Adding Windows 8/10 game apps

[chyatt6385]

I searched the forums first, and didn't see an answer . . . I've been trying this evening to add some game apps to my collection database, but I can't find where the application path is to enter them. Does anyone know of an easy way to do this? Or IS there any easy way to do this? Or is this something where I just need to keep digging? I can't even rightly recall exactly where in the directory path the apps are found. An import function to do this would be nice.

[DOS76]

I have a post on here explaining how to add the games but I don't have time to look it up to reference it right now.

[CriticalCid]

Here you go: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/troubleshooting/how-to-add-windows-store-games-e-g-forza-apex

[FistyDollars]

I followed this guide, and it's worked just fine.

[chyatt6385]

Thanks to all the replies. First, I tried FistyDollars idea. The instructions opened up an explorer window that showed my Quick Links menu and not specifically my apps. Perhaps something changed in Windows 10? Perhaps I should have specifically asked for Windows 10 help in the OP instead of including Win8, thinking the two essentially operate the same way. Sorry, that was my fault for not being specific enough. Using CriticalCid's advice, I went to ConcreteLlama's post about how he got his game there. This was a bit more helpful; I found the actual .exe files to the games I wanted to enter into my database. I tested it with first Star Wars: Tiny Death Star (I installed it under Win8 before Disney killed it) and Age of Empires: Castle Siege. In both cases, after entering the entire path in the Application Path box, when I attempted to execute them through LaunchBox I got an error dialogue: "An error occurred while trying to launch the game. This application can only run in the context of an app container." Again, thanks for the help; if anyone can think of any other ways to get past this challenge, I'm open to suggestions.

[chyatt6385]

I found the thread I think DOS76 was referring to (it was buried pretty deep) and found a kludge that works based on what he said. Instead of putting all the .lnk files directly on the desktop and clutter it up, I created a separate folder on my desktop called "Store Apps" and started putting the .lnks in there. I already had a link to Tiny Death Star on my Classic Shell start menu, so that was easy. I put a link to AoE:CS in the folder, and it works as well. Now I just have to manually put links to the rest of my Windows Store games there. But at least I know it can be done, and that's a good thing.