Solved How can I find the location of Apps on Win 11.

BaJohn · Oct 29, 2021

Basically what the title says.
On Win 10 just right click the App and use the 'Open File Location'.
That option is not available anymore - Is there another way to do it?

z3r010 · Oct 29, 2021

At a quick look, just type the name of the app in search and you can do it like this.

tomdsr · Oct 29, 2021

z3r010 said:
At a quick look, just type the name of the app in search and you can do it like this.

View attachment 11786

And also:

BaJohn · Oct 29, 2021

Don't know if this will be readable

tomdsr · Oct 29, 2021

Nope, just a bit too small even zooming in

BaJohn · Oct 29, 2021

This is better

Ghot · Oct 29, 2021

I'm not on Win 11 at the moment, but can't you just open File Explorer and search the C:\ drive for notepad.exe

TigerTom · Oct 29, 2021

BaJohn said:
Is there another way to do it?

A complete list of installed Apps including their directory will be displayed by running the command
~~get-appx-package~~ get-appxpackage (corrected upon Ghot's hint)
in a Powershell.

Most of the Apps are located under
C:\Windows\SystemApps
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps

BaJohn · Oct 29, 2021

Ghot said:
I'm not on Win 11 at the moment, but can't you just open File Explorer and search the C:\ drive for notepad.exe

Yes I tried that - very slow, returns 10 items 8 of which are notepad.exe.
Want to do this for various items and it is tedious and may pick wrong item.
From the above reply it should work on my machine and obviously doesn't at the moment.
My Win 11 was built yesterday as a 'System Reset' not a 'Clean install' - could there be some hangover problem that is causing this?

Ghot · Oct 29, 2021

The powershell command is... get-appxpackage

No 2nd hyphen

Ghot · Oct 29, 2021

BaJohn said:
Yes I tried that - very slow, returns 10 items 8 of which are notepad.exe.
Want to do this for various items and it is tedious and may pick wrong item.
From the above reply it should work on my machine and obviously doesn't at the moment.
My Win 11 was built yesterday as a 'System Reset' not a 'Clean install' - could there be some hangover problem that is causing this?

Whenever I install an OS there are certain programs I want to find the location so I can create a shortcut to that location.
Most of the common ones will be in C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32

Also, I just Google what I want. Like... where is task manager in Windows 11?
Google is a lot faster than Windows search. :)

BaJohn · Oct 29, 2021

Some apps have the location displayed, but not all.
Maybe this is related to the access to the C:\Program Files\WindowsApps folder is restricted.

BaJohn · Oct 29, 2021

Ghot said:
Whenever I install an OS there are certain programs I want to find the location so I can create a shortcut to that location.

Absolutely, and I put them in a folder on the desktop for easy access.

Ghot said:
Most of the common ones will be in C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32

and some I thought in C:\Windows\SysWOW64

BaJohn · Oct 29, 2021

TigerTom said:
A complete list of installed Apps including their directory will be displayed by running the command
get-appx-package
in a Powershell.

I'm not a Powershell person - I can redirected to a file, but is there something like pipe to grep in Linux?

Amended:-
Apologies this is all to complicated - the file created from the command above includes 1 entry for 'notepad', instead of the 8 for notepad.exe from the C: drive search. So this is not a route I wish to go down.