Yes, it worked like a charm. Odd that the characteristics need to be different in order to pin, but indeed it does. The actual file created resides in
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\<web site title>.website Note the ".website" extension Dave Carlson Soon-to-be Oregonian, retired, full-time Farfar, musician, and woodworker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kimber Gardner" <[email protected]> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 3:42 AM Subject: Re: Pinning a web site to the windows 7 taskbar Thanks David. This sounds like it would work, but I will probably stick with the hot key method as it does more or less what I need. On 4/28/14, David Bailes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kimber, > the only keyboard method that I know about for pinning a website to the > taskbar in windows 7 is a two stage process: add the website to the start > menu, and from there pin it to the task bar. With the page open in > internet > explorer: > 1. On the tools menu, choose add site to start menu. A dialog opens giving > details of what it's going to, including that the website will be added to > all programs section of the start menu. > 2. press the add button of this dialog. > 3. Open the start menu. Select the website shortcut either by searching > for > it, or moving to it in the all programs section. Open its context menu, > and > choose pin to taskbar. > > Additional notes: > 1. After pinning to the taskbar, if you want to you can delete the > shortcut > from all programs. > 2. After pinning to the taskbar, if you search for the website from the > start menu you'll get two results for the website: the shortcut in all > programs, and the item pinned to the taskbar. > > David. > > original message: > Hi All, I know it should be possible to pin a web site to my windows 7 > taskbar. The instructions I found say to right click the tab of the > desired site then arrow down until I reach the option to pin to > taskbar. But when I right click I get the menu that says move, > minimize, maximize etc. rather than the menu with the option I'm > looking for. I think I am not right clicking the correct thing. Could > someone explain for me, keystroke by keystroke, how to accomplish this? > Thanks, > Kimber -- > Kimberly > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Kimberly _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
