colore Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Hello!I want to have a permanent shortcut of an xlsx file at the right of the taskbarI dont want to click on the excel shortcut and choose the file, I want a direct shortcut to the file at that positionIs it possible?Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) not on taskbarbut you can make shortcut, put it to quick launch barthen right click on taskbar and choose Unlock taskbar, now you can see borders of quick launchthen right click in empty space of quick launch bar, click on View -> Large icons (set size of icons to be near big as taskbar ones)good thing with quick launch is that you can make multiple separate bars and place them to right or left of taskbar you can also center your icons on taskbar by using quick launch to be like on mac os Edited September 21, 2012 by vinifera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mateczko Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 (edited) There's an excellent program called Taskbar Pinner http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.108 , that out very lovely "xpclient" worked on. It'll help you out. Edited September 21, 2012 by mateczko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colore Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 There's an excellent program called Taskbar Pinner http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.108 , that out very lovely "xpclient" worked on. It'll help you out.it seems to do what I needhow does it work actually? does it write some registry key or something?I would like to know the procedure, in order to do it without having to install the program Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJinje Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 (edited) do you mean on the taskbar or beside it in it's own section. To avoid my shortcuts being taken over by Excel.exe and my xls being a sub-pinned item, I do something a little sneaky so that my shortcut doesn't know it's really starting excel. Then put that shortcut file in a folder, link the folder as a toolbar, remove text and title and I get an icon on the right of my taskbar. %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler D:\MYEXCELFILE.xls Edited September 23, 2012 by MrJinje Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colore Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 can you explain the steps of the procedure please? didnt get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJinje Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 can you explain the steps of the procedure please? didnt get itRight Click > New > Shortcut.Paste the rundll32 cmd as the 'Item Location' (including the full path to your xlsx).Windows thinks the shortcut is to Rundll32.exe and doesn't group it with other excel file types so that it can be placed in the taskbar and open your file directly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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