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How To Pin This PC (Computer Icon) To Taskbar In Windows 10/8/7

Last Updated on April 23, 2019 by admin 14 Comments

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Windows Explorer has been renamed to File Explorer in Windows 10/8, and the My Computer is now called This PC. In Windows 10, the File Explorer opens to the new Quick Access by default instead of This PC.

Although you can configure the File Explorer in Windows 10 to open to This PC instead of Quick Access, many users don’t want to change it as Quick Access shows recently opened files and frequently opened folders.

In Windows 10, when you right-click on the File Explorer icon on the taskbar, it will open the Quick Access. If you would like to open This PC quickly, you can consider pinning This PC to the taskbar in Windows 10.

pin this pc to Windows 10 taskbar

Pin This PC to Windows 10 taskbar

Step 1: In the Start/taskbar search field, type This PC and then hit the Enter key to see This PC in search results.

Step 2: Right-click on This PC entry and then click the Pin to the taskbar option to pin This PC icon to the taskbar.

pin this pc to Windows 10 taskbar

You can now click on the newly added This PC icon on the taskbar to quickly open This PC.

Pin computer icon to Windows 7 taskbar

One of the best features of Windows 7 is the new taskbar. It lets you pin programs to the taskbar, similar to pinning programs to Start menu in the earlier versions of the Windows operating system.

Pin computer to taskbar

When you pin a favorite program to the taskbar, it can be easily accessed with a single click. If you want to have a clutter-free desktop, you might want to pin Computer and Recycle Bin icons to the Taskbar for the easy access.

But pinning the Computer icon to the taskbar is not possible by default. Generally, Windows 7 displays Pin to taskbar option when you right-click on a program, but you can’t see Pin to the taskbar option for Computer.

In order to pin Computer to Windows 7 taskbar, you need to do a small workaround. Here is how to:

1. First, right-click on Windows 7 desktop > New > Shortcut.

2. Enter the below address location of item filed, and click the Next button.

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe shell:MyComputerFolder

Create shortcut

3. In the next window, type in a name for the shortcut (Ex: My Computer). Click on the Finish button to see a new shortcut icon on the desktop.

4. You can now drag and drop your new shortcut icon on to the taskbar to pin it. But if you want to decorate the new shortcut with the default Computer icon, you need to follow the next two steps.

5. Right-click on the shortcut icon (new icon), go to Properties. Click on change icon button and enter the below address in the file location box.

%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll

Change icon

6. Now select the Computer icon and click the Apply button. Pin the icon to the taskbar either by right-clicking and selecting “Pin to Taskbar” option or by dragging the icon to the taskbar.

Filed Under: Windows 7 Guides Tagged: taskbar, Windows 7

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Comments

  1. ganesh says

    June 18, 2019 at 4:52 pm

    Awesome post! It is very much helping. But can I pin any icon using this method? If yes. then can I also give any icon image because I have downloaded some software? I want to pin them to my taskbar. So, there will be no icon of that software in pc. So how can I do that?

  2. pjcamp says

    September 15, 2014 at 2:51 am

    When you use this method, you spawn spurious explorer.exe processes. What happens is that any time you open explorer somewhere other than Libraries and then close it, it actually crashes rather than closes. Click on it 20 times and you’ll have 20 explorer processes running, consuming memory. There doesn’t appear to be a way to fix this that I can find.

  3. Eoin says

    April 5, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    Worked a treat. Thanks! Wonder if there’s a way to change the icon?

  4. DJM says

    February 28, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    Thank you. Works great.
    How do I change the icon?

  5. Nike says

    December 30, 2012 at 5:21 am

    Great tutorial, works well!

  6. j sanchez says

    April 2, 2011 at 4:51 am

    thanx much!!!!!

  7. lordvj says

    July 9, 2010 at 6:24 pm

    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

  8. Parth says

    January 9, 2010 at 9:29 pm

    This is very useful tip. Thanks a lot for this effort.

  9. Pinchas says

    December 18, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    Great! and simple too. But now the 64,000 $$$ question: Why did Microsoft disable the Pin to taskbar function with “Computer”? Hopefully they’ll ameliorate this irritating bug in SP 1.

  10. axmeen says

    August 17, 2009 at 10:05 am

    Wow great ttick. Thanks alot

  11. Yonathan says

    June 29, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Works perfectly. Thank you.
    I wonder why they didn’t enable pinning Computer to the taskbar.

  12. Gidi D says

    June 14, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    Wow!! The most helpful tip i never saw!
    thanks you so much!

  13. sgt-d says

    June 12, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    i actually figured this out using the shell: command and pinning it, i found your page since i’m trying to get the taskbar icon to show off all of my custom “shell” context menu additions. i’ve added the “top 20” windows commands, but i only see them when i right click “computer” in the start menu or on my desktop. once pinned, the pinned icon won’t display the new menu on right click OR shift + right click. grr! :)

  14. franz dibbler says

    June 2, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    I’m all for a cleaner desktop but by pinning this to the taskbar you lose the benefits of “manage” and “properties” in contextual menu. It seems to open a bit slower than the My Computer icon on the desktop.

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