You can't create a desktop shortcut for the new Minecraft Microsoft Launcher. You can only ping it in the Task Bar. Also, searching for the folder where is it to create it from there doesn't work beacuse that folder is protected.
(It force me to select a version, not exactly 1.17.1)
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