What is the location of pinned start menu and taskbar items?
Is this list a registry, or a folder somewhere?
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You can find pinned apps in: and for the start menu apps go to: |
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You can find the programs that you have pinned to the start menu at: and the taskbar shortcuts are at: Just copying shurtcuts into these locations does not work. You can, however, add shurtcuts via the Powershell. |
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To add a degree of precision to the replies which identified the… %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu …folder as the location where user pinned Start Menu items are stored, note that only actual programs—executables—that are pinned to the Start Menu will appear in that folder. Neither folders nor data files, both of which can also be pinned to the Start Menu, will appear in that folder. I mention it both for future readers who come upon this page via search engine result and because the original question mentioned Start Menu items, not just programs in particular. So if a user has, for example… • 2 folders • 3 programs • 2 documents • 1 music file …only the second item—the 3 programs—will show at the location above. Don't know where the other stuff that appears there, like the folders, documents, and music file above, gets recorded, but the Registry is likely a safe bet. |
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Depends on the type of application. Majority can be found in the answers already shared. But they are also contained at the following path.
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Wanted to add to other answers. The paths are:
In my case, I wanted to pin certain programs there directly point to the EXE files due to some corrupt installers preventing icons from showing up from advertised shortcuts. For this, you have to pin the program as usual (right click on the button and "Pin ..."), then create a shortcut pointing to the exe file in some other folder (doesn't matter where), then overwrite the pinned shortcut with your manually created shortcut - voila the icons are back! |
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