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Posted on by DiogoSousa 6

Hello and greetings from Portugal!

 

New here using Power Automate Desktop and trying to automate my daily flow to start working.

I'm trying to open an uwp app (Microsoft To-Do) but can't figure out how!

 

Can anyone please help?

 

Tks in advance!

Best regards,

Diogo Sousa

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    fraenK 2,125 on at

    For the run application action you can use following parameters:

    path: explorer.exe

    arguments: shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App

     

    Replace the bold text with the name of your app, see task manager -> app name -> properties -> folder name without version

  • DiogoSousa Profile Picture
    DiogoSousa 6 on at

    Hi fraenK and thanks for your quick reply!

    Just a question. 

    Using that command, it would get broken when updating Windows version or something like that?

  • fraenK Profile Picture
    fraenK 2,125 on at

    Only if the update includes significant changes to UWP system. But that's normal. You could also start the app through a link, shortcut, Windows start menu, but all of that can break with an update 😉 

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    DiogoSousa 6 on at

    And it worked peeeerfectly!

    Thanks again for the help!

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