Minecraft Bedrock Edition - Create new shortcut on desktop

Leon van der Nest

November 27, 2020 17:01

Hi,

How would one create a new shortcut for Minecraft, There is no icon in the Start Menu to drag to the desktop

or allow or to pin to taskbar (the missing icon preventing this simple action)

and I don't know the Minecraft default install directory, or the executable that would allow me to create a new desktop icon from scratch.

Can you please assist

Regards

Leon

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  James Mage

  November 27, 2020 22:04

  That game is distributed as a Microsoft Store app. These apps only run using Windows 8 or 10's new interfaces, which are tied to the Store's API. Thus, Magic Desktop is unable to execute these apps. The only kind of software that you can approve on Magic Desktop are the traditional desktop executable products which use .exe files and generate .lnk shortcuts which Magic Desktop can see and integrate into its program listings.
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  Jefhanson

  January 24, 2021 02:32

  Is it possible to create a script (or something similar) that can be used to launch these applications. It is going to hinder all the Steam ones as well.

   

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  James Mage

  January 24, 2021 22:54

  There is no possible circumvention to these limitations where they are imposed. Similarly, if these games cannot be executed by no other interface but Steam's then that's not going to be usable through Magic Desktop - by Steam's own stipulation. Only programs which are freely executed from the Windows desktop, linking from an .exe file can be approved into Magic Desktop via their respective shortcut files which you can place on the Desktop or Start Menu.

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