tip: unable to pin to task bar

Hi All,

I had to screw around with a customer's compter that would not
allow him to drag or context clip "pin to taskbar" or "pin to
start menu". There are plenty off fixes out there for this,
but none worked. Mostly they were M$ articles with basically
told yo how to do it, not how to fix it.f Some gpedit solutions
and some registry solutions. And a lot o "You dummy! This is
how you do it!"

Anyway, after considerable research, I came up with the
following, and it finally worked.

-T


Unable To "Pin To Taskbar" and "Pin to Start Menu": Windows Registry fix:


There are other causes, but this fixes the ones I am seeing:

Rename the both following keys (*.000 or *.orig):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\FileAssociation\AddRemoveNames

and (64 bit machines only)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FileAssociation\Ad dRemoveNames


then do a real REBOOT to get them to take:

shutdown /r /f /t 00

stupid idiot, you cant do that if the task bar is locked. Try unlocking
it,
then use the command

On 11/17/2017 3:58 PM, T scribbled:
Hi All,

I had to screw around with a customer's compter that would not
allow him to drag or context clip "pin to taskbar" or "pin to
start menu". There are plenty off fixes out there for this,
but none worked. Mostly they were M$ articles with basically
told yo how to do it, not how to fix it.f Some gpedit solutions
and some registry solutions. And a lot o "You dummy! This is
how you do it!"

Anyway, after considerable research, I came up with the
following, and it finally worked.

-T


Unable To "Pin To Taskbar" and "Pin to Start Menu": Windows Registry fix:


There are other causes, but this fixes the ones I am seeing:

Rename the both following keys (*.000 or *.orig):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\FileAssociation\AddRemoveNames


and (64 bit machines only)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FileAssociation\Ad dRemoveNames



then do a real REBOOT to get them to take:

shutdown /r /f /t 00

On 11/17/2017 3:58 PM, T scribbled:
Hi All,

I had to screw around with a customer's compter that would not
allow him to drag or context clip "pin to taskbar" or "pin to
start menu". There are plenty off fixes out there for this,
but none worked. Mostly they were M$ articles with basically
told yo how to do it, not how to fix it.f Some gpedit solutions
and some registry solutions. And a lot o "You dummy! This is
how you do it!"

Anyway, after considerable research, I came up with the
following, and it finally worked.

-T


Unable To "Pin To Taskbar" and "Pin to Start Menu": Windows Registry
fix:


There are other causes, but this fixes the ones I am seeing:

Rename the both following keys (*.000 or *.orig):


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\FileAssociation\AddRemoveNames




and (64 bit machines only)


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FileAssociation\Ad dRemoveNames





then do a real REBOOT to get them to take:

shutdown /r /f /t 00

On 11/18/2017 11:46 AM, tesla sTinker wrote:
stupid idiot, you cant do that if the task bar is locked.Â* Try unlocking
it,
then use the command

What makes you think the task bar was locked? I even
checked the group policies and the locked task bar
registry settings. I went through all the M$ HowTo's
on the subject and then some.

Learn to read and watch the name calling.