{"id":2002,"date":"2021-08-24T11:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T09:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2021-08-24T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T09:06:16","slug":"how-to-create-desktop-shortcut-for-apps-from-windows-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"How to Create Desktop Shortcut for apps from Windows Store"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Installing application from Microsoft store has become more common and easy and it will be more useful in the future. Application installed from the store are located at <strong>c:\\program files\\Windowsapps<\/strong> which is a hidden folder with restricted access permission (which can be change in order to get full access)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"434\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WindowsAppsFolder.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2003\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WindowsAppsFolder.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?attachment_id=2003\" class=\"wp-image-2003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WindowsAppsFolder.png 434w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WindowsAppsFolder-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>creating shortcut to those application is a bit tricky, in order to open the shortcut window you need to execute from the run window (WINKEY + R) :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><em>shell:AppsFolder\u00a0<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/appsShurtcut.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2004\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/appsShurtcut.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?attachment_id=2004\" class=\"wp-image-2004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/appsShurtcut.jpg 650w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/appsShurtcut-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/appsShurtcut-394x221.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this window just select the app you want with the right mouse key and create shortcut from the popup menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-solid-color\"><blockquote class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><p><strong>Good Luck<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing application from Microsoft store has become more common and easy and it will be more useful in the future. Application installed from the store are located at c:\\program files\\Windowsapps which is a hidden folder with restricted access permission (which can be change in order to get full access) creating shortcut to those application is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tutorials","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}