August 20, 20205 yr It should be easy, I know, but where is the location of mfs,exe, or whatever it's called. The installation did not create a desktop icon. Doesn't appear to be in program files. Also do I need to run the program as administrator? Thanks
August 20, 20205 yr In gamepass I had the icon on the left hand side of their launcher. If you click on it an option was move to desktop. Brendon Isaac
August 20, 20205 yr Author ahh, sorry, I am not familiar with gamepass. I can pin the the sim to the task bar, but I cannot enable properties,
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October 25, 20205 yr I'm not using gamepasss, I bought the game outright from Amazon. I can't see any way to launch it other than launching the Store app and launching from there. Surely there has to be a way to put an icon on my desktop and taskbar. But how?
October 25, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, rhadkins2002 said: I'm not using gamepasss, I bought the game outright from Amazon. I can't see any way to launch it other than launching the Store app and launching from there. Surely there has to be a way to put an icon on my desktop and taskbar. But how? Check this thread out: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_store-winpc/how-to-create-desktop-shortcut-for-apps-from/758e190e-2101-49e7-bd63-163d461cac90 and this article: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/5328/windows-10-tip-create-shortcuts-for-universal-apps But I purchased MSFS from Windows Store, not from Amazon. I was able to place the MSFS app on my desktop such that I don't have to launch Windows Store to play MSFS. i5-12400, RTX 3060 Ti, 32 GB RAM
October 25, 20205 yr I found a solution on a YouTube video that works great. Type CTRL-R type shell:appsfolder When that window opens, scroll down to Microsoft Flight Simulator then you can drag a shortcut onto your desktop and/or add a link to your taskbar. Easy-Peazy.
October 25, 20205 yr On 8/20/2020 at 12:22 PM, mikegrr said: ahh, sorry, I am not familiar with gamepass. I can pin the the sim to the task bar, but I cannot enable properties, to add an icon to taskbar right click on the taskbar icon that appears while the app is running and select "pin to task bar" to get properties of a program or "run as administrator" on any taskbar icon 1. right click on the icon on the taskbar 2. right click a second time, this time on the name of the program that appears in the pop up menu
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