How to get Windows Store apps onto ObjectDock

Published on March 21, 2024 By sboben In Object Desktop

I'm wondering if there's an easy way to get apps downloaded from the Windows store, onto ObjectDock. Generally apps appear in the dock when you open the app, and you can pin them to the dock from there, but apps downloaded from the Windows store, Facebook Messenger for example, do not appear to work that way and they're stored in a hidden, inaccessible folder so you can't just create a link to them. Is there a work-around to this?

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basj

on Mar 21, 2024

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sdrohan

on Mar 21, 2024

quoting post

That is still the case with Modern (MS Store) Apps:

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

sboben

on Mar 22, 2024

Can you try that with Facebook Messenger? I'm hoping you have some insight into why that particular app will not appear in ObjectDock, because yeah, I'd do it that way if it appeared there.

basj

on Mar 22, 2024

sboben

reply 3

Can you try that with Facebook Messenger? I'm hoping you have some insight into why that particular app will not appear in ObjectDock, because yeah, I'd do it that way if it appeared there.

Strangely, Messenger don't appear as running program on OD. So it can't be pin to OD. But it still can be pin to taskbar.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

davyandjane

on Mar 23, 2024

To make a shortcut of Microsoft store go to start-all apps-then right click on the app-make shortcut to desktop.Then put it in a folder somewhere on your computer, you need to keep that shortcut,then drag onto the dock.This works with most of the apps.

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