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~ Need Shortcut Path Name to a few of the Metro Apps ~ Windows 8 Metro Default Apps

#1 User is offline   DosProbie 

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Posted 28 February 2013 - 07:55 PM

I have most of the metro shortcut's but I Can Not find the following 5 App shortcut names below.
this is the shortcut format that I use: %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c start "" "AppName:" && exit

bingcalender – Calendar (the wlcalendar will not work)
bingcamera – Camera
bingphotos - Photos
bingreader - Reader
bingskydrive - Skydrive

If anyone has the shortcuts to post,pm or paths I would appreciate it..
Thanks, DosProbie :D





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Posted 01 March 2013 - 03:29 AM

With StartIsBack 2.0, you may just copy shortcuts from Start Apps (right-click - Copy - go to Desktop or folder you need shortcut - Paste shortcut). :whistle:

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 09:19 AM

View PostTihiy, on 01 March 2013 - 03:29 AM, said:

With StartIsBack 2.0, you may just copy shortcuts from Start Apps (right-click - Copy - go to Desktop or folder you need shortcut - Paste shortcut). :whistle:




Thanks Tihiy, I just tried that and it copies shortcut just fine to desktop, how would I pin to Taskbar tho?

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Posted 01 March 2013 - 09:24 AM

View PostDosProbie, on 01 March 2013 - 09:19 AM, said:

Thanks Tihiy, I just tried that and it copies shortcut just fine to desktop, how would I pin to Taskbar tho?
Unfortunately, you can't (yet). Metro apps don't belong there.

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Posted 05 March 2013 - 01:01 PM

View PostTihiy, on 01 March 2013 - 09:24 AM, said:

View PostDosProbie, on 01 March 2013 - 09:19 AM, said:

Thanks Tihiy, I just tried that and it copies shortcut just fine to desktop, how would I pin to Taskbar tho?
Unfortunately, you can't (yet). Metro apps don't belong there.


Ah nice Tihiy. StartIsBack creates a shell namespace extension for Metro apps. Smart. :D Btw @OP, if you don't mind using the free OblyTile, using it we can pin a shortcut to a Metro app to the Taskbar. Here's how: http://winaero.com/b...to-the-taskbar/

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 12:06 PM

View Postxpclient, on 05 March 2013 - 01:01 PM, said:

View PostTihiy, on 01 March 2013 - 09:24 AM, said:

View PostDosProbie, on 01 March 2013 - 09:19 AM, said:

Thanks Tihiy, I just tried that and it copies shortcut just fine to desktop, how would I pin to Taskbar tho?
Unfortunately, you can't (yet). Metro apps don't belong there.


Ah nice Tihiy. StartIsBack creates a shell namespace extension for Metro apps. Smart. :D Btw @OP, if you don't mind using the free OblyTile, using it we can pin a shortcut to a Metro app to the Taskbar. Here's how: http://winaero.com/b...to-the-taskbar/


Seems to me that this ability/behavior of OblyTile might be a good future option for StartIsBack. (and/or ClassicShell :) )

EDIT: By the way, for other's convenience since it took a little bit for me to find it, the "home" location for OblyTile seems to be here, with the download page here.

Cheers and Regards

This post has been edited by bphlpt: 06 March 2013 - 12:21 PM


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Posted 06 March 2013 - 02:55 PM

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Seems to me that this ability/behavior of OblyTile might be a good future option for StartIsBack.
StartIsBack will provide it if/when it makes Modern apps belong to taskbar (like ModernMix does).

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 08:27 PM

View PostTihiy, on 06 March 2013 - 02:55 PM, said:

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Seems to me that this ability/behavior of OblyTile might be a good future option for StartIsBack.
StartIsBack will provide it if/when it makes Modern apps belong to taskbar (like ModernMix does).

I assume you mean this? That does look like neat!

Cheers and Regards

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