These registrations won’t help Open With find the app, though. Update ( ): Windows finds app aliases because of App Path registrations. You can run them and launch their associated programs through the Start Process system call, but no other method works (such as double-clicking on the executable file). They’re zero byte files with no special file system attributes or anything out of the ordinary. The aliases aren’t regular Windows shortcut files (.LNK) or file system junctions. To be honest, I don’t know what dark magic or system calls are involved in getting app aliases to run. The folder can be accessed by a regular user without modifying any security policies. The aliases are added to the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WindowsApps folder. Anything in the PATH can be launched from the Run dialog, Terminal, PowerShell, or even the File Explorer location bar. App execution aliases add an app’s preferred executable file name into the PATH variable on Windows. Some Store apps, such as the Kate text editor and Okular document reader, create app execution aliases. However, don’t need to access this folder directly, so you should leave its security protections in place. You can find tutorials showing you how to access it, but this requires that you remove the security locks entirely. This is a special protected system folder that not even administrative users have access to. Locating a Store app is practically impossible.īy default, Microsoft Store apps install into a folder at %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps. Locating the right program on disk isn’t easy unless you’re familiar with where they’re typically installed. This will bring up a file chooser dialog where you can choose what program to run.
Traditionally, you’ve been able to use Open with and choose to Look for another app on this PC.
However, Open With (that’s the name of the program that lists programs and handles file associations) won’t list programs that haven’t registered a file association. It should be as easy as right-clicking on a file and choosing Open With, and selecting the program you want to use. Windows 10 doesn’t make it easy for power users to override this list. App developers provide information about supported file extensions and protocols when they submit the app to the store. Windows won’t let you open arbitrary files with apps installed from the Microsoft Store unless it knows the app can handle the file type.
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