You can see the Settings-based App info to the left, and the Programs and Features-based Application into at the right, in the lead-in screencap above. Otherwise, they look - and behave - identically. If it shows up under Installed Apps in Settings, it’s an app. If it shows up in Programs and Features, it’s an applicatioon. The only way you can tell if you’re running an application or app version of PowerToys is by where it lives in your Windows installation. Their 64-bit counterparts, alternatives, or replacements live in:Īpps live in their own corner of the preceding folder tree - namely:Ĭ:/Program Files/WindowsApps Distinguishing Application from App 32-bit applications (of which there are fewer and fewer, now that Windows 10 is mostly 64-bit, and Windows 11 completely 64-bit) live in: In Windows, Applications live in two primary folder trees. Let me explain later on here… Understanding PowerToys Application versus App Neither installer knows about the other, so it doesn’t clean up old stuff from “the other fork,” either. Switching from the application version to its app counterpart is also neither documented nor obvious. This led me to considering the differences between PowerToys application versus app. I spent some time this weekend switching over from the GitHub version (installs as an application) to the Store version (installs as an app). It says: PowerToys are now available in the MS Store. This has been going on for awhile, but I just recently learned about it.
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