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How can I pin a shortcut with a nework drive in it to the task bar?

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Hi All,

Windows 10-1809 Home

I have a desktop icon (shortcut) that points to a program on a network drive. Windows won't let me ping it to the task bar. How do I work around this? (Everything that points to C: does pin.)

Many thanks,
-T

Thursday, October 3, 2019 2:23 AM

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Hi,

Thank for your post.

It seems like you want to pin the network program or mapped driver to taskbar. We could check the information in the link below

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/pin-to-taskbar-a-shortcut-to-serverdirappexe/755fa668-b73c-4ca4-b488-b8d0f07047f9?auth=1

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4636-pin-taskbar-folder-drive-windows-10-a.html Regards,
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Thursday, October 3, 2019 9:05 AM

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Hi Carl,

Those are nice links. Thank you. Unfortunately, no joy.

The shortcut points to a .exe on a network drive. It even comes up with its own icon. Directly copying the shortcut into "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar" does not work.

I have not tried entering it into "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband". I should check.

-T

Thursday, October 3, 2019 3:39 PM

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I tried the trick where you pin an icon that will pin, then go into appdata and modify it. It let me run it once, then removed it.

Saturday, October 12, 2019 1:53 AM

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