Opening Start 10 Universal app link in ObjectDock

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having issues.

Object Dock is not supported for Windows 10

while you will find some features working you'll find some don't.

AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

When you get to ther Launch.exe did you try to right click on it go to "Send to"/desktop(create shortcut. Then drag the shortcut into OD. or if you have it hiding open config. in OD to add.

All three — pin to start, pin to taskbar and send to desktop shortcut — have the same link path, the one noted above. The path works with all three. But, if I use the link with OD, the Windows error message is the same for all three: it can't find the path. A problem with right-clicking on Launch. exe is that even if I pin/send somewhere, it still needs the remainder of the path to find the app and OD won't find Launch without the complete path info. Odd to say the least, but I don't see it being a conflict between Win 10 and OD given a valid path because Launch knows how to follow the remainder of the path (I've been unable to determine where the app info Launch uses is actually stored). Right now I'm using taskbar pin but OD would help keep that to a minimum of icons.

Have you already tried creating a shortcut to Pandora on your Desktop and then editing the item in OD so it launches the shortcut file (.lnk file) on your Desktop instead of Launch.exe directly?

Well, I'm using the Target link in Properties (right-click on Pandora in Universal Apps), which are also in Start and pin to desktop/taskbar. They are identical. Normally I would simply link to Pandora app, but it doesn't seem to have created a location for executable in Program Files or PF x86. I looked in AppData but it's not in Local or Roaming either. I searched for an executable on C drive but there wasn't one among results. I'm probably stuck with taskbar...better than nothing.

UWP Apps are NOT like Win32 applications at all, which is why docks that haven't been updated to work with Windows 10 have trouble with them. There is no '.exe' to run and you won't find UWP apps in Program Files either.

There might also be other issues at hand here, such as the Windows 32 to 64 bit file redirection, which would explain the 'Not found' error message. This is why I suggested launching the shortcut file itself from OD instead of trying to launch the target. This way OD can simply tell windows 'here, run this .lnk' file - and Windows (hopefully) takes care of the rest.

If you don't understand what I mean by 'running the shortcut (.lnk) file itself', please let me know and I can explain how to do it.

I would absolutely appreciate your delineating running the shortcut (.lnk) file itself. It might be something I have another name for? Thank you for the kind offer to do so.

Ed

Ok, see those shortcuts on your Desktop with the little arrows so you know they are shortcuts to files instead of the actual files? They too are files themselves, shortcut files that end with a .lnk file extension.

So, if you drag Pandora from the left panel of the Windows Start Menu onto your Desktop, it will create a shortcut to Pandora on the Desktop named 'Pandora', right? This shortcut is really a file on your Desktop folder called 'Pandora.lnk', e.g.; C:\Users\<Your User Name>\Desktop\Pandora.lnk

Unfortunately you cannot just add it to ObjectDock either by drag & drop or via the Browse button in the right click menu Add Item option, as ObjectDock will automatically resolve the shortcut for you so the entry in the dock points to the target file itself instead of the .lnk file.

Sigh. So I was going to say you could *type* the full path name to the lnk file into the ObjectDock Dock Entry Properties dialog (e.g.; C:\Users\<Your User Name>\Desktop\Pandora.lnk) but I just tried it here and it seems that even when you *type it* ObjectDock automatically resolves the shortcut so it points to the target instead. As such my suggestion is not going to work.  

Sorry for keeping your hopes up.

No problem!!! We both learned from this.

My hopes over the years with Windows, starting with 3.0 and every version since, is that patience and forbearance are essential. After getting over disappointments, I learn to accept change as inevitable...it always is.

Cheers

Sorry to contradict JcRabbit.

Here I can drag every app icon from the Win10 start menu to my desktop, and drag the resulting link icon to my ObjectDock bar. No resolving of the path takes place here, and the app starts as it should.

Since the Desktop is just another folder, I have created a special folder on my drive for these link files to keep my desktop clean.

Hope this helps

Actually it was very helpful! The part that made the difference was dragging desktop shortcut to OD directly rather than using link within the shortcut to create OD shortcut. It hadn't occurred to me to drag shortcuts to OD itself. Always something to learn. Thanks so much!

Ed

Not a problem, glad that works!

Guess OD will only resolve the shortcut if it can do so, otherwise it will point to the shortcut itself.

Glad to help.