Windows 7 has came out with lots of new and exiting features. You may have noticed that, we can’t open My Computer directly from Windows 7 Taskbar aka Superbar.
If we drag N drop My computer to taskbar, it gets pinned to windows explorer rather than creating a new place for itself. Windows explorer opens libraries which irritates me and quite a lot of users. So, I’ve found a simple trick to pin My Computer to Windows 7 taskbar.
Follow the simple steps below to make it work for you:
1) Right click on Desktop, and select New > Shortcut.
2) In location of the item enter the following string exactly as given below:
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /E,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
3) Give a name to shortcut. For example, My Computer
4) Now you’ll see a new shortcut of ‘My Computer’ placed on desktop. It has the same icon like that of Windows explorer. You can change its icon if you wish.
5) To pin the shortcut to Windows 7 Taskbar, just right click on it and select “Pin to Taskbar”.
6) Enjoy! Your direct shortcut to My computer is pinned on taskbar now.
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Wonderful man, I really wanted to show up both (my computer as well as explorer).
Kewl stuff!
Slick!!!Im using Windows 7 latest build…It is really better than win xp and Vista as u have said earlier!
great !!!!!! thanks alot
This would be great, if it had a right click context menu to access properties, instead of just the drives. Properties is the main reason that I have this displayed on the desktop.
Thanks for the tip. I’ve actually pinned the normal Computer icon to the taskbar and modified the “Windows Explorer” entry with your shortcut. You get the nice context menu then with your frequent folders on it but if you just click the icon you get Computer open.. perfect!
but there is a simple way.
jus open my computer window.
in address bar you will have a my computer icon .just drag it to task bar.
Thank you very much for a solution.
Thanks m8
Cheers
Your instructions worked perfectly and solved a perplexing problem. Thanks for the post.
in windows xp I’ve always had the D: drive “pinned” to my taskbar. is there a way I can pin in windows 7 the drive ?
PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO PIN A FOLDER SHORT CUT TO TASKBAR