Pinning icons to taskbar in W7

I cannot get some icons, My Computer, Control Panel etc., to pin to the taskbar in W7. It keeps pinning them to Windows Explorer.

I have just bought a new computer running W7 because my old computer running XP suffered from old age.

In XP all you had to do was click on the icon, unlock the task bar, and drag the icon to the taskbar, but that doesn't work in W7

So how do you pin icons to the taskbar in W7.

Thanks.:)

You're right about Control panel Booh,

Control Panel - Pin to Taskbar

Computer is a little different though,

Computer - Pin to Taskbar

I have both pinned to my taskbar.

boohbah said:

brilliant,now i have computer there too. cheers derek

Cheers Jules. :)

Layback Bear said:

That works great derekimo. I have found another way to do it also.
Start Orb and type Control Panel. Right click on Control Panel and choose Pin to Taskbar.

Yep, that also works.

Dude said:

kemperhills, look here for control panel

Control Panel - Pin to Taskbar

Windows 8 will do it easily, I'm not sure if you can do computer with 7

Yup, that worked. Simple when you know how to do it. Thanks a lot.

derekimo said:

You're right about Control panel Booh,

Control Panel - Pin to Taskbar

Computer is a little different though,

Computer - Pin to Taskbar

I have both pinned to my taskbar.

Don't know what I am doing wrong. I follow the instructions for pinning computer and when I unzip the file and pin it to the taskbar I get and icon for libraries. Tried 4 times and got the same results. Never computer.