pin file to taskbar?

Hello Hamilton,

You can drag and drop a .vbs file to the taskbar, but it will pin it in the jump list of wscript.exe instead.

If you wanted a separate icon, then you will have to pin it in a folder as a toolbar instead.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

hamilton said:

Is it possible to pin to taskbar a file?
I would like to pin to the taskbar a script.

I can put it inside a folder and pin it though I would like to know if it possible to pin it
as a file.

As much as I know it seems that it is possible...

It is possible, i have done it with my batch file, i will try my best to explain:

1. Pin a program to the taskbar
2. go to

Code:

C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\

3. Right click the program you just pinned and click properties
4. Change the target: to the location\file (e.g. c:\Test\JDobbsy1987.bat)
and Change the start in: to the location\ (e.g. c:\Test\)
5. Click OK and now when you click that program you pinned to the task bar it will run the script.

Note* when you change the target and start in, you will notice that there is a short cut option below them, if you click in that box and type a letter e.g. s you will see that it changes to CTRL + ALT + S, This means you will be able run the script by clicking the icon or by pressing CTRL + ALT + S,

Hope this helps

Regards,
JDobbsy1987

Hi Hamilton, If you can find a way to launch your script from the command line with the explicit expression of the associated EXE program + your non exe string, I bet you can do it using a shortcut with the equivalent of that command-line string.

I think the Taskbar (and Startmenu) Pinning, is an area that is still in the pioneering phase. The "pinned-to-taskbar" objects seem to be as different a paradigm as "Shortcuts" when they first appeared.

I have a great fondness for batch files, and I am still struggling to get my essential list "pinned". But it is getting there, after exploring a ton of the posts/tutorials on this forum, Microsoft, the rest of the Internet, and quite a few hours of personal experimentation.

I think I see a dependence on ".exe" files for the purpose of pinning, which strikes me as silly, but there could well be a purpose (e.g. security?) that is just beyond my level of understanding. Whatever, every single item that I have been able to pin has in its properties target, SomethingOrOther.EXE

I have also observed:
1) I cannot pin a data file, but I can pin the command to launch that file from its assoc. .EXE file (cannot pin xxx.HTML, but I can pin "...\Chrome.EXE xxx.HTML...")
2) I cannot pin a folder, but I can pin "explorer.exe D:\MyFolder"
3) I cannot pin a Batch file, but I can pin "CMD.EXE /c (/k,... etc) MyLittleProgram.BAT"
4) When I edit the properties on a Pinned program, (e.g. the icon) it may not stick, but if I make a pinnable shortcut on the desktop, then change its icon, then pin it, I get the desired icon.
5) Frequently, when I have created one of these little non-mainstream pinned items, when it is clicked, it creates a "ghost" object on the taskbar with an unusual icon, rather than the expected "stacking" where I clicked.

Just my fumbling results. If anyone finds a Microsoft "Guide to Pinning" I would love to know about it.