Running UWP (Univeral Windows Platform) applications from Slickrun

[Ricky Cormier]

Has anyone come up with a standard and consistent way to add a magic-word to run UWP applications that don't involve digging into the internals of Windows to find out application IDs and so on?

Cheers.

[EricLaw]

Sadly, no, not that I know of.

[Ricky Cormier]

I've previously written code (for work) to do just this sort of thing. If I coded up a sort of example solution, is it something that would be of interested?

[Karl Brown]

This is probably just an example of "digging into the internals of Windows" like you mentioned, but here's my process for creating UWP MagicWords:

Create a MagicWord where the Filename is 'explorer.exe' and the Parameter contains the following:

shell:appsfolder\[TARGET]

Determine what the variable [TARGET] should be replaced with by doing the following:

1. In SlickRun (or the Windows Run dialog box) open: shell:appsfolder

2. Find the app you are interested in, right-click on it & create a shortcut.

3. Look at the properties of the shortcut and replace [TARGET] with the entire contents from the Target field in the shortcut properties.

[Mark McClelland]

It would be nice if the SlickRun eye-dropper could detect a modern UWP app and build out the explorer.exe or start command with Package Name, Publisher ID, and Application ID needed to run it from the command-line. I wrote a blog post the other day about what's involved in getting this info: https://poetengineer.postach.io/post/how-to-open-windows-modern-app-from-the-command-line

On Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 11:48:48 AM UTC-5, Ricky Cormier wrote: