Where can I find flightsimulator.exe on my D drive? I would like to make a shortcut!

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You’re changing the properties of (size 0 bytes):

C:\Users\_name_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\FlightSimulator.exe

Which is different than (size ~270 MB):

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.15.8.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\FlightSimulator.exe

Now it could be this d.umm.y .exe of 0 bytes is a “proxy” allowing such manipulations, i.e. Windows is “exposing” this d.umm.y so that other Windows specific settings like “full screen optimizations” can still be user managed.

But it is easier to directly do it on the original .exe just to be sure:

  1. open File Explorer and type the path above in the path field
  2. right click on FlightSimulator.exe
  3. change compatibility settings

Or just manually edit the registry:

And actually it might be of no use at all: