Note that you can replace “c:\folder\to\path” with a real path to the folder you want to pin.Ĥ. Type in the following command in the location box. Create a shortcut on desktop by right-clicking on blank area on desktop, New, and Shortcut.Ģ. Thanks to the reader Dan who commented on our Way #1 post about a much easy way that smartly uses built-in Explorer.exe. Change the pined dummy.exe file’s property to point the Target textbox to the folder you want to pin. We have covered this before but here are 3 steps in brief.ģ.
Way #1: using a dummy executable file to fool Windows 7 However, if you really want that feature, here are 4 workarounds that you may find helpful, 2 of them we have already covered here before. We all know that we can’t pin a folder directly to the taskbar in Windows 7.
