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If I hit the windows key, type notepad and hit enter, it'll launch a new notepad instance.

If I already had a notepad instance open, however, it'll revert to that.

Is it possible to simply have Windows launch a new notepad instance every time I select it from the metro menu?

Reason: It's most intuitive (for me personally, at least) to look to the taskbar to revert to a running app, and to use the metro/start menu to launch a new one.

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  • You can also SHIFT+Click on the already open application's icon in the taskbar to open a new instance. Works since Vista.
    – KarmaEDV
    Oct 2, 2015 at 8:33

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Found the answer, can be changed (permanently) with a registry change:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\Launcher

DesktopAppsAlwaysLaunchNewInstance DWORD

0 = Disable
1 = Enable

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/49581-desktop-apps-always-open-new-instance-start-screen.html

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