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See How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy. You would need to mess with Windows registry. The pinned items are actually controlled by group policy. Where is it? You might have found out that the pinned items are at: %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBarĪnd they are regular, good old, shortcuts. It is hard to consider all cases (what if the taskbar is hidden, what if it is not in the usual place, what if explorer is not running, etc.), but you can imagine setting the pointer position and sending keys.Īnother way would be to write directly to the list. It is not guaranteed to work, much less in the next Windows update.Thus, the answer is "Please don't do it".Īlright, some application do manage to pin, how do they do it? Besides, it has been a big trouble for Microsoft to decouple the shell as it is.įurther reading Why is there no programmatic access to the Start menu pin list?. And then somebody finds it and calls it directly. Yes, that is malware.Īnd no, an API for only the calling executable is not viable, it would mean that somewhere deep in the operating system the function call to do it for any executable exists. If such API existed, imagine how easy would it be to write a "joke program" that replaces all your pins. You install compnay A product and it unpins company B product. It means applications fighting for screen space. Giving access to user preferences via API means developers start exploiting it. Why? Because otherwise, every application would do it. Microsoft goes in great length to prevent applications altering user preferences.

As per pinning it you should not do it.ĭon't ask for support for pinning, here is why

If that is what you want, you have to do nothing. Unless you have set it to not show there.

When you minimize your window, by default, it will be minimized in the taskbar.