How to add a protected exe to the list?

[bervel]

Hi, did anyone manage to get around how to add a protected exe to the list of apps? MSFS purchased via Windows store would be one such example. If you try to select the exe file with the config GUI ("+" ...) you get a Windows "No permissions ..." pop-up and you're not able to add it to the list.

[nefarius]

What is a "protected exe" even? Do you mean a UWP/MS Store app? If so, those are not supported.

[bervel]

I mean MSFS for example, like I noted originally. I'm pretty sure Microsoft Flight Simulator is not an UWP app, even if I did buy it via Microsoft Store.

If I've checked the advanced security properties of FlightSimulator.exe and there is a special condition set for it for "Users" group: WIN://SYSAPPID Contains "Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb...". I think that's the thing that's blocking the selection via Hidhide GUI client. I can't remove this condition manually and even if I did, I'm affraid it might cause problems.

[nefarius]

Sounds like an UWP app to me, which is not supported.

[bervel]

Look mate, if you're just trying to get rid of me - fine. But please don't ask me to pretend that MSFS, game fo the year, 1,4 million sales on Steam, one of the most HW demanding games is some kind of a portable UWP app.

[nefarius]

Why would it being an UWP app imply that it is somehow on the level of a mobile app? It is not, and IDK why the sudden shift in tone was necessary. UWP applications are not lesser or inferior to traditional Win32 executables, however they run on an architecture that is not supported by HH's core design and can not be configured, end of story. That's all there is about it.

[nefarius]

Here, took me 3 seconds on a search engine to check that it is in fact a UWP application.