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Windows 10 taskbar pinned items exploring the exe folder instead launching the application
I've upgraded my Windows-7_home_premium to windows-10_Home.
Everything looks fine, but the items pinned to the taskbar are opening the folder which contains the target app instead of launching the ...
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Ways to Recover Lost/Closed "Pinned" Tabs in Chrome?
I know this was TECHNICALLY an already-answered issue awhile back - and then was subsequently brought to life again briefly - but I have been experiencing this issue (only twice, but I had about 15 ...
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Maximum # of Start Menu Pinned Programs
I am running Windows 7 Professional and I just got a new display with a whole lot more screen space (greater resolution) and I am having a little, rather ridiculous, problem.
I have only have pinned ...
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How to Delete Application Jump List in Windows Start Menu
Does anyone know how to delete the MRU list for Excel in the start menu? (See screen capture.) I think the list on my machine is corrupted because I cannot delete/unpin anything on it. Reinstalling ...
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How did I pin Chrome to my Win7 TaskBar multiple times?
I have seen many many questions, including Pin same app multiple times in Windows 7, but they are all asking how to do something I have already done. I certainly did not use one of the solutions in ...
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Update paths of pinned files in Windows 7
I'm trying to find the locations of the pinned files so I can update the shortcuts to a different drive letter, but I can't find where they are saved. Can anyone help? I'm looking specifically for the ...
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How can I pin a batch file and an internet shortcut to the taskbar in Windows 7?
I have two files on a computer with Windows 7 installed on it. The first file is a batch file. The second file is an internet shortcut.
How can I pin each of them to the taskbar?
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Keyboard Shortcut for Frequent from Pinned program
I got to know the pinned programs in taskbar and using it for Excel, Outlook, Chrome. I have put frequent files/urls to those pinned programs which I will get by right clicking the pinned program from ...
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Mapped Drives pinning - when I pin a second location in the same path/server, the first disappears
When trying to pin multiple mapped drives (whose locations are on the same server) by dragging them from the Explorer window to the taskbar icon, the first drive pins properly. When I drag the second,...
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Missing running applications and pinned application icons from taskbar in Windows 7
Today when I was using the computer as usual, the running applications and pinned application icons which normally appear in the taskbar were gone suddenly. At first, I thought a restart will help but ...
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Setup multiple chrome profiles and pin them to Windows 7 taskbar with different chrome icons [duplicate]
Please, help me regain my sanity.
Can someone write a step-by-step guide on how to set up multiple chrome profiles on a single Windows 7 machines, in a way that will allow me to pin multiple ...
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Pin Icons to right side of Windows Taskbar?
How can I pin a program/folder to the right side of the taskbar, instead of the left side?
I'm using Windows 7.
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Open file with a batch file pinned to the taskbar
How do you get a file opened by a batch file pinned to the taskbar?
In XP you could just drag your batch file onto the quicklaunch section of the taskbar, then any file you drop on that icon would be ...
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Is it possible to create new category of pinned items for a taskbar shortcut like explorer?
When you right click Explorer on the taskbar a list of pinned with 2 categories is shown: Pinned and Most recently used. (I actually disabled the last one)
I was wondering if this is strictly build ...
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Why doesn't it appear to be possible to have multiple pinned taskbar buttons for multiple Chrome profiles?
I have two Chrome profiles set up using the --user-data-dir=<path> argument and I want to create two separate pinned task bar buttons for these two profiles (this is obviously on Windows 7). ...
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Why do pinned items show up twice in the Windows 7 start menu?
My start menu has two entries for Firefox. I pinned Firefox to the start menu. One shortcut is from the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs folder, and the other from C:\Users\\...
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Can you change the icon of a pinned IE 9 web application? And how do you do it?
In IE 9 you have the ability to click and drag an open browser tab to the Windows 7 taskbar and pin the shortcut to the taskbar.
This has the effect of creating a pseudo-application experience where ...
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Why latest emacs version don't support Windows 7 taskbar?
I have downloaded latest emacs for Windows here, but starting it on Windows 7 shows a taskbar icon that ignores right-click and so can't be pinned I have searched Google and found a lot of bug reports ...
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Pin same app multiple times in Windows 7
I use some programs with command line arguments and like to have shortcuts for launching those programs with those arguments. For example, I keep several Firefox profiles around and like to specify ...
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How to restore jump list for Windows Explorer pinned taskbar icon?
I pinned Windows Explorer's icon to my taskbar months ago, and all worked fine, including jump lists. Note: I changed the default Explorer's folder using the usual trick of changing the GUID in the ...
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Windows 7: Cannot pin application to the taskbar
Note: Since the superuser is also a wiki, here is the
solution to a problem i had. Others will have the same problem too.
"I cannot pin an application to the taskbar in Windows 7."
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How do I get rid of the extra options on a pinned program on the start menu
In Windows 7 when I pin certain programs, somehow there is something that allows them to have a sub menu. Examples of this are both Firefox (Enter private browsing) and Chrome (New window, New ...
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How to group pinned and running programs in the taskbar on Windows 7?
I have started to use Windows 7. Programs can be "pinned" to the Taskbar. Internet Exporer was pinned there after installation, and when I start Internet Explorer no other icon is added to the Taskbar....
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Where is the list of pinned start menu and taskbar items stored in Windows 7
What is the location of pinned start menu and taskbar items?
Is this list a registry, or a folder somewhere?
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Disappearing Windows Explorer pinned items
This has happened twice now in three months:
After rebooting, ALL the pinned items from my Windows Explorer taskbar jumplist are gone. Also, recent items from Windows Explorer are much fewer, only ...
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Virtual desktops with custom taskbar pinned applications [closed]
Is there a windows 7 application that enables to pin different taskbar applications by virtual desktop?
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Windows 7: enabling navigation of subfolders in pinned Start Menu folders
I'm just about to move from Windows XP to Windows 7, and I'm struggling with some of the interface changes.
In XP, I was able to throw a folder intoC:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menuand ...
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sal3.dll is missing when launching a file pinned to an Open Office app
In Windows 7 you can pin a document to a program in the taskbar. I pinned an .xls document to Calc, but when I click on the shortcut I get the following error:
soffice.bin - System Error
The program ...
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How to I add command line arguments (parameters) for pinned applications on Windows 7?
On Windows 7 i'm no longer able to change the command line arguments for "pinned" taskbar launcher.
How can we workaround this problem in order to be able to start applications with parameters on ...
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