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An application can be directly activated by calling IApplicationActivationManager::ActivateApplication() with its Application User Model ID, also known as AppUserModelId or AUMID. For example, let's use a package with this fragment: This package's full name is . The suffix is the publisher ID derived from the package's publisher. Its packag...

We often talk about "running an application", "launching an app", or "starting an app". This conjures up visions of spinning up a new process, giving the application life. For packaged applications, Windows has a specific term for bringing an application to life: activation. Bringing a packaged process to life involves more than ordinary unpacka...

As previously discussed, we can divide processes into the two broad categories of packaged vs unpackaged, based on if the process HAS or LACKS package identity. Packaged processes can be divided into three broad categories: All three have package identity, but they make different tradeoffs between compatibility and modern packaged behavior....