Pinning items to taskbar Windows 7

[FN-GM]

Hi,

I am using this script to pin items to the Windows 7 Task par. I pin Outlook and Internet Explorer. It works a treat on x86 but on x64 machines internet explorer has issues.

The icon appears but when you click it another icon appears like the attached.

Sometimes the user gets an error saying that the location is unavailable and do you want to remove it.

I am pointing it to the x86 version of IE.

Any thoughts please?

Thanks

[Ric_]

Do you really want to use the x64 version of IE? A lot of browser plugins hate it and I've seen some odd things happen with it.

[FN-GM]

I did mean to put i am pointing to the x86 version. Typo

[FN-GM]

Can i bump this please?

[Steve21]

Can i bump this please?

Can you post the exact script you're using, can't seem to replicate it

Steve

[Arthur]

Can I bump this please?

Have you tried the PowerShell equivalent?

Pin and unpin applications from the taskbar and Start-menu « TechNet Script Center

[FN-GM]

@Steve21 this is my batch file with the same VBS in the orginal link

:: Set Environment
 @echo OFF
 CLS
 TITLE Taskbar Customization Tool
 COLOR 3f
 PROMPT $s
 
SET UsrPinTBar="%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar"
 
:: *** Usage - Pin.vbs
 :: *** WScript.exe "%~dp0\%~dp0\Pin.vbs" [drive:][path]filename [Argument]
 :: *** [Arguments] = 0 1 2
 :: *** 0 = Unpin from Taskbar
 :: *** 1 = Pin to Taskbar
 :: *** 2 = Install
 
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:: Identify Windows Version
 :: *** Assign ver output to variable VerResult ***
 FOR /F "delims=" %%A IN ('ver') Do Set VerResult=%%A
 
:: *** Parse VerResult and assign variable according to OS version ***
 ECHO "%VerResult%" | find "Version 6.1" > nul && GOTO Windows7Var
 ECHO "%VerResult%" | find "Version 6.0" > nul && GOTO WindowsVistaVar
 ECHO "%VerResult%" | find "Version 5" > nul && GOTO :WindowsXPVar
 ECHO Error - Unexpected Version Information
 GOTO EOF
 
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:Windows7Var
 IF %processor_architecture%==x86 GOTO 7x86Var
 IF %processor_architecture%==AMD64 GOTO 7x64Var
 IF %processor_architecture%==IA64 GOTO 7x64Var
 GOTO EOF
 
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:WindowsVistaVar
 ECHO This PC is running Windows Vista
 :: *** Unsupported ***
 GOTO EOF
 
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:WindowsXPVar
 ECHO This PC is running Windows XP
 :: *** Unsupported ***
 GOTO EOF
 
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:7x86Var
 ECHO This PC is running Windows 7 32Bit

:: *** ADD Shortcuts ***
 WScript.exe "%~dp0\Pin.vbs" "%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" 1
 WScript.exe "%~dp0\Pin.vbs" "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE" 1
 WScript.exe "%~dp0\Pin.vbs" "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" 1
 GOTO EOF
 
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:7x64Var
 ECHO This PC is running Windows 7 64Bit
 
:: *** ADD Shortcuts ***
 WScript.exe "%~dp0\Pin.vbs" "%ProgramFiles% (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" 1
 WScript.exe "%~dp0\Pin.vbs" "%ProgramFiles% (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE" 1
 WScript.exe "%~dp0\Pin.vbs" "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE" 1
 WScript.exe "%~dp0\Pin.vbs" "%ProgramFiles% (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" 1
 GOTO EOF
 
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:EOF

@Arthur i will give it a try.

[Steve21]

@Steve21 this is my batch file with the same VBS in the orginal link

May be missing the obvious, but what script in the original link? All the ones in the ZIP file don't work with your bat file. Or was this the pre 2009 version?

Steve