Command to Pin or Unpin Program from Taskbar

[piglovesrat15]

Hello. Just want to ask anyone out there if they know a command to pin or unpin a program from taskbar. I know how to pin or unpin manually using the mouse and the shortcuts are in "%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\Taskbar".

What I try to do is run command if a specific shortcut in there, then delete it. I use the DEL command, it only deletes the shortcut in "%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\Taskbar" folder but the icon (even though it's now blank) still pins from the taskbar.

Thanks.

[cluberti]

You can use vbscript to do it, but there's no command or API (by design) to handle this.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2009/04/08/pin-items-to-the-start-menu-or-windows-7-taskbar-via-script.aspx

[powerdown]

I use two commands to do this. I got them from somewhere, can't remember where right now. First is a VBscript that preforms the operation you can shange the "Pin to Start Menu" to "Pin to Taskbar" (same for "Unpin...":

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")

set filesystem = CreateObject("scripting.Filesystemobject")

Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(filesystem.GetParentFolderName(Wscript.Arguments(0)))

Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName(filesystem.GetFileName(WScript.Arguments(0)))

Set colVerbs = objFolderItem.Verbs

For Each objVerb in colVerbs

If Replace(objVerb.name, "&", "") = "Pin to Start Menu" Then objVerb.DoIt

If Replace(objVerb.name, "&", "") = "Unpin from Start Menu" Then objVerb.DoIt

Next

Then I make a cmd file with the items I want to Pin and point them to the VBScript:

cd /d %~dp0

WScript.exe %~dp0PinToStartMenu.vbs "path to app you want to Pin"

You can add multiple Items in the cmd file to Pin/Unpin all the items you want.

[IcemanND]

I have a powershell script somewhere that will let you pin and unpin items to the taskbar and the start menu. If you are interested let me know and I can look for it and post it.

[piglovesrat15]

Thanks to all three. IcemanND - No need to, the VBScript is enough. Thanks again.

[xpclient]

A year late to revive this post but Taskbar Pinner will be most useful to you guys.