New to W7, questions about taskbar & shortcuts

First let me say, man, i love this OS! i was really hesitant since XP worked what i at least THOUGHT was well. But W7 is so much quicker and seamless. Anyways, 1st question is on XP i would drag a shortcut to the taskbar and it would then be usable and work as the original shortcut did. With 7 it doesn't wok. For example, i have a txt file that i keep on another drive and i put a shortcut to it on my taskbar. In XP i'd click it and the file would pop up as you'd expect. On 7 if i drag that txt file to the taskbar, when i click the resulting shortcut instead of the file i just get a new empty notepad. If i right click it (i THINK it was by R/clicking) then a list of various notepad files i've viewed pops up and i can choose it from there. But i just want it to be a shortcut to the particular txt file. Is there a way? second, i see shortcuts don't have the file's pathway or "address" if you will in them. I miss that for a number of reasons such as being able to tell where the file it's pointing to is, or adding switches in the target line etc etc. Is there a way to make them show the pathway? Thanks, and no doubt you'll be hearing more from me !

Try this, it should work;

Paste the shortcut to the text file in:

c:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

substituting your username.

There probably is an easier way, but that should work.

It didn't work putting the txt file in that folder, and the other idea....well, it's saying a "folder", not a file.

I don't understand why it didn't show when i put it in the folder. maybe a restart?

What did not show. What is "it".

What pricetech suggested. I tried that, no go. There IS a email shortcut on the taskbar, but i didn't put it there. However, it is there in the folder he mentioned so i figured any shortcut i put in that folder should show on the taskbar like he said, but it didn't. I even tried restarting and it doesn't show there.

The other tutorial seems to suggest it puts a folder on the bar that contains the file you want, and i don't want that. I want the files directly on it. Otherwise for my purposes it's senseless.

Let me do some more looking. I tried just now creating a shortcut to notepad specifying a text file on the root of C but it didn't show up either.

I'll double check my notes and see what I can come up with.

Us old guys got to keep notes.