Windows 10: Pin .cmd/bat files to taskbar

Some UWP apps look very out of place on my taskbar and I wanted to change the icons. The only way I found looking instead of editing in MS Visual Studio was to make a run command and that opens the app. However, I can't pin it to the taskbar. I tried .bat but that didn't work too. The only way around it was a toolbar but that causes a total disaster because I use centered icons. BTW I use SIB.

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Cannot unpin an Excel file from the Taskbar

Step "1. Try the following steps in Option One of this tutorial", worked. I searched the mentioned folders for the name of my pinned Excel file with a .lnk extension and found it. However, even after deleting it, the
file was still pinned to Excel in the Taskbar. I had to delete all of the files in the three folders as specified in the Reset_and_Clear_Recent_Items.bat file. Unfortunately this means that all other items I had pinned and all lists
of recent items are also gone. I guess there is no way to just unpin one item using a similar method.

The offending pinned Excel file is gone but it will take a bit of time and work to put back all of my other pinned items and find all the items I recently worked on.

It's interesting that the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent folder referred to in the .bat file does not appear in Windows Explorer, only in a CMD window. Because of this, I was unable to delete the contents of the three folders specified in the .bat file
in Explorer. I had to do it in a CMD window either using the .bat file or typing the folder names manually. I'm not sure why two different sets of folders and files are visible depending on whether you look with Windows Explorer or a CMD window.

 

pin batch file to taskbar

Put the .bat file somewhere stationary, change it to a .exe, drag and pin it to Taskbar, change the file back to .bat, change the pinned shortcut back to .bat, restart Explorer.

 

How to pin either a Shortcut or a Batch file to the new Windows 7, 8 and 10 Taskbar and start menu?

This thread nearly answers my problem, another thread worth reading that solves these issues in a different way is here:Adding Batch Files to Windows 7 Taskbar like the Vista/XP Quick Launch

I was able to add a batchfile to the taskbar by the following steps:

1. Renaming your .cmd/.bat to to .exe
   
2. Right clicking on the *.exe and choose pin to taskbar
   
3. Renaming it back to .cmd/.bat
   
4. Shift+right clicking the taskbar icon (for the exe) and choose properties
   
5. Changing the reference from *.exe to .cmd/.bat and change icon as needed
   

It starts working right away but the icon refresh needs a reboot.

I have an additional question though: how do you get a pinned taskbar batch file accepting another file as a parameter? It works when pinned onto the startbar, or just in the folder, but I can't get it working like it did on XP.

This is the functionality I'm talking about: