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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
