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icons on taskbar suddenly stopped working ?

pennymakespounds
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hp pavilion laptop .. ie 11 ..... have got my dozen most used websites where i previously "pinned to taskbar" so i can quickly open with one click .

Suddenly they have all stopped working ?

Any ideas / advice ?

thanks

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  • Oblivion
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    I know it's an old clich!, but have you shut down and restarted your computer? That often solves a multitude of issues.
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  • grumbler
    grumbler Posts: 58,629 Forumite
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    I know, this doesn't answer the question, but wouldn't it be better to use a bookmarks toolbar instead?
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    pennymakespounds wrote: »
    Suddenly they have all stopped working ?

    What do you mean by "stopped working"? You mean you click them and nothing happens...?
  • pennymakespounds
    pennymakespounds Posts: 1,482 Forumite
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    esuhl ..... yes .
  • debitcardmayhem
    debitcardmayhem Posts: 12,980 Forumite
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    Windows 10/8/7 ? What happens(sorry what does it say) when you right click on them?
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  • pennymakespounds
    pennymakespounds Posts: 1,482 Forumite
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    debitcardmayhem Windows 7

    right click and there is a box listing

    Tasks
    news
    messages
    events
    friends

    start in private browsing

    unpin this
  • Strider590
    Strider590 Posts: 11,874 Forumite
    edited 8 May 2016 at 11:34PM
    Unpin everything and start again? The pinned items is controlled by a file and this file has a habit of becoming corrupted.

    Or preferably get rid of pinned items completely and restore the original "Quick Launch" toolbar that we all know and love.

    To do this right click the taskbar, uncheck the taskbar lock, select toolbars, select "new toolbar", then navigate to "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch", move it to where you want it and then relock the taskbar.

    Now you can basically use the old way of dragging shortcuts into the quicklaunch and be rid of this !!!!!! pinning business for good.

    Yes, I got rid of the pinned nonsense almost as soon as I installed Win7.
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  • redtreepr
    redtreepr Posts: 1 Newbie
    Upgrade to Win10 before you get forced to!
  • GunJack
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    ^^^^ with a big serving of ...

    :spam:
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  • Le_Kirk
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    GunJack wrote: »
    ^^^^ with a big serving of ...

    :spam:
    Agree it looks like the normal way, join up just to post something in favour of a product or service but why would MS (or anybody else for that matter) need to promote W10
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