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Published: **May 6, 2019 - 12:04 PM**

Good morning,
I reused the code from the Thunderbird package to add a Firefox icon to the taskbar, and at the same time remove the IE icon. The IE icon disappears, but the Firefox icon doesn't appear in the taskbar, even though the .lnk file is correctly located in "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar". If I manually pin the Firefox shortcut, it works.

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def session_setup():
    firefox_quickLaunch = makepath(user_appdata(),'Microsoft','Internet Explorer','Quick Launch', 'User Pinned', 'TaskBar', 'Mozilla firefox.Lnk')
    ie_quickLaunch = makepath(user_appdata(),'Microsoft','Internet Explorer','Quick Launch', 'User Pinned', 'TaskBar', 'Internet Explorer.Lnk')

    if iswin64:
        destdir64 = makepath(programfiles,'Mozilla Firefox')
        if isfile(makepath(destdir64,'firefox.exe')):
            create_shortcut(firefox_quickLaunch,target=makepath(destdir64,'firefox.exe'), wDir=makepath(destdir64),icon=makepath(destdir64,'firefox.exe'))
    else:
        destdir32 = makepath(programfiles32,'Mozilla Firefox')
        if isfile(makepath(destdir32,'firefox.exe')):
            create_shortcut(firefox_quickLaunch,target=makepath(destdir32,'firefox.exe'), wDir=makepath(destdir32),icon=makepath(destdir32,'firefox.exe'))

    if isfile(ie_quickLaunch):
        remove_file(ie_quickLaunch)

Published: **May 24, 2019 - 1:29 PM**

In Thunderbird, replace if present:

To add ...:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Fo ... progeneral

Published: **May 24, 2019 - 1:40 PM**

Hey, after searching for a while I just discovered Syspin

http://www.technosys.net/products/utils/pintotaskbar

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syspin "C:\Program Files (x86)\wapt\waptself.exe" c:5386

Launch in setup session

We would need to dig a little deeper to understand how the little software program works.

Published: **May 27, 2019 - 3:43 PM**

Thanks for the link! It does indeed work well with Firefox or Calc, for example, but strangely I can't get it to work with Windows Explorer on the last line...

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run(ur'syspin.exe "%s" c:5386' %makepath(programfiles,'Mozilla Firefox',"firefox.exe"))
run(ur'syspin.exe "%windir%\System32\calc.exe" c:5386')

run(ur'syspin.exe "%windir%\explorer.exe" c:5386')

Published: **January 23, 2020 - 5:28 PM**

reverse engineered version of syspin.exe available at https://github.com/airwolf2026/Win10Pin2TB

Published: **March 12, 2020 - 3:56 PM**

The official method suggests modifying C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\LayoutModification.xml

For example

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LayoutModificationTemplate
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/LayoutModification"
    xmlns:defaultlayout="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/FullDefaultLayout"
    xmlns:start="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/StartLayout"
    xmlns:taskbar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Start/2014/TaskbarLayout"
    Version="1">
  <CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection PinListPlacement="Replace">
    <defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
      <taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
        <taskbar:DesktopApp DesktopApplicationLinkPath="%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\System Tools\File Explorer.lnk" />
      </taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
    </defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
  </CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>
</LayoutModificationTemplate>

It replaces the taskbar and just adds the link to the file explorer.

More information on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... 10-taskbar

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