This does not work for the Windows 8 style apps that only run in the non-desktop environment.
Here is how you can quickly put a shortcut icon on your Windows 8 desktop for any installed desktop program. Windows 8 offers easy options to place a tile on the Start screen, “ Pin to Start”, and to put an icon on the desktop taskbar, “ Pin to taskbar”, but the method to create a desktop shortcut is not obvious at all.
