In message , Char Jackson
writes:
On Sat, 5 May 2018 11:58:49 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:
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Incidentally, I found I had to right-click _twice_ to get to the Target
line: the first one just brings up a two-line menu, containing "Command
Prompt" and "Unpin this program from task bar". Right-clicking _on_ the
first one brings up another menu that includes Properties, which brings
up the normal properties of a shortcut. Checking with my other "pinned"
shortcuts (?), this seems to be how they all behave - some pop up
something with more than two lines (some of them adding sections
labelled Tasks or Frequent), but those two are always there at the
bottom, and Properties is never there until you do the next right-click
on the upper of the two. (I haven't "played" with pinned "shortcuts"
before; it seems they aren't _that_ different to normal ones though.)

Your newness to Win 7 is showing. :-) The second level of right-click
that applies to pinned taskbar items also applies to all running taskbar
items, pinned or not. It's a behavior change from how XP did it and is
something you just get used to after a while.


I see that you are right. Which prompted me to wonder: if I change the
properties (e. g. Target: line) of something that is _running_, i. e. a
normal taskbar "bar" or "button", what am I changing the properties
_of_? Does the OS remember how something was started? A brief check, of
something I have both a start (sub)menu shortcut to and a desktop
shortcut for, but which I _don't_ have pinned, suggests it does; I added
something to the target line of the running button/bar, then closed the
window, and the addition had been made to the properties of the start
menu shortcut (which is what I'd used to start it) but not the desktop
shortcut. And what happens if you have multiple instances of something
open (multiple taskbar buttons/bars), and change the properties of one?
Another brief test (using Notepad+) implies it changes the properties of
all the running instances. Then, what if the button/bar is the result of
starting something from Start|Run - changing _that_'s properties is
changing the properties of what? All very curious!
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