The pin feature on Windows 10 is useful for instant access to documents and applications. Drew Angerer/Getty Images You can pin applications and files to the Windows taskbar to allow you to access ...

If the program is already running, right-click the taskbar and choose Pin this program to the taskbar. If it's not running, find it in the Start menu, right-click, and choose Pin to Taskbar.

You can pin programs to the taskbar, pin data files to the programs, launch a program as an administrator, and do all sorts of other tricks. I’ve tested all of these in Windows 7 and 10.

In today's episode we'll show you how to pin a program to your taskbar in Windows 7. The taskbar is the long bar that shows your active applications on the bottom of your screen.

We've shown you one way to pin anything to your Windows 7 taskbar , but if you'd rather not install extra software, you can pin a document to your ta ...

Everyone digs the way you can pin stuff to the taskbar in Windows 7. It lets you open your most common programs without ever messing around in the Start menu, keeping everything right at your ...

Pinning Your Favorites on the Taskbar Users can pin programs and folders permanently on the Taskbar for quick access, even quicker than pinning them on the Start menu (see Win Start menu).

Windows 7's taskbar lets you pin any running program to the taskbar for easy future access, but it treats folders like second-class sub-items of the Explorer icon.

If implemented, the new setting will simultaneously set Chrome as the default browser and pin it to the Windows taskbar.