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Adding Windows Store Apps

Kim Knight edited this page Sep 6, 2023 · 1 revision

@jks-liu posted this solution in response to issue #89:

My workaround is to create a *.cmd file to open Windows Apps, then add this cmd file to the list [in RemoteApp Tool].

So, this question becomes how to open Windows Apps in cmd. For some apps it is easy, for e.g., you can use below command to open Windows Store:

start ms-windows-store:

But for other Windows Apps, we need another way. For e.g., I'd like to open Microsoft Todos, I can use below command (in my PC, maybe different in yours):

start shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.Todos_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App

The key is to find the app's full name of Microsoft.Todos_8wekyb3d8bbwe.

We can use below command to search the app's full name (Below command should be run in PowerShell):

Get-AppxPackage | Select-Object Name, PackageFullName | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*todo*" }

Name            PackageFullName
----            ---------------
Microsoft.Todos Microsoft.Todos_2.104.62421.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Then change the search result to above pattern, delete the version string and do not forget the !App in the end.