{"id":414,"date":"2015-04-02T17:44:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/?p=414"},"modified":"2015-04-02T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:44:58","slug":"unpin-icons-from-windows-7-taskbar-no-right-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/2015\/04\/02\/unpin-icons-from-windows-7-taskbar-no-right-click\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpin icons from Windows 7 taskbar when right-click menu doesn&#8217;t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I needed to do this today, after refreshing my Firefox install. The icon on the taskbar still worked, but obviously wasn&#8217;t behaving properly. So I opened Firefox from the desktop shortcut, pinned the new icon, then tried to delete the old one. No right click menu.<\/p>\n<p>So I googled, as you do, and found various solutions. A lot of sites, including Microsoft themselves, provided command line instructions that deleted ALL the pinned icons. I thought, surely that&#8217;s a bit drastic. Found other fixes too, but they either weren&#8217;t explained very well, or didn&#8217;t make any sense at all.<\/p>\n<p>So I devised a method based on all the posts I&#8217;ve read, but which is basically a refinement of <a title=\"Opens a Microsoft Answers page for this problem\" href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows_7-desktop\/cant-unpin-a-program-from-the-taskbar\/76e9bbc7-8717-4156-ab72-c9ac975dd6e9\" target=\"_blank\">this solution from Microsoft<\/a>. It may not work for you. But hopefully it will. It did for me.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Navigate to C:\\Users\\{your username}\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Quick Lauch\\User Pinned\\Taskbar. (Your AppData folder is a hidden folder, so if you don&#8217;t usually have hidden items visible, go to your User folder, then add \\AppData to the end of the contents of the address bar.)<\/li>\n<li>In that list, find the shortcut that corresponds to the icon on the taskbar you want to get rid of and delete it. It may vanish at this point. Mine didn&#8217;t. If yours doesn&#8217;t either, carry on with these instructions.<\/li>\n<li>Start Task Manager<\/li>\n<li>Go to the Processes tab.<\/li>\n<li>Find &#8216;explorer.exe&#8217; and End Process. Don&#8217;t panic when your taskbar disappears.<\/li>\n<li>Go to the Applications tab.<\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8220;New Task&#8230;&#8221; at the bottom right.<\/li>\n<li>Type explorer.exe and click OK.<\/li>\n<li>Taskbar should come back, hopefully minus the unwanted icon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully this has solved your problem. If not, you could try the Microsoft solution I refined to make this work. But you&#8217;ll have to repin all the apps you want if you do that. I just thought that was a bit of overkill for one icon \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I needed to do this today, after refreshing my Firefox install. The icon on the taskbar still worked, but obviously wasn&#8217;t behaving properly. So I opened Firefox from the desktop shortcut, pinned the new icon, then tried to delete the old one. No right click menu. So I googled, as you do, and found various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[46,49,18,50,52,48,53,51,34,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techiefairy.co.uk\/fragolino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}