Pinning website shortcuts to the taskbar

4Ft12 · Jan 14, 2010

Hi:
I'm trying to pin a Gmail shortcut and a few forums shortcuts to the taskbar, but I'm not having any luck doing this.
I'm able to pin programs to the taskbar without a problem though so I'm wondering if somebody can tell me how this can be done in Win 7 Ultimate.

mxosder16 · Jan 14, 2010

It would show up if you right click the Internet Explorer icon

EDIT: The way to do this would simply be to save them as a favorite on the favorites bar and then drag them over the IE icon and drop them there

Guntmeister · Jan 15, 2010

Instructions for Gmail shortcut pinnable to
taskbar:

Right click desktop and highlight "new", then over to "shortcut"
To open Gmail in IE type in the location: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox
To open Gmail in Firefox type in the location: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox
(the quotes are necessary)
Then assign it an icon and you can pin it to your taskbar. This will work for any internet address for your other shortcut needs.

4Ft12 · Jan 15, 2010

redsoxm16 said:
It would show up if you right click the Internet Explorer icon

EDIT: The way to do this would simply be to save them as a favorite on the favorites bar and then drag them over the IE icon and drop them there

Thanks, but that doesn't help me to put an icon on the taskbar the way I could do in XP.

4Ft12 · Jan 15, 2010

Guntmeister said:
Instructions for Gmail shortcut pinnable to
taskbar:

Right click desktop and highlight "new", then over to "shortcut"
To open Gmail in IE type in the location: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox
To open Gmail in Firefox type in the location: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox
(the quotes are necessary)
Then assign it an icon and you can pin it to your taskbar. This will work for any internet address for your other shortcut needs.

Thanks, but I don't quite understand your instructions. Are you telling me to type in the following in the address bar of Internet Explorer, or are you telling me to right click on the Desktop>New>Shortcut and then type it in there? Either way this doesn't work for me.
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox

fseal · Jan 15, 2010

You create a new shortcut as descripbed. Then right click it and open the properties (if it's not open already after creating it), then you type in the above information into the "target" edit box.

What you are doing is creating a program shortcut to launch IE or FF and passing it the URL of the page you want to load.

4Ft12 · Jan 15, 2010

OK Thanks, that helped, I've got it now.

etb7 · Jul 23, 2015

Hi I have the same problem but your solution do not work for me cause I have already all my browser pined on my task bar. Previously I had both chrome and gmail pined on task bar. Sinced I changed my computer I did'nt find the way to do it again.
Can you help ?

Windymiller · Sep 13, 2016

Found this solution on Youtube.

Open Chrome. Click on Apps in Browser Bar or Address Bar (ribbon at top of screen). This opens with set of
icons including M icon for Mail. Click on that - check Taskbar - click create.

Worked like a charm for me.

Windymiller · Sep 13, 2016

nb to above.

I don`t like Google much but somehow ended up installing it and its collection of extras. It was worth it for this !

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