Pin Items to the Start Menu or Windows 7 Taskbar via Script

re: Pin Items to the Start Menu or Windows 7 Taskbar via Script

Ananth B. — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:16:40 GMT

Hi, I'm writing an MP3 player (free, to be released soon) that has no UI, and takes advantage of Win7 taskbar features to handle all user input.

For one, I dynamically set the main form icon to the song's album art. This presents a problem because when I pin the program, it uses the application icon from the resource file.

So my questions are:

1. Can I find out if my application is pinned to the taskbar(are these pinned items stored anywhere)? - My application is single-instance anyway, so it doesn't matter if its run from other places.

2. I can execute the vbs you've put up here to pin programs to the taskbar, but what about removing it from the taskbar? I didn't find a verb that does this. - I ask this because I can un-pin the application at startup and pin it back on when I'm closed.

Thanks in advance, your responses will be most appreciated!

email: ananth _at_ ananthonline.net

-Ananth

re: Pin Items to the Start Menu or Windows 7 Taskbar via Script

Ananth B. — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:02:56 GMT

Got it! This for people who stumble across this thread looking for information on (un)pinning item from/to the Windows 7 taskbar using .NET.

I've written a blog entry on this with some code to boot at http://blog.ananthonline.net/?p=37.

Hope it helps!

re: Pin Items to the Start Menu or Windows 7 Taskbar via Script

konieckropka — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:26:44 GMT

Hi. Cool scripts... but...What about

when your "pinn to taskabr" and "Pin to start menu" disappeared accidentaly?

How to reverse windows registry settings to get them back as asked on this technet forum

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/7c0a568b-b960-4a08-a1d2-cf76021cc570

Any ideas?

re: Pin Items to the Start Menu or Windows 7 Taskbar via Script

bascaro — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:14:04 GMT

its nice to pin and unpin those icons.

Thanks!

, but...

it would be even cooler if it is possible to re-arrange the items.

F.e.: if i pin up the Thunderbird icon to the Taskmenu, it should automatically be ordered next to the Internet Explorer.

Is this possible?

If it is, how?

re: Pin Items to the Start Menu or Windows 7 Taskbar via Script

Michael — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:32:56 GMT

How do you use the ZTI-SpecialFolderLib.vbs? I suppose, I should modify it in some way before calling it from MDT?

Thanks!

re: Pin Items to the Start Menu or Windows 7 Taskbar via Script

murgolom — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:38:12 GMT

Michael,

ZTI-SpecialFolderLib.vbs is a function library used by PinItem.wsf. It needs to be in the same folder as PinItem.wsf.

Michael Murgolo