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a desktop flow shortcut execution error

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Posted on by eric_chen 8
As shown in the figure, try to run the generated shortcut displays an error message, but it runs normally within the PAD.
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    stampcoin 5,166 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    What version did you install ?
    can you try it in the command  ?
     
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Power Automate Desktop\dotnet\PAD.Console.Host.exe" "ms-powerautomate:/console/flow/run?workflowName=[workflowName]"
     
    Please refer to this article for debugging.
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    eric_chen 8 on at
    @stampcoin , Thank you so much for your guidance! It seems the shortcut automatically generated by the PAD system was just a URL, and my computer didn’t execute it automatically. However, I manually created a shortcut using ‘PAD.Console.Host.exe’ as the target, and now it works perfectly. Thanks again for your help!

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