Windows 10: my taskbar is not letting me pin items to it.

All the app's which were already pinned to the taskbar disappeared for whatever reason, I do not know it has happened before. Now I am trying to re-add them back to the bar, I click on the "pin to taskbar" option when given it, he icon shows up on the bar but when I close the program the icon disappears. Or, the icon never shows in the first place if the "pin to taskbar" option is available when the app is not fully open on the screen

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Is there a limit on pinned taskbar items?

You can only have up to 12 pinned items on any program.

What I suggest is making a folder with all the icons [RDP files] to the machines and pin it as a toolbar:

1. Create a folder named Remote Desktop (can be any name)
   
2. Right click on empty space on taskbar
   
3. Select Toolbars
   
4. Click New Toolbar
   
5. Locate to the folder and select it
   

(I suggest you keep them more organized, however.)





My pinned folder is the programs folder.

 

Moving pinned items on Windows 10 taskbar

Thanks for your reply.

Just in case this was a result of a poor description of the problem by me, I will explain in detail.

I have Excel permanently pinned to the taskbar. When I right click the Excel tile, the context menu shows a list of Pinned items at the top and Recent items below that. I believe these are called jump lists.

When I hover over an item on the Pinned list a push pin (), overlaid with a no entry sign (), is displayed to the right of the item.

I can click on the pin to unpin it from the pinned list.

Under Windows 7, I was able to left click on an item in the pinned list and drag it up or down to a different position in the list. This drag and drop functionality has never worked for me under Windows 10. As I noted in my original post,
the only way to resequence pinned items it to unpin all items then repin in the desired sequence.

Do you know if the drag/drop functionality will be re-introduced in the Windows 10 anniversary update?

 

Pin Files to Jump List on Taskbar Items by Dragging?

OK. Can I create a jump list item by dragging the file onto the icon in the taskbar, or do I have to pin it from the recent files list?