I want to put the new windowsapp calculator on the desktop. After alot of searching, I found out that it's located in Program Files/WindowsApps and I had to change ownership and permissions in order to be able to view the folder. After doing all that, I couldn't find the name of the application.

In the older versions of windows, it used to be easy to find out information on an app by just right clicking it and then clicking on "properties".

Anyway - anyone know the name of the new calculator app? (Not calc.exe - which is the old one.)

Right click on a blank area of the desktop, and click on New and Shortcut.

Now copy  and paste the following code in the blank space of  Type the location of the item:

explorer.exe shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App

Click Next to continue. Type a name for this Shortcut (Calculator). You can use any icon by right clicking on, select Properties and opting for Change Icon

Hi,

When press Windows Key and F key, we can search for calculator, then we will find the shortcut, by right click it, we can choose to open file location, the location is the shortcut localtion, we can open its property to know the target of the shortcut, the target is:

%windir%\system32\calc.exe

Regards,

Yan Li