Windows 7: Start Menu - Reset Pin To Area

Brink · 23 Jun 2013

You're most welcome Gurn, and welcome to Seven Forums. I'm glad it was able to help. :)

Chris01 · 20 Sep 2013

I just registered to say thanks for that small but very important fix. This was driving me nuts.

For reference, my issue was that after pinning the Network icon in the Start menu manually by drag & drop, i could not remove it by "Remove from this list". Other answers didn't work either as Windows' icons (such as "Network" or "My Computer") do not show up in %appdata folders, so you cannot remove them. Thanks again!

Brink · 20 Sep 2013

You're most welcome Chris, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

cmark · 01 Apr 2016

Any tips on deleting just a specific pinned item?
When I try some logical steps it does nothing.

DEL "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu\Hyperspace ACE2"

I replaced the * with "Hyperspace ACE2" in hopes of removing that pinned item but it goes nowhere.

Brink · 01 Apr 2016

Hello cmark, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)

Are you able to unpin the item from Start normally?

Start Menu - Pin or Unpin a Program to

cmark · 01 Apr 2016

Yes, I can remove it normally without issue.

Brink · 02 Apr 2016

Good news.

cmark · 04 Apr 2016

But I need to do so on 1000 pcs...

Brink · 04 Apr 2016

Quote: Originally Posted by cmark

Any tips on deleting just a specific pinned item?
When I try some logical steps it does nothing.

DEL "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu\Hyperspace ACE2"

I replaced the * with "Hyperspace ACE2" in hopes of removing that pinned item but it goes nowhere.

Quote: Originally Posted by cmark

But I need to do so on 1000 pcs...

In that case, you will also need to delete the pinned item from the registry location below. It may be best to export this location before and after manually unpinning it from Start to know which one to delete on the other PCs.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage2

cmark · 04 Apr 2016

Thank you very much, that saved me a ton of time!