Unpinning From The TaskBar
Dec 7, 2011
I edited the Internet Explorer 'icon' pinned to the TaskBar, so that I could change its target to some other program which lacks a 'pin to the taskbar option'. That succeeded. I can now launch the other program from the 'converted' I.E. icon. However, something went wrong, in that the icon remnant still has the name Internet Explorer attached to it, and lacks a Context Menu through whose Properties I might set things right, including changing the image (and name) of the icon. I want to either be rid of it and start again; or fix it up.
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Aug 20, 2011
Is there a method/hack or a 3rd-party program that allows the user to hide the taskbar by dragging its top border line downwards, after un-locking the taskbar? I remember I could do that under Win9x.
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Jan 3, 2013
So about a month ago I restarted my computer and when it came back on all my programs pinned to my task bar and everything that was in my start menu was gone. From there I could not unlock the taskbar and nothing would pin in either the start menu or taskbar. I researched everywhere about it. I tried unlocking the taskbar in properties and registry with no luck. I finally found some posts about how my user profile was corrupt and from there I went on and made a new profile and copied everything and BOOM it all worked fine now. Well today it happened AGAIN! I restarted my computer and everything disappeared. So I think it is still a corrupt profile, but this is the second time it has happened.
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Jan 16, 2013
I have a client that has laptop with windows 7 Pro. He had a faulty network card, so I have added a new, usb network card. That said, He can not pin anything to taskbar or start menu. I cleared both folders of shortcuts(567 of them) but to no avail. He also has no options under his desktop Context menu for New. He is also using a roaming profile, of which I will disable next time I am there. I have a feeling that might be the issue. I did scour the internet trying all the usual suggestions, but do vaguely remember something about an entry in cache somewhere that if it is too big or corrupt, it could cause this behavior. I am unable to find that post anywhere now.I mention the network card because one post had taskbar issues until he disabled his faulty network card. I have disabled the faulty network card.
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Jan 8, 2012
I had a program installed called Spiral Knights, and I pinned the icon onto the taskbar so I could quickly launch it. When I was done playing it for good, I uninstalled it and it looked like the icon was off the taskbar, but it wasn't. When I tried to put another program onto the taskbar, called minecraft_server.jar, it pinned to the Spiral Knights icon, even though SK isn't installed anymore. Wherever I try to put the minecraft_server.jar onto the taskbar, the SK program is still there, and it says if I want to pin the minecraft_server.jar onto SK.
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Sep 18, 2012
how to show the taskbar
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Aug 13, 2012
Yesterday, the task bar and Start button mysteriously disappeared.I've also found that the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" windowdoesn't come up. There are two places to click on in Control Panelthat should bring up this window, but it doesn't. The Control Panelborder changes color as if something is starting to happen, but thennothing happens, possibly indicating that some program starts to runbut then finds something wrong and exits. I didn't see anythinginteresting in the error logs. The desktop icons appear normally.The problem exists only when logging onto my son's account. When Ilog on as administrator, the task bar and Start button appearnormally.The usual tricks don't work: Ctrl+ESC, or bringing up Task Manager andtrying to rerun explorer.exe. I tried sfc to check for corruptedfiles, but none turned up. I ran an AVG scan and it did find one fileit considered a threat, which it removed, but that didn't solve theproblem.
I found a web site that referred to the registrykeyHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorerwhich has a NoSetTaskbar value that can be used to disable the"Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" window. On the administratorlogin, the Explorer subkey is there all right, but doesn't haveNoSetTaskbar. (It does have NoDriveTypeAutoRun.) But when I log ontomy son's account, the Policies key had no subkeys at all. I triedadding an Explorer subkey without adding any values, but this didn'tsolve the problem. I haven't yet tried adding a NoDriveTypeAutoRunvalue, but since this seems to pertain to AutoPlay it didn't seemrelevant to this problem.Any thoughts as to what might be going on or what might fix it?
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Apr 26, 2011
I'm getting a pop-up box on the Taskbar. Each time I plug in any USB, it tells me I can get a better speed on another port. It has a box to tick that says that I can stop it telling me this. [This does NOT work. I'm using Win 7 Premium.
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Jul 15, 2009
I can't pin anything to taskbar. Everything what I try to pin doesn't appear in the taskbar. What should I do?
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May 24, 2011
i think it would be cool if i could completely get rid of the task bar(it would be gone not hidden). (that does not involve closing explorer.exe)
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Nov 1, 2012
I have started using Google Play Music for listening to music, and i would like to be able to have a shortcut for it in my taskbar, but as it is a website, i have not been able to do so. I have tried making a .bat file, and pinning it, but it doesn't have an icon which annoys me. I have tried converting said batch file to an .exe file, but it crashes for some reason.
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Feb 15, 2011
How does one pin onto the taskbar the desktop? In other words, let's say I have several windows open and I want to get straight back to the desktop without having to minimise each of the windows first. How's it done?
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May 20, 2011
lately while watching movies on my laptop the taskbar keeps randomly popping up at the bottom and then disappearing after a couple of minutes, this has only just started happening and it gets incredibly annoying when watching a film when attached to a separate monitor. its happening when watching videos on Internet,4od,bbc iplayer etc, anything fullscreen. its not just browser vidoes either, while watching dvds through vlc or wmp it is happening.
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Nov 19, 2010
It seems harmless, but it won't go away.
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Feb 22, 2012
it has the option to do so but when i click it nothing happens. before this when i could pin programs it said that windows is using too much ram and that my computer is slow, witch it is not.
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Mar 2, 2012
Today, all the icons on my taskbar are gone. No pinned programs, even when I open programs, there are no icons on the taskbar, only the start button, and the notification area are in the taskbar.I have tried rebuilt IconCache.db. And I also tried booting into safe mode, but there are no icons on the taskbar in safe mode neither
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Nov 24, 2011
I have pinned the internet explorer to my taskbar. When I click on the IE pin on the task bar, it brings up an IE window, but the window covers the IE pin on the taskbar, and I cant open another one.
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May 29, 2009
every time i pin it on the taskbar, it defaults to Libraries when i click it. how can i pin a link to my computer on th taskbar?
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Jul 31, 2009
i was wondering how i could turn off the list that shows up when you mouse over the taskbar.
Example:
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/5479/mouseoverlist.png
Edit 7/31/09: I've already turned off aero peek and thumbnail preview.
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Dec 4, 2011
I have my task bar placed at the top of the screen and auto-hide is OFF. This is what it normally looks like and should always look likeAs you can see indicated by the red line, there is a space between my web browser and the task bar.However if I restart my computer or if I open up a full screen game this is what happens:As you can see the space disappears. I prefer the look with the space but the only way to get it back is move the taskbar back to the bottom, then move it back to the topThe space comes back if I do that.However I should also mention that if I keep the taskbar on the bottom and turn off autohide, the space will be there as well but when I restart the computer the same problem occurs down there as well.
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Jan 24, 2009
Since I use a netbook, a lot of programs i run are installed to my SDHC card. Windows 7 won't let me pin the shortcuts to the taskbar for any of my programs installed on the SDHC card. Is this a replicatable problem for anyone and is there a fix.
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Sep 9, 2010
I've got the taskbar set to autohide, but sometimes it won't. Sometimes when this happens one of the icons in the taskbar has a yellowish background instead of blue, and it's this application which is requesting attention - once I've opened this window and done whatever it's asking me to do, the taskbar will autohide again. But often none of the icons is highlighted. If I've got 20 or 30 windows open, how am I supposed to find out which one is stopping the taskbar from autohiding? If it won't autohide, it's normally covering the horizontal scroll bar or some other important feature of the window I'm trying to use, so them I have to make the window of this application smaller. Eventually it seems that autohide is more hassle than it's worth.
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Sep 15, 2010
Is it possible to pin to taskbar a file?I would like to pin to the taskbar a scriptI can put it inside a folder and pin it though I would like to know if it possible to pin it
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Aug 28, 2011
I have just setup my new PC I have just finsihed installing all my programs and I want to pin some of my programs to the start bar. When I come to pin Google Chrome when i click it it open to web browers.
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Nov 5, 2011
how to view the messages that pops-out from the taskbar other than error messages? As I have pop-out messages which blinks only once, thus, I was not able to see what was the message about.
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Jun 19, 2012
I am using Rainmeter to customize my desktop and I really need to remove my taskbar.I've searched google but cannot find a simple way to do it
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Sep 25, 2012
The taskbar always stays on no matter what is open. Its really bugging me. I can't findsetting to make it hide when a program is open. I don't want to use the autohide feature. I windows xp it just let the windows open to max and would hide under what ever program was open.
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Oct 19, 2012
so the problem is this thing keeps popping up on taskbar and causing my games to minimize and i cant keep on playing whan the game minimizes every 2-3 minutes.
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Oct 23, 2012
Today I lost my quick launch Google Chrome in the task bar. When I tried to replace it, it would not allow me. I tried to pin other programs and could not get any to work. I also opened the program(s) and from the task bar right clicked the program while in the task bar, but there was no option to pin. I did the same by going to the start menu, again no option to pin.
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Apr 15, 2009
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