Shortcut disappears from Win 7 taskbar

[Borrels]

I recently installed Win 7 and initially struggled to add separate shortcuts to files of a single app to the taskbar. This article gave me the workaround. It works fine but my workaround icons disappear from the taskbar when restarting Win 7.

I found the user date folder where the taskbar icons are placed. All my workaround shortcuts are there, along with others like Win Media Player that I've removed from the taskbar (and remains permanently removed). It's appear the taskbar doesn't 100% reflect what's in the "user pinned taskbar" folder.

Any suggestions for making my shortcuts stay?

 

[alphabyte]

Hi Borrels, if I understand you correctly you are trying to use what Win XP used to call the Quick Launch facility on the toolbar? And it seems you have found that on Win7 it is also there, but M$ have tried to hide it away from us.

For those who haven't found it yet: right-click on the taskbar, select Toolbars -> New Toolbar, and then browse to User (usually your name) ->AppData -> Roaming -> Microsoft -> Internet Explorer, and then select Quick Launch. You now have a new Quick Launch toolbar on your taskbar, to which you can add whatever shortcuts you wish.

Okay, but that still doesn't solve your problem, as every time you restart Windows, it is gone! The trick here is that it's saved together with your desktop setup, so right-click on the desktop, look at "My Themes" and take whatever your current Theme is and save it with whatever name you choose. Now when you restart Windows, your quick launch toolbar should still be present.

Hope this helps, although knowing M$ it's not guaranteed...!

 

[Borrels]

Hi Borrels, if I understand you correctly you are trying to use what Win XP used to call the Quick Launch facility on the toolbar? And it seems you have found that on Win7 it is also there, but M$ have tried to hide it away from us.

For those who haven't found it yet: right-click on the taskbar, select Toolbars -> New Toolbar, and then browse to User (usually your name) ->AppData -> Roaming -> Microsoft -> Internet Explorer, and then select Quick Launch. You now have a new Quick Launch toolbar on your taskbar, to which you can add whatever shortcuts you wish.

Okay, but that still doesn't solve your problem, as every time you restart Windows, it is gone! The trick here is that it's saved together with your desktop setup, so right-click on the desktop, look at "My Themes" and take whatever your current Theme is and save it with whatever name you choose. Now when you restart Windows, your quick launch toolbar should still be present.

Hope this helps, although knowing M$ it's not guaranteed...!

Thanks, I saw my theme was not saved. But even after saving the theme and restarting the shortcut disappears again. Quite frustrating!