Question by : Windows 7 “Pin to Task Bar” ?
What is the significance of “Pin to Task Bar”, and why has Microsoft taken something that was so simple in XP (just drag and drop to taskbar) and make it so labor intensive and made such a big deal of it? Then, when you want to bring back your Quick Start menu, if you can actually get the QS tool bar back over to the left side where it used to be, the tabs are so long, it makes having the QS tool bar useless.
Why does MS insist on completely changing things that we’ve learned to use. If I wanted my PC to act like a Mac, I’d have bought a Mac. I’m just sayin’…
Interesting that my first day with Windows 7, I get frustrated with another MS product, post a question, and someone calls me a troll. Gotta love these people.
Best answer:
Answer by Hanyuu
Ok, let’s see. Take desktop icon. Drag to taskbar. Oh look! It’s pinned?
How is this any harder than before? I smell troll.
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the windows 7 GUI is amazing how can you not like it?
I agree it’s a blatant copy of the Mac’s “dock” concept. But I have found it to be very intuitive. Rather than having two kinds of icons on your taskbar (the quick launch icons and the running programs icons), you only have one. That way launching a program and accessing a running program work the same (no more accidentally re-launching a program that’s already running because you don’t see it on your taskbar).
So, pinning to your taskbar is the same as the quick launch bar, except that there’s no difference between a running and non-running program anymore. They both just sit on the taskbar.
I have been really annoyed with some of Microsoft’s “enhancements” lately. Especially the “ribbon” (which has successfully turned me into an Office moron). But the new Windows 7 taskbar has grown on me considerably.