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Discontinued, but Universal Windows Programs (UWPs) are not supported.

Open ghost opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

The program ignores all UWPs. The ICP might count but it's not actually the Win10 Settings panel. What you probably don't know is that UWPs have URL protocols. Here are some examples:

Settings: ms-settings:// Windows Store: ms-windows-store://

Even CONTROL.EXE (the actual Control Panel) is unsupported.

ghost avatar Jan 12 '21 08:01 ghost

I figured out a way to do it with UWP's. It's kind of a pain, but it works.

  1. Create a folder. Easiest to just put it in C, but wherever works.
  2. Make a shortcut for the UWP in that folder. See this link.
  3. Create a ps1 file in that folder as well. Paste this in: Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Path\To\Shortcut"
  4. Open the start menu folder (win+r, type shell:start menu
  5. Create a folder in Programs
  6. Create a shortcut file with this as the target: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Path\To\ps1"
  7. This will show up in the Start Menu under the folder you created - pin it to start
  8. Now you can finally edit it in TileIconifier

There will be a bit of a delay, but it works.

ActualBest avatar Mar 01 '21 23:03 ActualBest

Update: I just found out that though they don't show up in the main list, you can go to Utilities -> Custom Shortcut Manager, and create a shortcut there. This will be detected by the main program

ActualBest avatar Mar 02 '21 02:03 ActualBest

Hey, yeah you can add shortcuts to URIs from Utilities -> Custom Shortcut Manager. If I find a list of common ones I can add some quick-picks or similar, however actually finding them when they're pinned is proving hard to find. If anyone happens to know a way to do this I'd be happy to add them in, but as they aren't standard .lnk files it's not something the utility will just pick up unfortunately.

Jonno12345 avatar Apr 25 '21 23:04 Jonno12345