Windows 8 In Depth

Pinning a Favorite Program to the Taskbar

In Chapter 4, you learned that you can pin an icon for your favorite program to the Start screen. That’s great if you spend time in the Start screen, but it’s not much of a productivity booster if you spend most of your time in the Desktop app. And by far the biggest problem with the Windows 8 desktop is that the old Start menu is gone, so launching programs is a real hassle. You also learned in Chapter 4 how to access Start menu items from the taskbar, but that solution requires several clicks to launch a program. We live in a “multiple clicks bad, one click good” world, so what you really need is a faster way of launching programs while working in the Desktop app.

That way is, of course, the taskbar, ...