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Make sure you have no space after the colon. What you’ll want to do is type in – exactly as shown here – the sequence “ shell:AppsFolder“. It launches a small box without much in the way of suggestions on how to use it. There ya go, click or tap to choose the Desktop app “Run”, as highlighted above. You can pin the app to your Start tiles or, if you right click on the icon when it’s running, pin it to the TaskBar, but to create a Desktop Shortcut? For that we’re going to need to get to the Windows command line. The logical place to put this feature would be on the context menu you get when you right click on a program or app on the Start menu: I’ll step you through the process, though, so no worries. However, be warned: for this particular solution you’re going to be doing a wee bit of Windows hacking – sort of – and launching a view that isn’t usually part of a user’s account setup or configuration. But if you prefer apps to live on your Desktop as they have for the entire history of Microsoft Windows, I got your back. In fact, it’s clear from figuring out a solution that Microsoft really, really wants you to get used to the Start screen or the Win10.1 Start menu, not create Desktop shortcuts. My initial reaction to your question was “it’s easy, just right click on the program icon and choose “Create Shortcut”, but upon trying to do it myself, turn out that it’s nowhere near that easy.
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