you cant pin specific folders to the taskbar?

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You can sort of pin a folder.....simply drag the folder from where ever it is, down onto the task bar........now it is pinned under Explorer........right-click the Windows Explorer icon in the task bar, then at the very top there is a "pinned" section that contains any folders you pinned via dragging and dropping them onto the task bar.

Granted its not a single-click process like it would be if you could pin a folder directly to the task bar, its only 2 clicks, much faster than manually navigating to the folder.

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First time poster, but long time lurker here.

I'd noticed this, as well, when I tried out build 6956 (getting around to installing 7000 this weekend).

I tried to drag the Recycle Bin to the taskbar so that I could hide it on my desktop and have access to it right there at the bottom of my screen. Instead it pinned it underneath Explorer and I can't drag and drop files to it.

On XP/Vista, I've always placed a shortcut to the Recycle Bin in my Quick Launch where I have easy access to the Recycle Bin and can also drag and drop files to it, right click to clear, etc. I'm hoping that I'll be able to have this functionality when Windows 7 is finally RTM.

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Putting in the taskbar would create a big mess, so you can pin folders to the Windows explorer list

You right click Windows Explorer and there is your list, alot neater

And any new folder you go into, it will add it to the list so you can quickly get back into your frequently used folders :)

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First time poster, but long time lurker here.

I'd noticed this, as well, when I tried out build 6956 (getting around to installing 7000 this weekend).

I tried to drag the Recycle Bin to the taskbar so that I could hide it on my desktop and have access to it right there at the bottom of my screen. Instead it pinned it underneath Explorer and I can't drag and drop files to it.

On XP/Vista, I've always placed a shortcut to the Recycle Bin in my Quick Launch where I have easy access to the Recycle Bin and can also drag and drop files to it, right click to clear, etc. I'm hoping that I'll be able to have this functionality when Windows 7 is finally RTM.

Mac user, eh? Prefer the dock that you can drag files to the little trash can in it?

I personally hate docks. I don't even waste time with the trash can in Windows. I delete files with the Delete button on my keyboard or right click and select Delete. There, it's in the trash now.

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By default, folders will be pinned to Explorer's Jump List. This lets you pin several folders and have them all be two clicks (or one drag + a click) away.

However, if you really want to pin a second folder directly to the taskbar, you can create a shortcut to "explorer.exe c:\foo\bar" and pin that, it will pin separately :)

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J.Sax

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Mac user, eh? Prefer the dock that you can drag files to the little trash can in it?

I personally hate docks. I don't even waste time with the trash can in Windows. I delete files with the Delete button on my keyboard or right click and select Delete. There, it's in the trash now.

Hah, no, I actually hate the OS X UI. I don't drag things to the Recycle Bin all that often, myself, opting for the Delete key. But if I have several windows open, I don't have to minimize them to get to the desktop and clear it out.

Plus I'm pretty OCD and I like my desktop completely clear of any icons. :p

By default, folders will be pinned to Explorer's Jump List. This lets you pin several folders and have them all be two clicks (or one drag + a click) away.

However, if you really want to pin a second folder directly to the taskbar, you can create a shortcut to "explorer.exe c:\foo\bar" and pin that, it will pin separately :)

I understand the design and I think it's a good implementation. Except in my Recycle Bin case. ;) But thanks for that tip.

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By default, folders will be pinned to Explorer's Jump List. This lets you pin several folders and have them all be two clicks (or one drag + a click) away.

However, if you really want to pin a second folder directly to the taskbar, you can create a shortcut to "explorer.exe c:\foo\bar" and pin that, it will pin separately :)

Whenever I try to drag a folder into the taskbar, I get a forbidden-cursor sign, thus I cannot add any item to Explorer's jump list (really inconvenient.) Could someone hint me?

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...if you try to make your user folder a shortcut to the new taskbar, instead it pins explorer.exe which just goes to libraries by default.

Correct? Or just me?

this reason for this is becasue the defualt folder launches the new explorer and everything you need is only 1 click away after from the left side, plus on the left pane you can add to you favorites, you can basically get anywhere in the comptuer in 2 clicks

but i agree on the Recycle bin but the above is to force you to use the side, break you habit you will enjoy it.

i did in the 32 bit build find a way to make the recycle bin come out if you right click the explorer in the taskbar which made it show in the jump list and you could right click form there to empty but... cant seem to get this back once i switched over to 64 bit

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Brandon Live Veteran

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That still just opens explorer for me, Brandon.

It will open Explorer to whatever folder you enter as the command line parameter to explorer.exe when you make the shortcut.

You can also create one for the "Computer" folder by creating a shortcut to "explorer.exe ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}" or one to the Recycle Bin by creating a shortcut to "explorer.exe ::{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}" and pinning that (you'll probably want to change the shortcut's icon too).

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azz0r_wugg

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Don't you think thats totally ill thought out Brandon?

Do you think my mom could do the above? No she couldn't.

To me, logically, when I drag the Computer to the taskbar, I expect it to make a shortcut to Computer...not add it to Explorers jumplist.

Terrible terrible terrible.

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This is a dumb design choice, but it's only beta so hopefully this design can be fixed. Intuitively, whatever you drag down there should appear down there just like any other shortcut. I hope MS realizes that this is working against intuition and towards excessive categorization for the average user.

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I found a little trick to add folders on your taskbar:

1) Open any folder

2) Right Click -> New -> Shortcut

3) Type in the location of the folder you want to pin

4) After clicking Finish, click and drag the shortcut onto the start menu and pin it to the start menu

-- It will not allow to click and drag it on task bar directly

5) Now click and drag the icon in the start menu onto the taskbar (It only seems to work if u drag it in between the icon versus all the way at the end)

Let me know if this works for others...

You can use this technique with anything pretty any application/folder/file...

J

EDIT: Actually you have to do step 5 twice apparently...

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I did that trick, but it creates a few issues. When the Libraries folder is already pinned to the taskbar and you open up the folder shortcut on the taskbar, the focus on which window belongs to which icon switches to the other icon. For example, opening Libraries while already having Documents opened switches the "application is open" icon style to the other icon. You can't have the Documents icon "launched" and the Libraries icon "launched" otherwise they will join together to create two instances on either icon it decides.

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