Windows 10: Pin to taskbar option disappeared in Windows 11, why?

"Pin to taskbar" disappeared from my Windows 11 installation a while ago. I can live without it, but why did it disappear? I've reset everything I can think of and ran both sfc /scannow and dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth without success. Doing a clean install would probably solve it, but I have so many things I'd have to re-install so I'd really like to skip that if I can. Has anyone bumped into this problem and solved it?

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Quick Access is Always Empty and Can't Pin Folders + Taskbar Programs Menu Disappeared

Basically I can't pin anymore. I'm not getting an error when I pin. Whenever I pin it's not appearing in quick access. But it appears on the file explorer jump list on the taskbar. I already tried other solutions like emptying these locations:

• %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\

• %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations\
  

• %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\

but it doesn't work, it only made things worse. The jump list menu disappeared for pinned programs, like chrome ("start in incognito mode" and the like menus disappeared when i right clicked programs on taskbar).

Now i have 2 problems, quick access won't show my pinned folders and taskbar menu disappeared.

 

Need 'Pin To Taskbar' Option ...

This has been discussed before... Pin Any File To Taskbar in Windows 10

To pin any file to Taskbar (but Windows doesn't allow it), you have to:
-rename the file (say into file.exe)
-make a shortcut, and pin it to Taskbar
-open shortcut properties, and in "Target" rename the file back to what it was i.e. file.bat
-rename the original file back to file.bat (before you click apply in previous step)

 

Need 'Pin To Taskbar' Option ...

AndreTen - That work-around functions perfectly, thx!!!