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.bat on taskbar?
On Sat, 5 May 2018 11:58:49 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: [] I have two DOS/CMD prompts open at the moment. If I rt-click the TaskBar button of either, I have the option "Pin this program to taskbar" That'll give you a pinned shortcut (is shortcut the right term?) to the command prompt; I have one, whose Target line is "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe" [without the ""]. It wouldn't give you s shortcut to a batch file. However, maybe you could add the name of a batch file _to_ its target line. [Maybe needing some "", perhaps even nested.] 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. -- Char Jackson |
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.bat on taskbar?
T wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: T wrote: Windows 7 Pro, SP1, 32 bit I created a Perl6 program for a customer. I created a shortcut to it on the desktop. But Windows won't allow me to to copy it to the task bar as perl6 is a batch file. Looking at google, the trick of creating cmd /c perl6 program.pl6 on the desktop and dragging it to the task bar, did not work either Create a shortcut on the desktop that runs: cmd.exe /c "perl6 program.pl6" This the favorite on Google: I does not work for me. I tried before posting before and just again. Works for me. I right-click on the desktop, create a new shortcut, specify its Target as: cmd.exe /c "perl6 program.pl6" (with the double-quotes), and name the shortcut. I don't have Perl installed but shortcut creation doesn't check the program exists. Now I have a shortcut on my desktop. I right-click on the shortcut where is shown the option to "Pin to Taskbar". Alternatively I can drag the shortcut to the taskbar whereupon a popup appears saying "Pin to Taskbar". After creating the shortcut on the desktop, is the "Pin to Taskbar" context menu entry missing when you right-click on it? What happens when you drag the shortcut to the taskbar? As long as you can define a working shortcut, you should be able to pin the shortcut to the taskbar. After creating the shortcut (and before trying to pin it), does it work when you double-click on it? |
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.bat on taskbar?
On 05/05/2018 07:45 AM, Java Jive wrote:
On 05/05/2018 13:31, T wrote: On 05/05/2018 03:26 AM, Java Jive wrote: I have two DOS/CMD prompts open at the moment.Â* If I rt-click the TaskBar button of either, I have the option "Pin this program to taskbar" I can do the same.Â* I get blocked after I add anything to the cmd.exe run line One of my DOS Prompts already had stuff after the CMD to launch a *.BAT file to initialise the environment, yet it still pins to the TaskBar, and from there launches the DOS Prompt and initialises it correctly. It really hates you renaming the icon |
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.bat on taskbar?
On 05/05/2018 10:44 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
T wrote: VanguardLH wrote: T wrote: Windows 7 Pro, SP1, 32 bit I created a Perl6 program for a customer. I created a shortcut to it on the desktop. But Windows won't allow me to to copy it to the task bar as perl6 is a batch file. Looking at google, the trick of creating cmd /c perl6 program.pl6 on the desktop and dragging it to the task bar, did not work either Create a shortcut on the desktop that runs: cmd.exe /c "perl6 program.pl6" This the favorite on Google: I does not work for me. I tried before posting before and just again. Works for me. I right-click on the desktop, create a new shortcut, specify its Target as: cmd.exe /c "perl6 program.pl6" (with the double-quotes), and name the shortcut. I don't have Perl installed but shortcut creation doesn't check the program exists. Now I have a shortcut on my desktop. I right-click on the shortcut where is shown the option to "Pin to Taskbar". Alternatively I can drag the shortcut to the taskbar whereupon a popup appears saying "Pin to Taskbar". After creating the shortcut on the desktop, is the "Pin to Taskbar" context menu entry missing when you right-click on it? What happens when you drag the shortcut to the taskbar? As long as you can define a working shortcut, you should be able to pin the shortcut to the taskbar. After creating the shortcut (and before trying to pin it), does it work when you double-click on it? See me 5:59 post, where I give steps to do this. You can't rename the icon. Thank you for the help! -T |
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.bat on taskbar?
T wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: As long as you can define a working shortcut, you should be able to pin the shortcut to the taskbar. See me 5:59 post, where I give steps to do this. You can't rename the icon. Rename the icon? Or rename the shortcut name? Shortcuts are .lnk file so they can take on the same characters as can be used in a filename. I can rename the shortcut. I created one with your command string (all of it but with the program and its argument enclosed in double-quotes) and called the shortcut "test". On the desktop, I selected the shortcut (single-click) and renamed it to "newtest". Right-clicking on the renamed shortcut still showed the "Pin to Taskbar" context menu entry, and dragging the renamed shortcut to the taskbar also worked to pin to the taskbar. I don't see how the name of the shortcut matters -- other than the shortcut's name shows up in the popup description when hovering over the pinned shortcut (so name the shortcut something memorable before pinning). If "renaming the icon" means you specified a different icon for the shortcut, I did that, too. After creating the shortcut with the full command string, renaming the shortcut, and changing the shortcut's properties to pick a different icon (I used shell32.dll to find some), it still would pin the taskbar. Don't know what weird software config you have that interferes with creating a shortcut, renaming it, and then pinning it. Also, I did not have to create a shortcut with just "cmd.exe". I had the shortcut specify the full command string. Items pinned to the Windows taskbar will show up under the following folder: %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\ The shortcut in that folder will be named chosenName.lnk (shortcuts are .lnk files). If you open that folder in Windows Explorer, can you successfully create a shortcut there with whatever command string you want? Which Windows theme are you using? I'm using an Aero theme (and not the basic one). While pinning to the Start menu was available back in Windows XP, pinning to the taskbar was a new feature introduced in Windows 7. Tis possible it is an Aero feature, or more easily accomplished when using the full Aero theme. Features new to Windows 7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featur...d_applications If you are using the full Aero theme, perhaps some tweak or background process is interferring with easy pinning of shortcuts. You cannot test by booting into Windows's safe mode since, I believe, the the effects of the Aero theme are disabled in safe mode. Perhaps someone decided to disable an advanced feature, like DWM (Desktop Window Manager). This is for the desktop composition feature. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...(v=vs.85).aspx To check, go to: - Run "control.exe sysdm.cpl". - Advanced tab. - Performance "Settings" button. Is "desktop composition" enabled or disabled? When you look at services (run services.msc), what is the startup state of the "Desktop Window Manager Session Manager"? It should be Automatic. |
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In message , Char Jackson
writes: On Sat, 5 May 2018 11:58:49 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: [] 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! -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf And if you kill Judi Dench, you can't go back home. - Bill Nighy (on learning to ride a motorbike [on which she would be side-saddle] for "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"), quoted in Radio Times 18-24 February 2012. |
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.bat on taskbar?
In message , VanguardLH
writes: [] Which Windows theme are you using? I'm using an Aero theme (and not the basic one). While pinning to the Start menu was available back in Windows XP, pinning to the taskbar was a new feature introduced in Windows 7. Tis possible it is an Aero feature, or more easily accomplished when using the full Aero theme. [] Pinning to taskbar isn't a function of Aero - I have a non-Aero theme (I quite liked Aero - I know it's a bit of a resource hog, but this machine has the capacity - but I found it interfered with my colour choices: I like my tooltips [and other things that share their colour] as yellow on brown, and Aero interfered with that), and I can still pin no problem. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf And if you kill Judi Dench, you can't go back home. - Bill Nighy (on learning to ride a motorbike [on which she would be side-saddle] for "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"), quoted in Radio Times 18-24 February 2012. |
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.bat on taskbar?
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , VanguardLH writes: [] Which Windows theme are you using? I'm using an Aero theme (and not the basic one). While pinning to the Start menu was available back in Windows XP, pinning to the taskbar was a new feature introduced in Windows 7. Tis possible it is an Aero feature, or more easily accomplished when using the full Aero theme. [] Pinning to taskbar isn't a function of Aero - I have a non-Aero theme (I quite liked Aero - I know it's a bit of a resource hog, but this machine has the capacity - but I found it interfered with my colour choices: I like my tooltips [and other things that share their colour] as yellow on brown, and Aero interfered with that), and I can still pin no problem. Color choice would be a problem for me too. My choice is yellow on burgundy [which matches my toolbar background]. bj |
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.bat on taskbar? (Now colours in Aero) and elsewhere)
In message , chicagofan
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] Pinning to taskbar isn't a function of Aero - I have a non-Aero theme (I quite liked Aero - I know it's a bit of a resource hog, but this machine has the capacity - but I found it interfered with my colour choices: I like my tooltips [and other things that share their colour] as yellow on brown, and Aero interfered with that), and I can still pin no problem. Color choice would be a problem for me too. My choice is yellow on burgundy [which matches my toolbar background]. bj Do you find some app.s use the tooltip background colour for their own purposes, but don't pick up the tooltip foreground colour - which means, if you have a dark background choice, they're almost illegible (e. g. black on brown)? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I'm the oldest woman on primetime not baking cakes. - Anne Robinson, RT 2015/8/15-21 |
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On 05/05/2018 08:52 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Rename the icon? Or rename the shortcut name? I use the term "Icon" and "Shortcut" interchangeably. Sorry for the confusion. |
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.bat on taskbar? (Now colours in Aero) and elsewhere)
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , chicagofan writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [] Pinning to taskbar isn't a function of Aero - I have a non-Aero theme (I quite liked Aero - I know it's a bit of a resource hog, but this machine has the capacity - but I found it interfered with my colour choices: I like my tooltips [and other things that share their colour] as yellow on brown, and Aero interfered with that), and I can still pin no problem. Color choice would be a problem for me too. My choice is yellow on burgundy [which matches my toolbar background]. bj Do you find some app.s use the tooltip background colour for their own purposes, but don't pick up the tooltip foreground colour - which means, if you have a dark background choice, they're almost illegible (e. g. black on brown)? Haven't noticed that, but it's probably because I don't use a lot of different apps. [Old fogey here.] bj |
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