How to Pin a Program to Taskbar in Windows

Description

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"

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

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