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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching Windows Apps in FARR - EXAMPLE: Microsoft Edge.
« on: December 08, 2019, 04:22 PM »
@joes_garage: Cross-posted here in case you might not have seen this - it was a response made where you had been asking a similar/same question in another thread:
@joes_garage:How about Launching Windows Apps (Edge, etc)? Will it be in V3 or will it make it to FARR before that? Mouser, you said like 6 months ago that this feature was coming in soon. :-)I thought it was possible to launch Win10 Apps with FARR already, no?
____________________________-joes_garage (October 19, 2017, 03:08 PM)
Apps normally seem to have to be be loaded by the Windows Explorer Shell, which I find to be a pain.
Take MS Edge, for example.
Open the FARR window, Type/paste this string:
run shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge
- into the FARR search box, and then press Enter.
MS Edge will load.
Open the FARR window again, and repeat the type/paste of the string:
run shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge
The first search result will be the same string that you just entered previously.
Select this result and Right-Click it, choosing Add to Group Alias, then select New Alias Keyword/Group..
You can then add this as a new alias. (You can call it whatever you want, but I used $Edge)
You will see that FARR will have interpreted and recorded the string slightly differently, as:
shellexec shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdgeSpoiler(Source: C:\UTIL\Windows utilities\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\Clipboard Help+Spell\Database\Files\2017\10\20_710x571_23FD7004.png
Right-Clicking the same result will now show the newly-added alias in the menu:SpoilerSource: C:\UTIL\Windows utilities\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\Clipboard Help+Spell\Database\Files\2017\10\20_763x495_AC976BC6.png
(Was this the sort of thing you were looking for?)-IainB (October 19, 2017, 10:22 PM)