Pin "My Computer" And Other Special Shortcuts to the Taskbar
Windows 7 allows you to pin your favorite programs to Taskbar so that you can access them quickly whenever you want. To pin a program to Taskbar you just need to right-click on its shortcut and select "Pin to Taskbar" option::
 

  1. First you'll need to create a new shortcut. To do this, right-click on Desktop and select "New >> Shortcut":
     

  2. It'll launch "Create Shortcut" wizard. Now you'll need to enter the command to open desired system shortcut. You can use any of following commands to create the desired shortcut:

    3. explorer shell:MyComputerFolder (for My Computer shortcut)
    explorer shell:RecycleBinFolder (for Recycle Bin shortcut)
    explorer shell:ControlPanelFolder (for Control Panel shortcut)
    explorer shell:Administrative Tools (for Administrative Tools shortcut)
    explorer shell:ChangeRemoveProgramsFolder (for Programs and Features shortcut)
    explorer shell:NetworkPlacesFolder (for Network shortcut)
    explorer shell:Favorites (for Favorites shortcut)
    explorer shell:Games (for Games shortcut)
    explorer shell:Fonts (for Fonts shortcut)
    explorer shell:UserProfiles (for Users folder shortcut)
    explorer shell:Profile (for your username folder shortcut)
    explorer shell:Public (for Public folder shortcut)
    explorer shell:My Documents (for Documents shortcut)
    explorer shell:Common Documents (for Public Documents shortcut)
    explorer shell:My Music (for Music folder shortcut)
    explorer shell:CommonMusic (for Public Music folder shortcut)
    explorer shell:My Pictures (for Pictures folder shortcut)
    explorer shell:CommonPictures (for Public Pictures folder shortcut)
    explorer shell:My Video (for Videos folder shortcut)
    explorer shell:CommonVideo (for Public Videos folder shortcut)
    explorer shell:Downloads (for Downloads folder shortcut)
    explorer shell:CommonDownloads (for Public Downloads folder shortcut)
  3. After entering the command, click on "Next" button. Now enter a meaningful name for your new shortcut and click on "Finish" button.
  4. It'll create a new shortcut on Desktop:
  5. Now its time to change the new shortcut icon. Right-click on the shortcut and select "Properties". Click on "Change Icon" button.
  6. Now you can browse and select any desired icon. I recommend you use imageres.dll file for selecting the new icon as this file contains lots of good looking icons:
  7. After selecting the new icon, click on OK and then Apply the changes.
  8. Now you just need to pin this new shortcut to Taskbar. You can either drag-n-drop the shortcut to Taskbar or right-click on the shortcut and select "Pin to Taskbar" option:

That's it. You can pin as many shortcuts as you want to Taskbar using this tutorial:

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