How to pin a drive to the Taskbar to open it quickly

The Taskbar on Windows 10 has a lot of useful uses, when users know how to customize the Taskbar to use, such as pinning folders to the Windows Taskbar for quick access. Or you can pin the drive to the Taskbar to open whenever you need it, without access to This PC in the traditional way. We can comfortably pin any drive into the Taskbar with a very simple implementation. The following article will guide you how to pin a folder to the Taskbar.

How to pin a drive to the Taskbar

Step 1:

In the folder you want to pin down the Taskbar, right-click and select Create shortcut .

Step 2:

Return to the desktop, right-click the newly created drive shortcut and select Properties from the displayed list.

Step 3:

Now display the dialog interface, we click on the Shortcut tab and continue to enter explorer in front of the drive name . Press Enter to continue.

Now the shortcut icon of the drive changes into the Explorer icon. To change back to a drive icon, in the Shortcut Properties interface, click on Change Icon .

Now show the icon change interface. Here you enter the address C: Windowssystem32imageres.dll and press Enter to display more icons. Here you select the drive icon and then click OK to use. Finally click Apply at the interface of Shortcut Properties dialog box to apply.

Step 4:

Finally, users just need to drag the shortcut of the drive down to the Taskbar and use is done. When you do not want to pin the drive under the Taskbar, right-click and select Unpin from taskbar.

With a simple way, users can pin the drive down the Taskbar to use. This operation is applied to all other drives in the computer.

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I wish you successful implementation!