How to Enable or Disable Automatically Open Desktop View app in Mixed Reality on Windows 10


Windows Mixed Reality blends real-world and virtual content into hybrid environments where physical and digital objects coexist and interact.

While inside Windows Mixed Reality, you can use the Desktop view app to interact with your PC desktop without taking off your headset.

While you are wearing a headset, Windows can detect when focus moves to apps on your Windows 10 desktop and automatically start the Desktop view app in Mixed Reality for you.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable automatically open the Desktop View app when a desktop app gains focus while wearing a headset in Mixed Reality for your account in Windows 10.

This Desktop view setting is currently only available to Windows Insider builds.


Windows Mixed Reality is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Windows. This deprecation includes the Mixed Reality Portal app, and Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR and Steam VR Beta.



Contents

  • Option One: Enable or Disable Automatically Open Desktop View app in Mixed Reality in Settings
  • Option Two: Enable or Disable Automatically Open Desktop View app in Mixed Reality using REG file






OPTION ONE

Enable or Disable Automatically Open Desktop View app in Mixed Reality in Settings


1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Mixed reality icon.

2 Click/tap on Startup and desktop on the left side. (see screenshot below)

3 Check (enable - default) or uncheck (disable) Open the Desktop view app when a desktop app gains focus and I'm wearing my headset for what you want under Desktop view on the right side.

4 You can now close Settings if you like.

Enable or Disable Automatically Open Desktop View app in Mixed Reality-mixed_reality_desktop_view.jpg






OPTION TWO

Enable or Disable Automatically Open Desktop View app in Mixed Reality using REG file


The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Holographic

DesktopAppLaunchEnabled DWORD

0 = Disable
1 = Enable


1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2 To Enable Automatically Open Desktop View app in Mixed Reality

This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_automatically_start_Desktop_view_in_Mixed_Reality.reg

Download


3 To Disable Automatically Open Desktop View app in Mixed Reality

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_automatically_start_Desktop_view_in_Mixed_Reality.reg

Download


4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink


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