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ruiman
 Post subject: Mail Win8
PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 11:44 am 
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From Classic Shell start menu I went to apps a dragged MAIL to my desktop for a shortcut
The shortcut does not work and mail is gone from apps a the Win 8 desktop?
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Ivo
 Post subject: Re: Mail Win8
PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 11:50 am 
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Metro shortcuts don't work by themselves. Only the start screen and the start menu know how to use them.
You need to move the shortcut back to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Application Shortcuts\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe
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ruiman
 Post subject: Re: Mail Win8
PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:44 pm 
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can you tell me how to move the shortcut?
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Ivo
 Post subject: Re: Mail Win8
PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:12 pm 
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The shortcut is a file. The desktop is a folder. So you have to move the file from one folder to another. Do you know how to do that?
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ruiman
 Post subject: Re: Mail Win8
PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:20 pm 
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I tried holding down the left mouse button and moving the shortcut back to apps but no luck
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Ivo
 Post subject: Re: Mail Win8
PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:42 pm 
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You can't move it back to the start menu. You have to move it in Explorer to this folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Application Shortcuts\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe
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ruiman
 Post subject: Re: Mail Win8
PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:49 pm 
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ok
can you tell me how to do that?
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Ivo
 Post subject: Re: Mail Win8
PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:53 pm 
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Copy this text (select with the mouse, press Ctrl+C): %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Application Shortcuts\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Press Win+E to open a new Explorer window
Press Alt+D to go to the address bar. If that doesn't work, click on the address bar
Press Ctrl+V to paste the text into the address bar. Press Enter. This will open the correct folder in Explorer
Drag the icon from your desktop into the right pane of the Explorer window
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ruiman
 Post subject: Re: Mail Win8
PostPosted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:02 pm 
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That works!!
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Gaurav
 Post subject: Re: Mail Win8
PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:17 am 
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Btw ruiman, there is a way to launch Metro apps from desktop or taskbar or ANY location using a third party free app called OblyTile. If you are interested, take a look here: http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-pin-mode ... e-taskbar/ Note that this is unrelated to and unsupported by Classic Shell and I only recommend it to assist you. Let me know if it helped.

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