{"id":18016,"date":"2022-04-06T03:22:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T03:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=18016"},"modified":"2022-04-06T03:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T03:22:14","slug":"create-app-execution-alias-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/create-app-execution-alias-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Way to Create App Execution Alias in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default, Windows 11 allows you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/enable-or-disable-app-execution-aliases-in-windows-11\/\">enable Execution Aliases for UWP apps<\/a> only. Previously we&#8217;ve covered how to create aliases for any programs using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/create-execution-aliases-for-specific-apps-in-windows-11\/\">a registry tweak<\/a>. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you another way to create App Execution Alias using Command Prompt in Windows 11.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Create App Execution Alias Using Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\nTo get started, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-command-prompt-in-windows-11\/\">open the Command Prompt<\/a> as administrator. Next, use the <strong>mklink<\/strong> command to create a symbolic link which points to the executable file of your target application. Remember to replace <code>alias_name<\/code> with your desired alias.<\/p>\n<p><code>mklink %LOCALAPPDATA%\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\alias_name.exe \"the_full_path_of_your_executable_file\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mklink.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mklink.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mklink-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-file-explorer-in-windows-11\/\">Open File Explorer<\/a> and type the following location in the address bar and press Enter. You&#8217;ll see the newly-created symbolic link which works almost the same as the other app aliases.<br \/>\n<code>%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/app-execution-alias-folder.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/app-execution-alias-folder.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/app-execution-alias-folder-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Now, you can use the new alias to start your program directly from the Run dialog box, Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/use-app-alias-in-run-command.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/use-app-alias-in-run-command.png 399w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/use-app-alias-in-run-command-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, Windows 11 allows you to enable Execution Aliases for UWP apps only. Previously we&#8217;ve covered how to create aliases for any programs using a registry tweak. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you another way to create App Execution Alias using Command Prompt in Windows 11. How to Create App Execution Alias Using Command [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4713],"tags":[4838,4847],"class_list":["post-18016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-app-execution-aliases-windows-11","tag-create-app-execution-alias-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18016"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18026,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016\/revisions\/18026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}