicking a file in Pictures opened in Windows Photo Viewer which let me click the arrow to step through all the images in that Folder.