Running Apps from the Windows Desktop
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AppWave Browser Smart App Links allow you to right-click a file that is not associated to any program on your computer, and offer you a list with apps available on AppWave to open it.
How do "Smart App Links" work?
- When you try to open a file that has not a file type associated with any program on your computer, AppWave crosses references to the file type with a database of apps on the private AppWave and the AppWave Store.
- Retrieve a list of appropriate apps that can open the file.
- It allows you to choose the app you want to use.
- AppWave Browser launches the App.
- This app will be set as default for this file type.
Use Smart App Links to open a file
- Double-click the file and the pane AppWave - File association appears.
- All the apps that can open this file will be listed.
- You can choose an application to open your file within the Local applications (apps you have running on the browser), or you can open it with the apps Available on AppWave.
- Note: If you want to permantly associate this file extension with the app, select the option: Always use the selected program to open files of this type.
- Click the app. Your file will be opened immediately if you have the app running on your browser, otherwise it will start loading.
- This app will be set as default for this file type, provided that AppWave Browser is running on the computer.
Shortcuts
The first time an app is launched, it will insert a shortcut in the Windows Start menu. In Windows 7 you can pin the app to the Windows Taskbar in the same manner as you would any other Windows application. Also, in Windows 7 Explorer, when you click a document created with an app you have run, a shortcut appears in the window.
Note: Shortcuts will no longer be available after you remove the app.