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. Below procedure also works with Windows 8 Developer Preview.
Follow the simple steps below to Pin My Computer to Taskbar -
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
Excellent help – thanks very much. Sadly by “over simplifying” windows 7 they’re removed a lot of useful stuff
The shortcut works perfectly. What’s missing here is that you should change the icon for the shortcut to the classic My Computer icon. It is found in the basic icons available for explorer.
Thanks-Jeff
Thanks mate , but doing so will create another explorer.exe process which is unnecessary
Here’s a way to link my computer directly and much faster
1] Create a shortcut to My Computer on the desktop . Just drag it from the start menu to the desktop
2] Create a new text document. Change its filename and extension to “My Computer.exe”
3] Pin this My Computer.exe to the taskbar
4] Now Open “C:\Users\%User%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar”
5]Replace the shortcut My Computer [ the one linked to the .exe ] with the one on your desktop.
6] Click on the pinned item on the desktop .opening it will not create an extra explorer.exe process and it opens a tad bit faster too
Hi lordVJ,
What does replacing mean (step 5)? I could not get it working your way.
Please explain.
Thanks
how do you change the icon of the pinned mycomputer now in the taskbar?
Meant to reply to LordVJ….
how do you change the icon of the pinned mycomputer now in the taskbar?
Nevermind i got it.
lordVJ,
I was looking for just such a solution. Using the OP’s idea, when you open two folders, copy from one to the other, the close both folders, you’d expect the copy dialog to remain open; however since as you said, this was opening separate processes, when you closed the 2 windows, the copy dialog gets killed when you close the target folder.
Your solution doesn’t have that problem. There’s also has the added benefit of being able to left-click the shortcut when needing to open multiple windows, rather than right-clicking to open a new instance.
Thanks.
Thanks – that was so frustrating!!! This may be a really stupid question but I am now trying to add the personal folder with my name to the taskbar also and have the same problem. Where can I find that location code that I can copy and paste in the same was as I have now done with My Computer???
Thank You it worked for me
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