Windows 7: Taskbar - Pin or Unpin a Program

Brink · 07 Nov 2008

How to Pin or Unpin a Program to the Windows 7 Taskbar

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Last edited by Brink; 1 Week Ago at 02:33 PM..

Brink · 16 Feb 2012

Hello Short, and welcome to Seven Forums.

It sounds like something may be corrupted. Let's see if resetting the pinned taskbar items may help.

First, make note of the icons you wanted to keep on the taskbar, to make it easier to pin them back when finished since they will all be removed.
Download the attached BAT file below.
Right click on the downloaded BAT file and click on Run as administrator.
This will reset and remove all pinned taskbar icons.
Now, manually pin the icons you wanted back to the taskbar.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

moshe · 15 May 2012

I have an item on my taskbar that I want to unpin. I get no menu popping up when I left click the button, and it works fine when I right click it, I just don't want it there anymore. I tried going into the file that contains the shortcuts, and it doesn't appear in there. I have tried restarting numerous times. What can I do???

Brink · 15 May 2012

Hello Moshe, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Normally you would right click on a pinned taskbar icon and click on "Unpin this program from taskbar" to remove it from the taskbar.

Could you post a screenshot showing this to help see what may be wrong?

Windows 7: Taskbar - Pin or Unpin a Program

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