Windows 7 Tips: Access favorites programs from Windows 7 Taskbar

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Pin Any Program to the Windows 7 Taskbar

Problem:

How to pin to the taskbar special Windows folders like Libraries, Computer, Network or even specific items from Control Panel or Administrative Tools.

Solution:

By default, Windows 7 easily pins any program to the taskbar for quick access (just drag and drop), but if you want to pin something that is not an application, it gets more complex.

To do this follow the given guideline:

Step 1.  Open Windows Explorer and look at the main categories from the left side of the window: Favorites, Libraries, Computer and Network. To pin any of them or their sub-categories, first create a shortcut to your desktop. The fastest way to create it is to drag-and-drop the item from Windows Explorer to the desktop.

Step 2. Now you’ll need to create a new folder on your desktop. For this, right-click on the empty space from your desktop, click on New and then on Folder. Choose a name for it, something suggestive, such as ‘taskbar shortcuts’ because you will move all the shortcuts that you want to pin to that folder. Move all the items that you want to pin to the windows 7 taskbar to the newly created folder and move the folder to a location where it is not going to be deleted.

Step 3. Open the folder, right-click on the first item that you want to pin to the taskbar and click on Copy.

Step 4. Go back to your desktop, right-click on the empty space, select New and then click on Shortcut.

Step 5.  In the ‘Create Shortcut’ window, paste the shortcut you just copied. This will add the path towards the shortcut.

Step 6. Add the word explorer in front of the shortcut path, press once the Space key from your keyboard and click on Next.

Step 7. Enter a name for the new shortcut, preferably the same name as the item that you want to pin to the taskbar. Then, click on Finish.

Step 8. Now you can access your shortcuts on your Windows 7 system. To have it on your taskbar, make a simple drag and drop from desktop to the taskbar. Or, you can right-click on it and select ‘Pin to taskbar’. After the item is pinned down to the taskbar you can delete the shortcut from the desktop. Also, you can replace the default icon with another one.

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