Solved Pin desktop shortcut to the taskbar

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I've researched this everywhere I can think of. I'm one of those old folks, so some things are more difficult.
I had absolutely no problems with WIN7 however, and just my opinion, how or who made win8 such a complete disaster for anyone to use:mad:


All I want to do is pin a desktop icon to the taskbar. I've gone to every app on this pc, right clicked, left clicked,
middle finger clicked, nose clicked, no luck.

Don't want to over simplify, but wouldn't it be great if one of those computer guru's had thought of this instruction?

"To put a desktop short cut on the task bar, right click on desktop and select pin to taskbar" or
"just drag that huge desktop icon in windows to the taskbar"?

I just got this new desktop pc about a week ago, am still navigating though help, tutorials, google, to try and figure it all out. I haven't even been able to set up a completely functional email, ie click on file, send page or url to mail recipient, both those options are grayed out.
And so on and so on.
Semper Fi:(
 

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Hello Bacsi, and welcome Eight Forums.

You already have a "Show Desktop" button on your taskbar by default for this. You don't see it until you click on it, but it's there.

W8_Show_Desktop.jpg

If you like, you could also use the "Show Desktop" shortcut below that you can pin and use where you like.

The email will require that you have an email client program (ex: Windows Live Mail, Outlook, etc...) installed to work.


Hope this helps, :)
Shawn
 

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Why not just use the one that's already there? It's that blank space on the other side of the clock, they just removed the separator that was present in Windows 7.
 

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I just got this new desktop pc about a week ago, am still navigating though help, tutorials, google, to try and figure it all out. I haven't even been able to set up a completely functional email, ie click on file, send page or url to mail recipient, both those options are grayed out.
And so on and so on.
Semper Fi:(
Let us know if you would like some help with getting into using Windows 8 in general. Be glad to post some info that could be helpful.
 
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The desktop appears automatically in the start screen, why would you want to add another route?
 

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The desktop appears automatically in the start screen, why would you want to add another route?

It appears that the OP bacsi just didn't know about the "Show Desktop" button on the far right of the taskbar since it no longer displays until clicked on.

"Show Desktop" can be helpful when you want to quickly clear your desktop by minimizing all windows at once, and then be able restore them all again by clicking on "Show Desktop" again.
 

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The desktop appears automatically in the start screen, why would you want to add another route?

It appears that the OP bacsi just didn't know about the "Show Desktop" button on the far right of the taskbar since it no longer displays until clicked on.

"Show Desktop" can be helpful when you want to quickly clear your desktop by minimizing all windows at once, and then be able restore them all again by clicking on "Show Desktop" again.

I've researched this everywhere I can think of. I'm one of those old folks, so some things are more difficult.
I had absolutely no problems with WIN7 however, and just my opinion, how or who made win8 such a complete disaster for anyone to use:mad:


All I want to do is pin a desktop icon to the taskbar. I've gone to every app on this pc, right clicked, left clicked,
middle finger clicked, nose clicked, no luck.

Don't want to over simplify, but wouldn't it be great if one of those computer guru's had thought of this instruction?

"To put a desktop short cut on the task bar, right click on desktop and select pin to taskbar" or
"just drag that huge desktop icon in windows to the taskbar"?

I just got this new desktop pc about a week ago, am still navigating though help, tutorials, google, to try and figure it all out. I haven't even been able to set up a completely functional email, ie click on file, send page or url to mail recipient, both those options are grayed out.
And so on and so on.
Semper Fi:(



Funny you mentioned pinning to taskbar. When I first loaded up W8 Pro with MCE pack, I wanted to pin the MCE app to taskbar. Found out you can't pin the shortcut app to desktop from Metro I had to go to MCE folder and pin it from there. That was the final straw and decided to not deal with Metro at all. To me it's just a waste of time on a non touch PC and I can't get anything done productively. Take Metro IE for instance and you go to open up a .pdf file another app has to open it outside of IE just plain dumb and clunky.

*Get StartisBack and just use W8 desktop and forget Metro period, you will get the feel of W7 and not get lost dealing with a duality monster that just adds to more confusion.


Hate to say it but Windows Blue is going to be just as disastrous, from what I gather MS is not listening to us to corporate or the devs, there will be no start button on 6.3 kernel, and you will still be forced to start screen. All they had to do was put in two stupid switches one for Start and the other for Metro then everybody would be somewhat happy.
 
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Funny you mentioned pinning to taskbar. When I first loaded up W8 Pro with MCE pack, I wanted to pin the MCE app to taskbar. Found out you can't pin the shortcut app to desktop from Metro I had to go to MCE folder and pin it from there. That was the final straw and decided to not deal with Metro at all. To me it's just a waste of time on a non touch PC and I can't get anything done productively. Take Metro IE for instance and you go to open up a .pdf file another app has to open it outside of IE just plain dumb and clunky.

I uninstalled Media pack, but can't you just right-click media Center and select "pin to taskbar"?
 

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I uninstalled Media pack, but can't you just right-click media Center and select "pin to taskbar"?

That's just it you can't, you can only pin to start. When you install MCE it will put a tile in Metro but you can't pin it to taskbar only the start menu. You have to go to MCE folder and pin it from the .exec file. This is just one of several things about Metro that makes me not use it. Hey I love my Lumia 810 and the Metro GUI works great for that but for no touch PC's it's just a waste of time for power users.
 

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I haven't even been able to set up a completely functional email, ie click on file, send page or url to mail recipient, both those options are grayed out.
Semper Fi:(

Read the HTML files in the zip folder about email & CMD prompt.
The cmd html is good for people with poor eyesight.

Here is a good unzipper if you need one--

7-Zip
 

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The desktop appears automatically in the start screen, why would you want to add another route?

I'm not being nasty or insulting elbmek (i.e. this is NOT a personal attack), but when someone asks for help, that's not a particularly helpful 'answer'.

Even if you question someone's motives, it would have been more helpful to, at the same time, chip in with a solution.

As for motives, here's an example: My 87yr old mother in-law has particular difficulty with 'mouse accuracy'. So trying to hit a tiny portion of the screen, when you can't even see what you're aiming at, can be quite difficult!

For her, I just pointed out that you could hit the 'start' button and 'D' on the keyboard together. Now she's happy.
 

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The desktop appears automatically in the start screen, why would you want to add another route?

I'm not being nasty or insulting elbmek (i.e. this is NOT a personal attack), but when someone asks for help, that's not a particularly helpful 'answer'.

Even if you question someone's motives, it would have been more helpful to, at the same time, chip in with a solution.

As for motives, here's an example: My 87yr old mother in-law has particular difficulty with 'mouse accuracy'. So trying to hit a tiny portion of the screen, when you can't even see what you're aiming at, can be quite difficult!

For her, I just pointed out that you could hit the 'start' button and 'D' on the keyboard together. Now she's happy.


no offence taken; its the way a person reads what you write. As for poor eyesight, personalise, display, large text?
 

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The desktop appears automatically in the start screen, why would you want to add another route?

I'm not being nasty or insulting elbmek (i.e. this is NOT a personal attack), but when someone asks for help, that's not a particularly helpful 'answer'.

Even if you question someone's motives, it would have been more helpful to, at the same time, chip in with a solution.

As for motives, here's an example: My 87yr old mother in-law has particular difficulty with 'mouse accuracy'. So trying to hit a tiny portion of the screen, when you can't even see what you're aiming at, can be quite difficult!

For her, I just pointed out that you could hit the 'start' button and 'D' on the keyboard together. Now she's happy.


no offence taken; its the way a person reads what you write. As for poor eyesight, personalise, display, large text?

Ok, understood. Looks like I misread. Glad to hear you took this the right way. When I said she cannot 'see', I was referring to the fact that the desktop 'icon' was invisible. I'm aware of all the other stuff. For my mother in-law it's more a case of hand-eye coordination. She's only just started using her PC in the last few months and I was only using her as an example of a 'motive'.
 

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I am 64 this year. I have been making web sites and running forum since early days when win 3.1.1 was just leaving us, and the internet was empty compared with today. I help kids and grown ups alike with 'how to' - the elderly on my private Army forum have not used pc's all that much, then realised they had to learn to 'keep up' - that's where I come in and give them lessons in postings, images, cutting and pasting - things that to us are simple but only because we have experience. Its the same with eyesight. When I type a post on facebook, its so small I can hardly see it. not yet figured how to enlarge it, if I can at all. Eyesight amongst the young(er) element is taken for granted but with us old fogies, its a real problem. I have a 24 inch flat screen but its still awkward sometimes.
 

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When I type a post on facebook, its so small I can hardly see it. not yet figured how to enlarge it, if I can at all. Eyesight amongst the young(er) element is taken for granted but with us old fogies, its a real problem. I have a 24 inch flat screen but its still awkward sometimes.

Hold the Ctrl key & roll the mouse wheel Forward to make text bigger on Facebook.
See picture of example from my Facebook account:


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Hold Ctrl key & roll it backwards to make text smaller. :)
 

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Hi there
"Seemples"

Hold CTRL on the keyboard and move with the MOUSE (Hold down the LEFT mouse button) the icon from the desktop to the taskbar while keeping the CTRL button pressed. (AFIK this method worked in W7 too).

(To create a desktop short cut simply in windows explorer find the .exe file and right mouse click ==>send to desktop (create short cut).

C'mon Peeps --what's up with the Forum these days -- a lot of insults seem to get flying around -- let's get back to proper "Netiquette".

Just think back to Yesterdays horrific events at the Boston Marathon to realize what people get up to once respect for others whatever their views starts breaking down. (I've run in that marathon myself a few times and normally it's one of the greatest days out in the year --people from ALL over the world are in town totally enjoying themselves in one of the USA's greatest cities).

Cheers
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That's actually a SCREEN enlarger; I wanted to enlarge the text as typed. But, its better than nowt :thumb:
 

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I am 64 this year. I have been making web sites and running forum since early days when win 3.1.1 was just leaving us, and the internet was empty compared with today. I help kids and grown ups alike with 'how to' - the elderly on my private Army forum have not used pc's all that much, then realised they had to learn to 'keep up' - that's where I come in and give them lessons in postings, images, cutting and pasting - things that to us are simple but only because we have experience. Its the same with eyesight. When I type a post on facebook, its so small I can hardly see it. not yet figured how to enlarge it, if I can at all. Eyesight amongst the young(er) element is taken for granted but with us old fogies, its a real problem. I have a 24 inch flat screen but its still awkward sometimes.

I don't quite have your years (at 54) but it's a long time since I was assembly programming on Commodor Pets. The ones with cassette drives built in to the keyboard - just like those you see on the control panel on the Battlestar Galactica TV series. Though I have to admit, I never had a BBC Micro or an Amstrad. I too, went through windows 3.1 and 3.11. In fact, I've still got an old laptop in the garage with 3.11 on it! That's if the battery hasn't melted down! And yes, I'm also the family 'teacher' though it helps that I live 200 miles from most of them.

btw. I've yet to discover how to add a signature to my forum posts. I do wear glasses but didn't think my eyes were that bad. Can you offer any pointers?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Acer
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    pc specialist made to order
    CPU
    Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790 (3.6GHz) 8MB Cache
    Motherboard
    ASUS® H81M-PLUS: Micro-ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
    Memory
    16GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
    Graphics Card(s)
    2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 750 Ti - DVI, mHDMI, VGA - 3D Vision Ready
    Sound Card
    ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    iiyama 24 inch flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    1TB 3.5" SEAGATE SSHD, SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM (64MB + 8GB SSD CACHE)

    2TB Seagate SATA HDD

    500Gb SATA docked
    Case
    In Win Turbo
    Cooling
    Super Quiet 22dBA Triple Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler
    Keyboard
    microsoft mutlimedia keyboard
    Mouse
    logitech corded
    Internet Speed
    152mb
    Browser
    FF, IE11
    Antivirus
    AVG Internet Security 2015
    Other Info
    16x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW

    10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
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