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Jan 17, 2013 - This one was VERY tricky, since Google Chrome doesn't use any of the conventional means to pin an icon to the taskbar and the desktop. However, when I drag the shortcut to the tackbar. The option to Pin it to the taskbar is not present. The only option available, is Pin To Google Chrome. This option only works, while Chrome is open. Once the browser is closed. The shortcut doesn't remain. How can I pin my Gmail desktop shortcut to the taskbar, so that it remain there?
Windows 7 users can pin programs, files and folders to the taskbar for an easier way to interact with the items. Pinned items are always shown in the taskbar, regardless whether they are open or not on the operating system.Update: Microsoft kept the feature alive in newer versions of its operating system including Windows 8 and windows 10. The method to fix the issue that pinned items are opened as a new icon when started applies to newer versions of Windows as well.Recently I noticed a strange behavior that I could not figure out at first.
Some pinned items on the Windows taskbar would open right on their pinned icon, showing it as active from that moment on. Others however spawned a new icon on the taskbar, as if they were acting completely independent from the pinned item.This was highly confusing, and I first thought it had something to do with pinned shortcuts who triggered this behavior. I took a closer look and found out that it was not the case. Firefox was linking directly to the Firefox executable on the hard drive and Chrome was doing the same. While a click on Firefox spawned a new item in the taskbar, a click on Chrome did not.My next thought was that it maybe had something to do how the items were pinned on the taskbar. You know that there are different options available.
It is for instance possible to drag and drop an item on the taskbar to pin it, or to right-click it in the start menu or while it is open as a normal item in the taskbar.While I was not able to figure out what caused this odd behavior, I was able to find a fix for it. If you encounter pinned taskbar items in Windows that spawn a new icon on startup do the following:. Unpin the original item by right-clicking on it and selecting the unpin option from the context menu. Right-click on the newly spawned item. If you use Windows 7, right-click on the program executable and select to pin it to the taskbar. If you use Windows 8 or newer, select the pin to taskbar option directly from the context menu.
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Move the new pinned item to the location of the original item.Once you have done so close the program, and re-open it to see if it fixed the issue on your end. It did for me. My problem – I “did” something yesterday by quickly clicking something, and I don’t know what I did.
(I have Windows 7, IE 9). Now my ie icon in the tool tray only has the option of unpinning from the taskbar and opening another IE. The “frequent” list and the “close all windows” options are gone.
When I click to open IE, another, unknown icon appears on my taskbar, and that’s where the “frequent” list is and the “close all windows”, but it doesn’t give me the option of opening other IE windows or unpinning from the desktop. So I need to switch between the two icons on my taskbar, instead of having everything under the IE icon and being able to just mouse over that and see all my open IE windows. I can still see my open IE windows by mousing over the “new” icon on my taskbar, but I want everything back under the IE icon, like it was until yesterday. Anybody have an idea what this is and how to fix it???. Martin:The second icon doesn’t have an option when I right-click to pin or unpin to the taskbar.
IE is NOT in my start menu (this is a work computer, I didn’t set it up), but I found where it was in programs and unpinned the one currently on my taskbar and pinned the one in the program files. It’s “e” on my taskbar, but it doesn’t have the “frequest” list and when I click it it spanws the generic icon. I don’t know if I can put screen shots on this forum or not, but if I can I could put screen shots here to show what it looks like. BTW, our IT guy is clueless about what’s wrong.
Don’t ask me exactly what I did, but I had my husband on the phone and he had me look at properties and target, and somehow the target was wrong, it was pointed toward the wrong drive, so I went to the C:program files (x86)Internet Exploreriexplorer.exe and made that the target, then I changed the icon to be the “e” instead of the funny square. When opened, it had all the correct “features” etc. So I pinned that one to the taskbar and unpinned the other “IE” icon I had on the taskbar.
Now I only have one IE icon, in the correct “e” icon, that opens multiple copies under the same “e” that I can mouse over and see all of them. Thank you for setting me on the right track!. Not sure if anyone commented with this already, better twice than never;)After FF updates the icon pinned to the taskbar doesn’t respond to right click so unpinning is not possible. But you can find the pinned icons in this HIDDEN folderC:UsersSilkAppDataRoamingMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick LaunchUser PinnedTaskBarDelete it, maybe even restart, but eventually it will disappear from the taskbar. Just repin the FF icon, and you should be ok. No more double vision:P Hope it helps!.
Hello,Please check the screenshot below. I've been running windows 7 x64 for some months without any major changes or virus/malware problems. But for a week now, my taskbar completely disappears at random times. (happened 4 times)It is completely random and it seems that the the programs somehow 'fall off' the visible taskbar area. They are still running, and if I try to pin a new program, it works but it disappears right away.Beore you say it must be the toolbars or virtuaWin, keep in mind that I've been using them and on past win7 installations since windows7 came out; and there weren't any problems.When this happens, there is no way I can 'refresh' the taskbar or otherwise make it realise that it isn't in fact empty. Aero Flip and alt+tab show that I have windows running, as well as the process manager.The only way to make this go away is if I log off or restart, which sucks when I have 100 tabs open in Chrome and other open windows/programs.Link Removed due to 404 ErrorHelp please.