Solved Restoring Pinned Items

[Doodgraver]

Hello,

I screwed up again. I use windows 7 Home Premium 64bit for a month now and I made the same mistake I did when I first got it. I deleted my pinned items by accident. A month ago, I got the default items back, by closing explorer.exe and then restarting something. But I can't find out where I found that solution.

I know there are other solutions, but they don't work for me.

Does anybody know what I mean and how I can bring them back?

Greetings,
Ferry

 

[richc46]

Ferry
Go to the start button and then all programs
Right click on the ones that you want to pin. That is the best way.

 

[Doodgraver]

Yes I understand that, but it won't give me back my Show Desktop icon and Libraries icon.

 

[richc46]

To show desktop, just left click on the lower right near the clock. As far right as you can go.

 

[Doodgraver]

Yes I know, but I want that back to my pinned items. I found it very handy there. I know I got it back like that a while back, but I can't remember how!

 

[Brink]

Hello Ferry, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You could use the tutorial below to create a "Show Desktop" shortcut that you could pin to your taskbar, then delete the shortcut afterwards.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26379-show-desktop-shortcut-create.html
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You could use the tutorial below to pin Libraries (a folder) to the taskbar.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9305-taskbar-pin-unpin-folder.html
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In addition, you could use the tutorial below to be able to backup and restore your pinned items on the taskbar.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/212923-taskbar-backup-restore-pinned-items-windows-7-a.html
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Hope this helps,

Shawn

 

[Doodgraver]

Thanks, it was not the solution I had last time, but at least everything is back! Thanks!

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome. I'm glad that we could help.

Did you have them in Quick Launch instead?

 

[Doodgraver]

I have them in the left corner, from where the start menu is.

 

[Brink]

If it looked like this in the screenshots below, then that may have been Quick Launch.

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