Network / Sharing :: Dial-Up Shortcut From Quick Launch Or Taskbar In Windows 8

Being impossible to get my dial-up shortcut from the desktop onto the taskbar of my new Windows 8 laptop, I followed the tutorial to add Quick Launch toolbar to the taskbar, and successfully moved the shortcut tothere.

With Vista, XP etc, one click on Quick Launch toolbar shortcut icon would open this "Connect TPG" window shown below. You then just clicked <Dial> button to connect directly to the ISP.

(Note: TPG is the name of the ISP)

However, with my Windows 8, three mouse operations all over the screen are required to arrive at this window:

1. You click the Quick Launch shortcut icon and the Charms sidebar opens.

2. Then you have to select the ISP under the Connections header,which causes a <Connect> button to pop up.

3. Which when clicked finally brings you to the above "Connect TPG" window.

how to open this window directly from the Quick Launch toolbar or how to pin a shortcut to the taskbar to achieve the same outcome?

NB, pinning "Network Connections" shortcut to taskbar is not the answer, as you still then required to the go through the same 3 operations mentioned above.

For further info, the properties window of the dial-up shortcut is shown below.

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