Customize taskbar shortcut icon in Windows 7

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

Ok, back in the days of Windows XP and Vista I used to put a shortcut to one of my harddrives on my Quick Launch bar. Well, 7 doesn't include the Quicklaunch bar...so that's a no go. Of course I can open that drive in Windows Explorer, then pin it to the taskbar...but as soon as I close the window it defaults back to the Libraries folder...not what I want. I figured out that I can Shift + Right-click and that'll let me adjust the properties. Problem is, I like to set the icon to something else, too...and even though I change the icon in the properties, it doesn't stay after I close the properties window, it defaults back to the windows explorer icon:

And that's annoying, I like my icons. The icon only shows on the taskbar when I have the pinned program's properties open. It doesn't show when I open the shortcut, or when it's closed.

So I guess I have 2 questions: Is there any way to get that icon to stick and always display, and/or is there a Quick Launch replacement/alternative in Windows 7?

Thanks in advance.

 

[kimsland]

This may help: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/...-taskbar-pin-to-windows-explorer-alternative/

 

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

Those instructions didn't work. I can create the shortcut on the desktop no problem, change it's icon, but when I right-click it there's no option to pin it to the taskbar. And I usually just put E:\ in the shortcut target path, do I have to put that whole explorer.exe /e,::{CLSID} thing? I don't know the CLSID to put for my E: drive...how would I find that out?

 

[kimsland]

I thought the entire My Computer would be better myself
But oh well, obviously that guide must be wrong or something? Although others replied did say thanks

Anyway, I hope others here may provide a better process. As I'm not running Windows 7 myself

 

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

Well if you just know how to get the CLSID of my E: drive I'll be happy! That's all I need.

 

[Tmagic650]

Try dragging the icon to the taskbar, then choose "pin to taskbar"...

 

[gbhall]

What you want should be in here http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html or for another take on it http://techrepublic.com.com/5206-13...2&threadID=320461&start=0&tag=content;leftCol

 

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

I dunno what I did, but it magically started working. The icon started displaying properly and the shortcut takes me to the right place. Thanks for all your help guys!

 

[kimsland]

You don't know what you did?
Argh! That's irritating

 

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

Extremely so, because then if you have the problem again (which I will) you can't fix it without retracing all of the steps you took originally.

All I can note is that I (think I) restarted my computer, and I added the same shortcut to the Quick Launch folder (but didn't activate the Quick Launch bar). That's all I can think of.