How to know the location of an application on my Windows 11 PC?

Sometimes it happens to us that we need to know exactly where the applications installed on the computer are, either to see some of the files that are there or to proceed to eliminate an error or the application completely. And to find with more accuracy how to view these applicationswe bring you this guide that will teach you how to do it.

Where can I see all the programs that I have installed on my computer?

when we install any application on the computerthis will always be displayed in the Windows start bar to have a visualization of it, since all the programs when they are installed are always there, whether you install the Opera browser on Linux Using Snap, it will be appearing in the slash just like you do on Windows.

However, these applications can not only be found here, since these applications can also be found on the desktop, because if you do not know, some applications when installed, come with an option that is marked that will say ‘Create desktop icon’and this is why they appear on the computer’s desktop.

How to see the location of an app on my Windows 11 computer?

As we explained in the previous point, you can see the applications in the taskbar, you can move this taskbar up if you want. But, there is also a way how to see the location of the application that your computer has, in this folder you will be seeing both the program and the files related to the program.

These files will be located in a folder within a range of Subfolders that are on the computer’s hard drive, since this is where all the files of the programs installed on the computer will be located. And for this, there are several ways to access without having to search folder by folder.

With the program icon

The first option that we let you know to accurately locate the application folder is by using the same program icon. To do this, you will have to locate the application you want and right click to display the options menu, you will have to click on it in ‘Open File location’ so that the program folder you chose is opening.

From the task manager

As a second way that we can recommend you to find the location of the applications, is to go and open the Windows 11 task manager.

To do this, you can search for it in the search engine in the start menu of the computer and open it. After this, you will have to go to the ‘Details’ window and it will be a list of running programsyou will have to search for the program and right click and click on the ‘Open File Location’ option.

in the start menu

The third option that you will have available is almost the same as the previous one, that is, the way to search for all the applications and programs is almost the same, but it has a very different step. With this option, you will be able to go even faster to the folder, first type the name of the program in the start menu to see multiple available options. In these options, you will have the ‘Open File location’ option available.

Using the file explorer

Finally we have the long option, which is using the file explorer, with this option you will be able to navigate enter the different folders to find the one that corresponds to the one of the program. To do this you have to follow a sequence, first go to the Local Disk part of the computer to start.

• Inside this folder you will see two: ‘Program Files’ and ‘Program Files (X86)’.
• Either of these two folders is used to see the programs that are installed on the computer. You can choose the first one and you are seeing the folders with the name of the program you are looking for

How to change the location of a program in my Windows 11?

If you don’t like the way the program is located, you can change its location, since there are some programs that can be changed. You have the option to go to the Windows 11 Settings page and go into apps and then under Apps and Features, you’ll have an option that when click on program you can ‘Move’ be where you want.

But not only this, you can also when installing any program, choose to change the destination folder where the program will be installed, this will not affect the program as such, but you will have the possibility of having these folders simply seen and locate them faster.