... Click the Start button, right-click the program you’d like to pin, select More > Pin to start.
#CAN T PIN TO TASKBAR PRO#
Pro tip: You can pin a document to an application shortcut on the Taskbar by clicking and dragging the file to the program icon that’s already pinned to the taskbar. Right-click the file, folder, or link that you want to highlight, and then select Pin to top. See the MSDN documentation here.Ĭan you pin a file to the top of a folder? For example a host application like rundll32.exe can’t be pinned and there is no point Pinning it.
#CAN T PIN TO TASKBAR SOFTWARE#
Why can’t I pin some programs to the taskbar? Why can’t I pin some programs to the taskbar?Ĭertain files can’t be Pinned to the Taskbar or Start menu because the programmer of that particular software has set some exclusions.
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Supply the application name assigned to AppUserModelID via JNA. Check the right panel and locate the Do not allow pinning programs to the Taskbar option. InnoSetup can create such icon shortcut under section. In the Local Group Policy Editor window, go to User Configuration, followed by Administrative Templates, and then Start Menu and Taskbar. You need to create an icon shortcut that embeds AppUserModelID information. Rewritten some comments originally in the main post as per kayahr's request :) Extract this ZIP to some directory, double-click the EXE and try to pin the application to the taskbar and you'll see the problem.
#CAN T PIN TO TASKBAR ZIP FILE#
Simply run mvn package and you'll find a ZIP file in the target directory which contains the EXE file and the jna.jar which is needed to set this app id. The application uses Maven as build system. I have created a small test application on Github which demonstrates the problem: But I still can't pin the application to the taskbar. The JNA stuff from the second question/solution compiles and doesn't throw any exception.
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The application is launched with Launch4j. I'm currently trying to pin a Java application to the Windows 7 taskbar.