About this tag
Pinning in Windows refers to the ability to attach shortcuts to the taskbar, Start menu, or File Explorer navigation pane for quick access. Common issues include being unable to pin apps to the taskbar after updates, folders not appearing when pinned to Start, and limitations on which folders can be pinned in File Explorer. Solutions often involve registry edits, system file checks, or resetting Windows components. Beyond Windows, pinning also appears in Firefox 143, which adds Windows taskbar web-app pinning, and in WinGet, where pinning packages prevents unwanted updates. Raycast for Windows offers a clipboard history feature that can pin frequently used items.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Firefox 143 Update: Copilot AI, Google Lens Visual Search, Windows Web Apps

    Mozilla’s stable channel just received a substantial refresh: Firefox 143 lands with Microsoft Copilot available inside the AI sidebar, experimental Google Lens visual search, Windows taskbar web‑app pinning, and a batch of security fixes that administrators and power users should install right...
    • WindowsForum AI
    • Thread
    • accessibility copilot firefox firefox-143 google lens microsoft copilot pinning privacy taskbar ui automation visual search web apps windows xhe-aac
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Firefox 143 Brings Windows Taskbar Web Apps and Copilot Sidebar Enhancements

    Firefox’s latest release delivers the kind of practical Windows-focused refinements power users have been asking for — and a high-profile AI tie‑in that will keep privacy wonks and enterprise admins debating for weeks. Background / Overview Mozilla’s rapid-release cadence means the browser you...
    • WindowsForum AI
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    • accessibility admin policy ai-sidebar android api artificial intelligence browser settings camera preview codec copilot css grid doh enterprise enterprise it esr extensions fingerprint firefox firefox-143 google lens input-color ios memory safety microsoft copilot pinned apps pinning privacy private browsing pwas sandbox security security fixes taskbar ui automation visual search web apps windows windows 11 xhe-aac
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows News
  3. WindowsForum AI

    Raycast Windows Beta: Emoji Picker & Clipboard History Upgrade for Power Users

    Raycast’s Windows beta already improves two of the most frequently used — and often frustrating — pieces of Windows input: the emoji picker and the clipboard history, delivering smoother search, persistent storage, and a more keyboard-centric workflow that will matter to power users and...
    • WindowsForum AI
    • Thread
    • ai-emoji-suggestions beta clipboard history cloud sync cross-platform emoji picker enterprise extensions keyboard pinning power users preview privacy productivity raycast search security snippets windows
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  4. WindowsForum AI

    WinGet Hacks: Automate Windows provisioning, upgrades, and maintenance

    WinGet has quietly become one of the most practical productivity tools in a Windows 11 power user's toolbox — not just for installing apps, but for managing whole system states, enforcing upgrade policies, and automating maintenance. A recent MakeUseOf piece showed four simple WinGet workflows —...
    • WindowsForum AI
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    • automation configuration enterprise it governance infrastructure as code maintenance pinning powershell provisioning reproducible-state security software management task scheduler upgrade windows 11 windows deployment windows package manager winget
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  5. WindowsForum AI

    Windows Insider August 2025 Highlights: Start Menu Hub, Settings Migration, Explorer Persona

    Microsoft’s Windows Insider program delivered a compact but meaningful set of user-facing improvements during the first half of August 2025, focused squarely on UI consolidation, cross-device convenience, and tightening the long-running migration of legacy Control Panel functionality into the...
    • WindowsForum AI
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    • control panel cross-device enterprise it entra id file explorer insider builds live persona microsoft 365 phone link pinning privacy productivity settings settings migration share ui start menu ui-consolidation windows 11 windows insider
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  6. S

    Fixing Issues with Pinning Folders in Windows 11 File Explorer Navigation Pane

    Windows 11 File Explorer navigation pane allows for some folders to be pinned, but not others. It allows desktop to be pinned, but not documents folder, pictures folder. I have changed several settings many times, but it does not fix it.
    • SavorySilicon
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    • desktop documents file explorer folders navigation pane pictures pinning settings user interface windows 11
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  7. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 11 How do I add some folders to the Start Screen

    Hi I want to add a couple of folders to the screen that opens when I click on the start button. I.E. Healthy Kidney Recipes, etc. that I want to use regularly, that's what happens when you're 83. I've tried saving the folder on Drive C:\ as Start Menus Folder and then clicking on it and...
    • MikeHawthorne
    • Thread
    • desktop file management folders organization pinning recipes shortcuts start menu user experience windows 10
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  8. L

    Windows 10 Unable to pin apps to taskbar

    After I updated on 8/5/2019 all apps pinned to the taskbar were removed and I am no longer able to pin an app to the taskbar. Is there any way of restoring my ability to pin apps to the taskbar?
  9. CharlesT

    Windows 8 Startmenu: Cannot pin files in Notepad, Excel

    Greetings :) When I expand recent files in Notepad or Excel via startmenu and click the "Pin to this list" or "Unpin from this list" nothing happens. Interestingly, this is only the case for certain programs (Notepad and Excel so far) while others (Wordpad, Firefox, Paint.NET) have the correct...
    • CharlesT
    • Thread
    • bugs excel notepad pinning pro recent files start menu unpinning user experience windows 8.1
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  10. AnonymousUser

    Windows 10 Control Panel from Desktop Icons?

    Q. Is there not a way to adjust the default icon for Control Panel, NOT as a shortcut but from the actual original desktop icon in Themes> Desktop Icons? It seems to be the only one that you cannot change the default icon for. I'm wondering if there might be a reghack specific to Windows 10 that...
    • AnonymousUser
    • Thread
    • control panel desktop icons icons pinning reg hack shortcuts start menu themes user preferences windows 10
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  11. S

    Windows 10 Edge not going on Task Bar

    Edge has all of a sudden disappeared from my taskbar and I'm not getting the option to pin it back on..Same applies when I try and drag it on, it wont let me...No problem with pin to start menu.
    • stonie01333
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    • browser issues desktop drag and drop edge missing icon pinning taskbar user interface windows 10 windows 11
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  12. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 10 Pin Sound Control Panel link to Taskbar?

    Hi I'm trying to pin a Sound Control Panel link to my task bar. I can create a link on my desktop but it won't let my drag it to the task bar. I want to do this so that it's visible when I have some music and video apps open because I have to switch my sound back and forth from my Desktop...
    • MikeHawthorne
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    • audio control audio settings desktop media apps pinning start menu switching audio taskbar user experience windows
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  13. M

    Windows 7 Pin to taskbar "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Recovery\Advanced Recovery Methods"

    Is there a way to Pin to taskbar "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Recovery\Advanced Recovery Methods" . Thank you
    • Mychal
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    • advanced methods control panel customization pinning recovery shortcuts taskbar windows
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  14. Drew

    Windows 10 Good for 1, good for all

    Someone in another forum asked if there was a way to have constant, fingertip, access to All Control Panel Items rather than just the Category view. Thought I would share my answer to them w/ y'all out of general interest. I have found a way to have the All Control Panel Items permanently on...
    • Drew
    • Thread
    • control panel customization god mode pinning settings start menu taskbar toolbar user interface windows
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  15. Drew

    Windows 8 The Enhanced Taskbar Experience in Windows 8.1.1: A Complete Overview

    There is something that has come as part of 8.1.1 that I wonder how many are aware of it or how nice it is. Traditionally or historically we have been accustom to Desktop & Taskbar. Not long ago came the ability to Pin things to Taskbar. Recently, that came to include the ability to Pin Store...
    • Drew
    • Thread
    • app desktop functionality interface pinning start screen taskbar toolbar user experience windows 8
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows Tutorials
  16. Drew

    Windows 8 Like & Would Like

    I sure do like (NOW) being able to Pin Store APPs to the Taskbar AND (NOW) together w/ having the Taskbar on all screens, w/ you @ all times, as it should be; only makes sense, really. I would like to see a 'Cog' icon on the Taskbar. It would give Settings but, dedicated, proprietary, same as...
    • Drew
    • Thread
    • app design feedback icons multi-screen pinning settings taskbar user interface windows
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  17. Drew

    Windows 8 1 Really Nice Bit w/ the Update

    This is, actually, a 2-parter... 1. w/ the Update (8.1.1) can, now, opt to have Store icons on the Task Bar. 2. There is, as w/ anything in this context, the ability to 'pin' these to the Task Bar. That said... Active APPs will sit on the Switcher Bar, true enough. However, after a time, the...
    • Drew
    • Thread
    • access alarm application calculator calendar convenience desktop news pinning reboot sports switcher bar taskbar update user experience weather windows 8.1
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows Tutorials
  18. H

    Windows 8 Start Screen Pinner

    Hello, I am Sergey Tkachenko from winaero.com. Let me introduce here my latest project It is the Start Screen Pinner - software which allows to pin almost anything to the Windows 8 Start Screen :02.47-tranquillity: You may use Start Screen Pinner for the following tasks: to pin ANY...
    • hb860
    • Thread
    • control panel file management libraries pinner pinning shell object software start screen user interface windows 8
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  19. F

    Windows 7 Google chrome is opening a new window that's not pinned to my task bar

    So I have Windows 7 and I have google chrome pinned to my task bar at the top. Whenever I click on it, it starts up for a moment on the part that's pinned, then it opens up a new one at the bottom of my task bar. I've tried pinning the newly opened window to my task bar instead, but whenever I...
  20. Z

    Windows 7 Pin to taskbar problen

    My problem can be best described by scrnshot: Link Removed I have google chrome pinned to the taskbar (as can be seen by the 'Unpin this program .....' on the pop up menu). However, when I click to launch it, a new chrome icon pops up. I have just formatted my pc and I didnt encounter this...
    • Zyyk
    • Thread
    • application chrome fix formatting icons launch pinning problem taskbar windows
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Desktop Customization