Pinning a Program to the Taskbar
We showed you earlier in this chapter how to pin an app to the Start screen for one-click access. That’s great if you spend most of your time in the new interface, but it doesn’t do you much good if you’re a dedicated desktop denizen. Accessing the Start menu items from the taskbar, as we described in the previous task, is great, but it can take a few clicks to launch some items, so it’s not the most efficient way to start those programs you use frequently.
A better way to go is to pin your favorite programs to the Desktop app’s taskbar, which puts those programs just a click away.
You can pin a program to the taskbar either from the Start screen or from the desktop. First, here’s the Start screen method:
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