Quick Link

Quick Link is an intuitive and easy to understand utility whose main function resides in helping you create shortcuts for Metro apps, so you can launch them as you with would regular programs, by double-clicking their desktop icons.

The tool displays a very simple and accessible user interface, its straightforward functionality being easy to handle by anyone, novices included. However, some documentation might have been useful.

The main window of Quick Link lists all of the Store apps that it can detect as installed on your Windows 8 or Windows 10 system, allowing you to choose the ones you wish to target.

The latest editions of the Windows operating system have introduced Store or Metro apps, which can be accessed from the start screen of the computer, via a dedicated icon. While the OS allows you to pin regular programs’ shortcuts to the start menu, the reverse is not available.

However, you can choose to create shortcuts for your favorite Metro apps right on your desktop, making them much easier to launch. Using Quick Link, you can swiftly determine how many Store apps are on your system and choose the ones you wish to run from your desktop.

Moreover, the tool lets you define a custom icon for it, for make it stand out. Should you ignore this customization option, Quick Link will automatically assign all shortcuts the same ‘folder’ image, as it is not capable to extracting the targeted utility’s icon on its own.

In summary, Quick Link is a useful and effective software solution which comes to the rescue of those of you who work best with desktop shortcuts, as it enables you to create them for Metro apps, a feature otherwise unavailable in the latest editions of the Microsoft OS.