Chrome blocked writing .lnk files directly
.km-app-index folder inside your chosen folder and double-click Make Shortcuts.bat — or paste this into PowerShell:.km-app-index folder inside your chosen folder and double-click Make Shortcuts.bat — or paste this into PowerShell:Search every app installed on this PC and drop a shortcut on your Desktop with one click. Browsers can't read the Start Menu or Program Files, so a small PowerShell indexer does the scanning once — after that everything happens right here.
Pick your Desktop folder. The indexer and its cache live in a hidden .km-app-index sub-folder there, and new shortcuts land in this folder.
Waiting for a folder…
I wrote Index My Apps.bat into your folder. Double-click it — a console window scans your Start Menu, installed programs and Store apps (30–90 seconds), then closes.
.km-app-index.Chrome wouldn't let me write a .bat file, so run the indexer from PowerShell instead. Press Win, type PowerShell, open it and paste:
Type any part of an app's name, then hit Enter or the Create button. Tick several apps to make a batch of shortcuts at once.