Windows 7 pin item to taskbar for all users

The issue could occur if the pinned items get corrupted. You may delete the already pinned items and re-pin an item to the taskbar and check if that fixes the issue. Create a new user account and check if the issue recurs in the newly created account.

If the issue does not persist in the new user account, it could indicate that your old user account is corrupted. Fix a corrupted user profile. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. This is a very useful task for those of us deploying Windows system images. The answer XML file will only pin a few during install, but will not remove any. In a business environment, it's very important to discourage users from using the built-in IE. They can always pin IE and such on their own, but then it becomes their doing that made their system prone to IE exploits.

Jader Dias Jader Dias My users will hate for that : — Daniel. Export Registry Key to pinned. Create a logon script to deploy the registry keys and copy the corresponding files. Brett Smith Brett Smith 31 1 1 bronze badge. There is no need for your spiel. Remove it or your answer is likely to be downvoted and removed. If you don't get it the other "answer" was simply being sarcastic - see the reference to tools that they believe abuse what the OP was asking. Brett, thanks for sharing. It's good to know we can wipe all pins and re-create them manually for those situations requiring this.

Very handy for doing Windows system images, before users get a chance to customize the taskbar. ZippyV ZippyV Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. There are group policies for this in 7 and server , however, from what I have found, they don't work very well. So I then tried to do it in the image, that didn't work either.

Thanks, one question though. Yeah, that's part of the, it kind of works, and kind of doesn't lol. No I haven't found a way around this other than to have them log off and back on, display a message after first logon to reboot machine per administrator, or some other form of creative tinkering to get them to do this.

Here is what ended up working for me I spent several hours figuring this out - so hopefully I can save some of you a few hours of frustration and testing. Try not to use absolute values for file locations as shown below if possible!! I ended up finding and adapting the below VBS script that gets kicked off on login. Replace File locations as needed. In order for this to work you have to have a. GetFolder sOriginFolder. GetFile sFile. ParseName "Sharepoint.