Saturday, July 19, 2025

Pin Shortcut to Taskbar in Windows 11 for Diskless Environtment

Case : Pin Menu Order shortcut to the taskbar in Windows 11. Each Pc has a different link menu that identifies the pc name.

- First create each shortcut for all the Pc.

- Create new document, then paste the following script . Then save it as "Menu.bat" :
@echo off
if %computername% equ HIGH1 copy "Menu Order HIGH1.lnk" "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Menu Order.lnk" & copy "Menu Order HIGH1.lnk" "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\Menu Order.lnk"
if %computername% equ HIGH2 copy "Menu Order HIGH2.lnk" "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Menu Order.lnk" & copy "Menu Order HIGH2.lnk" "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\Menu Order.lnk"
if %computername% equ HIGH3 copy "Menu Order HIGH3.lnk" "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Menu Order.lnk" & copy "Menu Order HIGH3.lnk" "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\Menu Order.lnk"
if %computername% equ HIGH4 copy "Menu Order HIGH4.lnk" "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Menu Order.lnk" & copy "Menu Order HIGH4.lnk" "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\Menu Order.lnk"
if %computername% equ HIGH5 copy "Menu Order HIGH5.lnk" "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Menu Order.lnk" & copy "Menu Order HIGH5.lnk" "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\Menu Order.lnk"
exit

- Boot up one of the Pc normally. Pin the shorcut manually to the taskbar.

- Export the following registry and save it as "taskbar.reg" . Then copy this reg file to Server :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband]

 - Create new document, then paste the following script . Then save it as "startup.bat" :
@echo off
regedit /s taskbar.reg
powershell set-executionpolicy remotesigned
powershell stop-process -name explorer –force
exit

- Set the menu.bat and startup.bat  files to run when windows start or log on in client pc.

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