Windows 10: Cortana Search is not finding portable applications
Portable Apps, or really any Programs at all can be indexed in one of two ways.
- By being located on the System Path as a
*.exe - Being within the Registry. There are several ways to accomplish this, but the easiest of these is to register the Application within App Paths
An example of this being (in PowerShell):
New-Item -Path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\myapplication.exe -Value C:\blah\myapplication.exe