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Francisco Lindor…gotta love it.

“They were custom made with Cleveland’s skyline on them. … I believe in my team. I believe in my city. And it’s cool. [They’re] cool shoes and I believe. I believe in my team. I believe in what we have, the glory is God’s. We’re just trying to do our thing.”

The whole team is definitely doing their thing.

Run Plex app (Windows 10) from Steam – or how to run a Win 10 app from a shortcut

Update 2: 18 June 2017. Added quotation marks around the command in the batch file to allow for any spaces.

Update 1: 20 NOV 2016: Added a tweak to the batch file before you make it an executable to add some compatibility with Steam and nVidia streaming.

Background: I use the Steam Link to remotely play games on my family room TV. It’s basically a glorified remote desktop/streaming device.

Wouldn’t it be great if it could play Plex remotely so I could watch movies, TV, etc? In order to do this, you have to launch the application you want to view from within Steam. Easy enough for a “traditional” x86 app (i.e. one that is the type “something.exe”) but more difficult to launch a Windows Store application. As anyone who has tried knows, they are not only hidden, but don’t launch with an executable file.

Attempt 1: I tried launching using the shortcut to the Plex app – which sort of worked.

If you want to get a shortcut to any application, Windows Store or traditional, the best way I’ve found is to open the hidden “Applications” folder and create/drag a shortcut. You can open this hidden folder by going to “Run” (shortcut: Windows key + R) and type shell:AppsFolder then hit OK (or press enter.)

I created a shortcut to the Plex app, moved it to my D: drive, and used that shortcut in Steam as a non-Steam app to launch the Plex App. Problem was, although it would launch, it would always have an error box behind it.

Attempt 2 – Et voila!: A bit more complicated, but works very well. Basically you create a batch file that runs the shortcut, and turn the batch file into an executable file.

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49ers at Bills

16 October 2016: 49ers at Bills


Note: Default resolution is 720p.

Bills at Rams

9 October 2016: Bills at Rams


Note: Default resolution is 720p.

Bills at Patriots

2 October 2016: Bills at Patriots


Bring in an IT guy…Patriots shut out at home for first time since 1993


// Alternate script to display file in the player div if original doesn’t work