How to Pin a Program to Taskbar in Windows

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Pinning a Program to Taskbar is an easy way to add shortcuts to your most-often used programs in Windows. You can pin items to the Taskbar or to the Start menu. That makes you more efficient to remember and re-open the frequently used programs. This is a step-by-step guide to Pin a Program/Item to Taskbar in Windows 7/Windows 8 using VBScript.

How to Pin a Program/Item to Taskbar in Windows 7/Windows 8

In Windows 7 and Windows 8, Taskbar pinned items are stored in the following locations:

File System:
 %APPDATA%MicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick LaunchUser PinnedTaskBar

Registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerTaskband]

Steps to Pin the MS Paint Program to Taskbar:

1.  Download the vbscript file PinItems Download PinItems.
2.  Place the downloaded vbscript file in your favourite place. I have placed here -> C:ScriptsPinItem.vbs
3.  Now run the below cmd command in Command Prompt to Pin MS Paint Program to Taskbar.

cscript C:ScriptsPinItem.vbs /taskbar /item:"c:windowssystem32mspaint.exe"
Steps to Pin a Program/Items to Taskbar in Windows 7/Windows 8

4. Then go the Taskbar pinned items location : %APPDATA%MicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick LaunchUser PinnedTaskBar and you can see the new shortcut icon for paint application.

How to Pin Items to Taskbar in Windows 7/Windows 8

5. And now you can see the new shortcut icon for paint application in your taskbar panel.

Note: Here, you can replace your own program’s exe path that you are going to pin it in taskbar.
Ex: Use the below command to pin uTorrent in taskbar.

cscript C:ScriptsPinItem.vbs /taskbar /item:"C:\Program FilesuTorrentuTorrent.exe"

Thanks,
Morgan

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