Placing a link / shortcut to a web page on your task bar in Windows 11

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Sometimes Windows 11 is sooooooo annoying.

Place a link to a webpage on your desktop... works. Drag it to the taskbar... can't pin it.

Why oh why? Well, here's the work-around...

Pin a shortcut to a batch file on the taskbar

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Sometimes you just need a shortcut to a batch file. Now that's easy. But sometimes you want to place that shortcut on the task bar, and that is slightly more complicated.

This approach appears to work on Windows 10 and 11.

Creating Shortcuts to Batchfiles in Windows 11

Windows

Why make things easy... You can only create links to .exe files now on Windows 11, but there's a way around that as well. It just takes a little effort.

Here's how to create a taskbar shortcut to a batch file in Windows 11:

Windows 10 shortcuts to batch files and Store Apps

Windows

Windows 10 is pretty inconsistent when it comes to creating and pinning shortcuts. Here's some information if you need to pin a shortcut to a batchfile to the taskbar, if you want to create a desktop shortcut to a Microsoft Store App, or if you want to automate stuff...

Chrome - home button, pin to taskbar, default page on new tab, custom homepage

Chrome is my favorite browser. It has an important place in my daily workflow, but by organizing things a little I save a couple of clicks on every startup, adding up to quite a few clicks per day.

Shortcuts to Windows 10 (and other) settings

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Sometimes it's easier to have a shortcut to some Windows 10 option directly from the desktop. Here's a list of all (well, some 😁) options... 

Update: Many of these (still / also) work in Windows 11!