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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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