Windows 7: Pin to Taskbar and Pin to Start Menu Missing from Context Menu Fix

Brink · 30 Nov 2010

How to Restore Missing "Pin to Taskbar" and "Pin to Start Menu" Context Menu Items in Windows 7 Shortcuts

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Last edited by Brink; 1 Week Ago at 02:37 PM..

Brink · 02 Jan 2012

Monster,

As a test, create a new administrator account for yourself to see if it works properly while logged in the new account. If it does, then you could just copy what you like from the old account, and delete the old account when finished.

monster40 · 02 Jan 2012

Brink,
it works

the problem was that I was manually deleted IsShortcut from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/lnkfile

I have a .reg file that repair all shortcuts..
i hate the arrow on shortcuts and in XP there is no problem to del it, but in windows 7.... who knows

hope to help to somebody with the atteched file ;]
nice work

Thanks a lot, and happy new year for everyone!
Greetings from BULGARIA!

Brink · 02 Jan 2012

That's great news Monster.

Yeah, deleting the IsShortcut registry entry was the way to remove the shortcut arrow in XP, but it's not to be used in Vista and Windows 7 for reasons you have found out why for.

If you like you could use the tutorial below for how to remove the shortcut arrow in Windows 7.

Shortcut Arrow - Change, Remove, or Restore

Neo Anderson · 4 Days Ago

Hold down the Shift key while right clicking & pin to or unpin will appear as the option that was missing. I found it somewhere. Don't remember where, but I did remember what key it was. the example i'm using is I pinned to start menu an .Rtf document & it worked. Hope this helps lots of people

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