wilspeak
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Hello Everyone, I use an application called (Colornote) on my Windows 10 PC. While I can't seem to find it on my computer, when I go to the Microsoft Store and go to the Colornote page it says the application is already installed on my PC. I then can open the application up through the MS Store page. My question is how can I create a shortcut for that application or find the application thumbnail so that I can launch the application without having to sign into the MS Store every time that I need to use it? Thank You in advance.
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Does the Colornote app show up in W10 Programs and Features? You can access this by right-clicking on the W10 Start Flag on the lower left of your W10 desktop/taskbar. If your app does NOT show up in Programs and Features, then it's not getting into the W10 registry correctly, and the registry is blocking the installation, or the app is just poorly coded as you mention. Since you have multiple computers to try, the first thing I would do, is to use a computer where you have not yet installed this app. MAKE CERTAIN THAT YOU HAVE DISABLED YOUR PRIMARY AV (ANTIVIRUS) PROGRAM, INCLUDING WEB SHIELD, E-MAIL SHIELD, AND ANY FIREWALL THAT'S ENABLED!!
No one has yet mentioned this most basic procedure. Installing new apps on Windows PCs without turning off your AV has been a thing since 2003; that's 14 years now. Without doing that, your AV (such as built-in Windows Defender, Norton, Avast, McAfee, Trend Micro, etc.) will automatically block ANY new app from installing into Windows of any version (from W2k-W10) because the heuristics detect and block massive changes to the Registry. Very simple, and very well documented all over the Internet.
If you do this on a computer or computers that have never have your app installed on them, and they still don't install, then yes, I would be leaning to poor coding of the app.
Best of luck,
<<<<BIGBEARJEDI>>>>
No one has yet mentioned this most basic procedure. Installing new apps on Windows PCs without turning off your AV has been a thing since 2003; that's 14 years now. Without doing that, your AV (such as built-in Windows Defender, Norton, Avast, McAfee, Trend Micro, etc.) will automatically block ANY new app from installing into Windows of any version (from W2k-W10) because the heuristics detect and block massive changes to the Registry. Very simple, and very well documented all over the Internet.
If you do this on a computer or computers that have never have your app installed on them, and they still don't install, then yes, I would be leaning to poor coding of the app.
Best of luck,
<<<<BIGBEARJEDI>>>>
bochane
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But as usual, our more profesional friend BBJ has a point here. I use MS Defender on the test machine and it was functional during the test.
But, holy cow, it is not for the cowards, installing a unknown app without protection.
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It is a search utility that it far superior to Windows search.
Many times faster and more complete then the native search engine.
It can search an entire drive in a matter of seconds, it will find anything that you are looking for.
It has a variety of options that let you zero in on what you are looking for.
It's free and I've used it for years with many versions of Windows.
Agent Ransack - Download
Once it's installed it will be added to your right click menu so you just point where you want to search, click on Agent Ransack, type in what you are looking for and say go.
Mike