

SLinkFile=Name of your shortcut (application_Name.lnk usually) The only things that need to be changed for your applications are: Here, we will create a notepad shortcut (notepad.lnk) and move it to the user pinned folder. UserPinned folder is here: %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar


You need to create a shortcut and then move that shortcut into the user pinned folder. The company or website is called TECHNOSYS. This is a standalone EXE that apparently works. Method 4 - There is a third party utility called SYSPIN. It may have worked at some point but this does not work any longer. Method 3 - The other answer provided here, simply copying a link file to the User Pinned\Taskbar folder, WILL NOT WORK in current versions of Windows 10. An internet search for the following terms will lead to the info: group policy taskbar pin. Method 2 - Probably due to backlash from the enterprise community, Microsoft now provides a method through the use of Group Policy to create a default set of items to unpin or pin for a new user account but this does not appear to be useful for one-off customized pinning. There are many websites that explain exactly how to do this with a VB script but this method does not work on the latest versions of Windows 10. However Microsoft removed this item from the Verbs collection while leaving it available on the UI for manual selection with a mouse. Method 1 - There WAS a method for scripting this using VBScript which involved enumerating through FolderItem.Verbs and activating the one called "pin to taskbar". Therefore they have made this very difficult on the latest versions of Windows 10. They are worried about third party applications arbitrarily pinning and unpinning items as a way to influence which programs a user will run.

Opinion - Microsoft explicity does not want to provide a method for anyone to add/remove pin items for the user.
