Taskbar folder does not contain all pinned items

Question

sab-f 51

In the following folder, it seems only Microsoft items are pinned and not all pinned items are listed.

"C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar."

Is this the correct folder for all pinned items?

I want to be able to backup everything that is pinned on the taskbar. How can I achieve this?

Thanks in advance.

Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points

2020-12-18T13:35:41.047+00:00

I have all items on my OS (Windows 10, 1909), most of them not MS applications
Rita Han - MSFT 2,171 Reputation points

2020-12-21T02:42:01.237+00:00

Hello @sab-f , on my Windows 10 20H2 machine, there are two pinned items not located in C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar. One is Chorme, it locates in \User Pinned\ImplicitAppShortcuts\d249d9ddd424b688. Another is a UWP application. Could you give some examples of application having this issue? And could you check if you can lanuch these applications via double clicking their executables (.exe) directly?

1 answer

Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points

2020-12-18T13:35:41.047+00:00

I have all items on my OS (Windows 10, 1909), most of them not MS applications
Rita Han - MSFT 2,171 Reputation points

2020-12-21T02:42:01.237+00:00

Hello @sab-f , on my Windows 10 20H2 machine, there are two pinned items not located in C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar. One is Chorme, it locates in \User Pinned\ImplicitAppShortcuts\d249d9ddd424b688. Another is a UWP application. Could you give some examples of application having this issue? And could you check if you can lanuch these applications via double clicking their executables (.exe) directly?

Answer 1

Castorix31 90,686

You can use IFlexibleTaskbarPinnedList interface, but it is not documented
You can find a sample from Google (To get fixed a shortcut to the taskbar icon)