Pin Download Folder To Taskbar [UPDATED]
Inca Lillard
Method 3 - The other answer provided here, simply copying a link file to the User Pinned\Taskbar folder, WILL NOT WORK in current versions of Windows 10. It may have worked at some point but this does not work any longer.
If you pin a shortcut to the taskbar, you can quickly open that program or folder even the shortcut is not on your desktop. To pin shortcuts to the taskbar is quite recommended if you use the program or folder frequently.
If the folder has a shortcut on the desktop, it will be very simple to pin it to the taskbar. You can right-click the shortcut and then select Pin to taskbar. You can also directly drag the shortcut to the taskbar.
This story starts many years back. With the introduction of icons pinning in Windows Vista onwards,the behavior of the taskbar in Windows changed. The new functionality only allowed (and still allows)you to pin executables, not random shortcuts. Not a big problem, because until now, you could use QuickLaunch, and easily drag & drop items there, from app shortcuts to folder shortcuts.
Anyway, right click on the taskbar, no Toolbars > Quick Launch. Pin Explorer, it always open inone of the two preset locations. Useless. There is no automatic way to add shortcuts to say somethinglike D:\Games. Luckily, you can work around this relatively easily.
Right-click on the desktop > Create new text file. Name it something like Files.exe orDocuments.exe or something along those lines. Then, right-click again > Show more options > Pinto Taskbar. If it's pinned, you'll see Unpin from taskbar instead.
Now, there will be an icon in the taskbar. Right-click on it, move the mouse up to the name of theexecutable. For example, Downloads, and then right-click on it. So basically, two right clicks. First,the icon in the taskbar, then the line that reads the name of the file you created on your desktop andpinned. Now here, click on Properties.
Now, you can do more. First, whatever you name the file you created on the desktop is what will beshown as a tooltip when you hover over the icon in the taskbar. So you can go with files.exe or MyCustom Path.exe or whatever. Secondly, when you right-click > executable > Properties, you cangive it a different name, which will then be reflected in the context menu. Click on the General tabinstead of Shortcut. Give it a name. Best if it matches the file name.
I just installed Visual Studio Code on my new Windows 10 PC and pinned it to the taskbar. When I right-clicked on the VS Code Icon on my old PC it suggested to open the recently opened workspaces. But now it only shows 'Visual Studio Code' and 'Remove from Taskbar'. I added VS Code from this Path to the taskbar: C:\Users\chris\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe.
Desktop right click ->Personalize ->Start ->Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start and Taskbar, turn this on.You need to enable this feature and open some Visual Studio projects before you can find it in the recent projects in the taskbar.
The idea behind the trick to pin folders to the taskbar is simple - since you can already pin executable files to the taskbar, you can make a shortcut to the folder you want to pin and replace its target path with the explorer.exe file. If you add the folder path as an argument for the explorer.exe app, that folder will be opened automatically from your shortcut.
Did you do Step 5, changing the icon picture? If you leave the default icon, WIndows recognizes that as a folder. You have to change the picture. (I used another file-folder picture and it worked fine. Without changing the picture I got the same problem you had.)
In the previous Windows I pinned a folder to the Taskbar and it had an arrow which I clicked, then selected something in the folder to open. I followed the steps above, but now you open the whole folder and then select what you want to open. Is the previous option not available anymore?
C:\Users\FBAC LLC\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
also allows pinning to taskbar.
But, hey, go to c:\ in dos and go
DIR CALCUL*.LNK /S /A /P
or do an F3 search in the C:\ folder.
However that may reveal that Calculator.LNK does not exist. LNKS to Microsoft built-in items may turn out to be out of your reach, to my limited knowledge. It used to be easy to right click a file in something like Programs\Accessories but the Microsoft Deproductivity Team did a bang up job obfuscating it.
The thing is I need to copy a file.rar itself not the text from folder to a clipboard to paste it later in something like virtual machine (WinSCP) this is the VM I use.
Because what I am trying to do is copying a backup file from local server to online server and vise versa.
So there is no path for such thing to use copy file or Read Text to copy a text .
If there's one or two folders you constantly access and you're tired of cluttering your display with multiple Windows, there's a trick to embed folders in the Taskbar. This way you'll be able to open files without having to hunt and peck through directories.
The Recents overview does not seem to support viewed folders. I don't know how the "Link to Intro etc." link got in there. Creating a new link to a folder and opening it did not put the folder there, and roaming in Nautilus does not affect Recents (until you open a file).
The right-hand side can also be configured to show your Favorites from the overview, where you could then add .desktop entries for Nautilus to open specific folders. (See pomsky's answer, but use Exec=nautilus /home/user/folder/ --new-window %U and include only the [Desktop Entry] part.)
For instance, if you need the titles "Pinned" and "Frequent", plus the separators, that is likely built into GTK or else.If you mostly want to get access to some "Pinned" folders, without the title, that is already available.If you are ok with adding the "Frequent" folders, without the title, that is perhaps doable with a dynamic script that reads the information stored as per Settings -> Privacy -> File History & Trash, which should be enabled.
I think it can be much simpler.
When you open an application or a folder,
it shows in your dock by default.
When you close it, it goes away.
So when it IS open and showing in your dock,
Right-Click the icon and "Add to Favourites",
then it will remain and live happily in your dock.
You want quick access to your most used items when you work on a Windows laptop or desktop PC all day. And the new version of Windows allows you to pin files, folders, or drives to the Windows 11 taskbar.
Windows 11 allows you to pin virtually anything to the taskbar. Having easy access to your most used and essential items makes it much easier to get things done. You can start your day with the items you work with the most right after logging into a new session.
Another way to get started with your day is to make Windows resume apps when you log in. That lets you have access to open apps you were using from the last session. Also, if you want easier access to your apps, learn to pin apps from Start to the taskbar.
Windows doesn't allow you to pin folders directly to the taskbar. There is an easy workaround, though. All you have to do is create a new shortcut to a folder and then pin that shortcut to the taskbar.
You can customize the Windows taskbar to your liking in a lot of ways, but for some reason pinning a folder directly to your taskbar isn't one of them. Sure, the jump list for File Explorer lets you view recent folders and pin the ones you like to the list, but that isn't quite as handy as having an important folder front and center. Fortunately, you can pin a shortcut to the taskbar, and making a shortcut to a folder is simple. We're using Windows 10 as an example in this article, but the same basic procedure works in Windows 7 and 8.
If you like, you can even change the icon for the shortcut to something that makes more sense to you---or at least make it more distinct from the regular File Explorer icon. Ideally, you should do this before pinning the shortcut to the taskbar, but if you've already pinned it, that's okay. Just unpin it, change the icon, and then pin it again.
Does anyone know the location of the pinned taskbar shortcut folder in Windows 10? I tried adding the shortcut to the following location but it doesn't work (C:\Users\rattanak\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar). It does not show up on my computer taskbar. The reason why I'm asking is that I want to deploy the shortcut to multiple computers at one time with Altiris.
Thanks dbeato. I relayed the configure-windows-10-taskbar to my system administrator. Rod-IT, I tried your suggestion prior to posting this question. It did not work for me. NathM, I am using Windows 10 Pro, 1607 version. Any advice as to where the new location is with 1607?
I have Windows 10 Pro. You guys said that the suggestions given were for Enterprise and Education. Do you guys know of anything for Windows 10 Pro? I'm looking on the web but not finding anything useful yet. Before with Windows 7, I use to go to the pinned taskbar and put the shortcut there. Now, I don't know where the new location is because the old location no longer works.
Hello Guys. Thanks for all the advice. I found my answer from this site Opens a new window . The PinTo10v2 was exactly what I needed. With this, I was able to write a script to pin the shortcut to the taskbar. It's not a folder location but at least I can pin to the taskbar remotely now.
Windows has always let you pin apps to the taskbar for instant access, and Windows 11 is no different. However, Windows 11 now lets you pin files, folders, drives, and even websites to the taskbar too. So, how do you pin things to the Windows 11 taskbar?
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