[PT Run] - Program plugin not pulling back exe naming. (example: winword)

[dedavis6797]

ℹ Computer information

• PowerToys version: v0.33.1
• PowerToy Utility: PowerToys Run
• Running PowerToys as Admin: N/A
• Windows build number: 19042.867

📝 Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Ensure the Program plugin is enabled for PowerToys Run
2. Open PowerToys run and try to launch cmd with the command .cmd.exe
3. Open PowerToys run again and try to launch Edge with the command .msedge.exe

✔️ Expected result

Both commands successfully launch their corresponding applications.

❌ Actual result

cmd launches, but Edge does not.

[htcfreek]

@dedavis6797
Is it correct that you can reproduce this?

[dedavis6797]

Yes, I reproduced this.

[crutkas]

winword is same way. pretty sure WinWord used to work and that is a muscle memory item

[htcfreek]

My theory: All exe names that aren't declare as run command don't work. And I mean that we have changed something there. But please don't ask me what.

[crutkas]

Tested 0.20, this did work.

[crutkas]

@enricogior, think this should be either 37/39 for a fix

[royvou]

As reference this was broken in the following release.

v0.21.1...v0.23.0

File Win32Program:

Executablename is set to Word.lnk instead of WINWORD.exe

[dedavis6797]

This hasn't been resolved. I'm still unable to launch Edge with .msedge.exe. This feels like a lower priority though, so I'll punt it to 0.49.

[crutkas]

if you do msedge it works but not msedge.exe, this needs a bit more investigation but the heart of the issue was being able to type things like "winword" like run prompt, not "winword.exe"

[crutkas]

We released 0.60.1 and this is included in it! https://aka.ms/installpowertoys