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‎Mar 26, 2013
04:40 AM
Pin to Taskbar (Win7)
The only way I can start InstallShield at the moment is to type 'Install' in the Start button menu or navigate through All Programs. Once it has started I would like to pin it to the Taskbar, but when I right click on the button the only option is to Close Window. This is the only application on my system that I can't pin!
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‎Mar 26, 2013
01:37 PM
Hmm. I haven't encountered this behavior. I've always had the option to pin to the taskbar. What happens if you use Explorer to browse to isdev.exe (the file that the InstallShield shortcut launches) and right-click it? Do you have a Pin to Taskbar option if you do that? It's located in InstallShield Program Files Folder\System.
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‎Mar 27, 2013
04:11 AM
Yes, isdev.exe has the option to pin to taskbar.
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‎Mar 27, 2013
04:30 AM
There's most likely some heuristic in Windows that prevents pinning of shortcuts containing certain keywords. In addition to InstallShield, I've had similar issues with Help & Manual back in the day, but they seem to have solved it. So you can either pin isdev.exe as mentioned in earlier post or temporarily rename the InstallShield shortcut to something that doesn't contain the word Install.
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‎Mar 27, 2013
08:32 AM
Right. Windows does not allow pinning of shortcuts or programs that contain any of the following strings:
Programs with those strings in their names are also not eligible to show up in the most frequently used list.
More information is available here:
Application User Model IDs (AppUserModelIDs)
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Programs with those strings in their names are also not eligible to show up in the most frequently used list.
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‎Mar 27, 2013
08:46 AM
Interestingly, I tried opening InstallShield by double-clicking an ism file and now I get the Pin to Taskbar option on the right-click menu. But when I close that instance the button disappears from the Taskbar.
Renaming the Start menu shortcut does allow pinning and it seems to stick.
Renaming the Start menu shortcut does allow pinning and it seems to stick.
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‎Mar 27, 2013
08:55 AM
So it's not pinned at all? Sorry about that. I'm having trouble remembering how I got the pinning to work on my machine. Can you create a shortcut to isdev.exe, and then pin that shortcut to your taskbar? Hopefully that pinning instance will stick.
I vaguely now remember something about how using isdev.exe's pinning option may be a problem since it has "install" in its resource block. Creating a shortcut to isdev.exe and then pinning the shortcut (as long as the shortcut does not have "install" or any of the other referenced words in it) will hopefully work.
I vaguely now remember something about how using isdev.exe's pinning option may be a problem since it has "install" in its resource block. Creating a shortcut to isdev.exe and then pinning the shortcut (as long as the shortcut does not have "install" or any of the other referenced words in it) will hopefully work.
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‎Mar 27, 2013
08:59 AM
It is pinned now, after I renamed the Start menu shortcut.
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‎Mar 27, 2013
09:03 AM
Phew. I'm glad you got it working.