Pinning a shortcut, Win8

Supatramp

I've got a new laptop running Windows 8.
I've got a number of shortcuts pinned to the taskbar at the bottom of the screen.
The laptop came with everything on the 'C' drive, no 'D' drive, so I created a 'D' partition and moved My Documents to it. I then created a My Documents shortcut on the desktop with the intention of pinning it to the taskbar. However, it won't pin, even although other stuff I shortcutted to the desktop have pinned ok.
So........can anybody advise me accordingly please?

RobTang

You cant actually pin folder shortcuts to the taskbar (Its for programs only) but you can trick it into doing do.

Right click the shortcut you created on the desktop and goto properties.

In the target box add the word "explorer " to the start.

eg if it was "D:\docs" change it to "explorer \docs"

Click OK, you should now be able to pin the shortcut to the taskbar

Supatramp

Thanks, but that didn't work.

When I did what you suggested, and clicked 'Apply', I got the following message; "The name 'explorer \My Documents' specified in the Target box is not valid. Make sure path and filename are correct.

RobTang

it needs to be

explorer.exe "D:\My Documents"

because you have a space in your folder name

Supatramp

After preceding with "explorer.exe", it has now become as follows:

C:\Windows\explorer.exe \MyDocuments

That will pin now, but clicking on it does nothing!!!

debitcardmayhem

it needs to be C:\Windows\explorer.exe "D:\My Documents"
I would guess it needs the quotation marks since the folder has a space in its name

Supatramp

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

it needs to be C:\Windows\explorer.exe "D:\My Documents"
I would guess it needs the quotation marks since the folder has a space in its name

Thanks for your help, sorted! :beer: