[navjack27]

If I could do that with everything I would.

Windows needs window containers in which house windowed "desktops" that house programs.

I want to put a project on pause I can just close the container and pick up with everything in it later instead of trying to document and remember where and what I was using and opening everything the same way every time

[Jtsummers]

Windows supports virtual desktops which is how I generally group different applications and documents that are open simultaneously. Use Windows+Tab to bring up the set of current desktops and create a new one. Windows+Control+left/right will let you move one at a time through them (though it doesn't cycle, leftmost and rightmost don't bring you back to the next).

Or you can use VMs like some projects do in my office. Closed and status saved, totally restored to the last working condition when reopened. It's convenient, though not my personal preference (also cleanly handles issues around projects requiring different versions of some system libraries and tooling).

[bmitc]

Do you mean Windows as in the OS? (Not sure since it's the first word in your sentence.) Because Windows has a multiple desktops feature which allows you to group open applications for various purposes. To my knowledge, it does not have a sort of container-like restart capability, but you could just leave everything in the desktop open.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/multiple-desktop...

Your feature request of suspend and resume is actually a pretty neat idea. Both Windows and macOS have features to re-open windows after restart, so I assume they could do the same for both of their multiple desktops feature.

[cassianoleal]

That sounds a lot like KDE Plasma Activities [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAI2NDJadDM

[jasfi]

Virtual desktops sounds like what you want. Just press Win+Tab.