From the Tips Box: Pin Any File to the Windows 7 Taskbar

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Published on Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:00:00 +0000 Indexed on 2011/06/24 0:25 UTC
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Every week we dip into the tip box and share the tips you send in. This week we’re highlighting a great tip and the accompanying tutorial video that shows you how to pin any file to the Windows 7 taskbar.

Robert Jasinski writes in with a clever way to pin any file you want to the task bar. By default if you drag a text document to the taskbar it will pin it to the Notepad executable—the same thing happens with any other file that has an association with an executable.

What if you want to pin that specific text file to the taskbar and not to the executable (or any other file for that matter)? Robert shares his method: 

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