Prevent Pinning of Access to Taskbar

[Perceptus]

How can I prevent the Pinning of the MS Access shortcut to the Taskbar?

[June7]

How could any application be open and not show on taskbar?

[Perceptus]

It appearing on the taskbar is fine. And really not showing an application on a taskbar is kinda simple .

But what I am after is preventing the Shortcut from being Pinned. When Access shortcut is pinned, then the front end doesn't open. Instead it opens access and lists files on the right side of the landing screen.

[June7]

I am not sure what you mean by 'shortcut is pinned'. I have a shortcut to frontend on desktop. Access opens to that db file and Access shows in the taskbar. If I open multiple databases, I have multiple Access icons on taskbar.

[Perceptus]

On windows 7 if your right click the icon on your task bar. you can set it to be pinned there. Or if you drag a shortcut to your task bar it will pin it also. Right click the shortcut and choose "Unpin" to unpin.

[June7]

Okay, just checked that and the option is to 'Pin this program to taskbar', not the file.

I still don't understand the requirement to 'prevent' pinning of MS Access. You want to pin the file but it pins the program?

[Perceptus]

Yes, so it pins Access instead of the Front End. Users end up just opening access and get too choose from a list of previously accessed databases that list locations on the server, not locations of the front ends on their local pc.

I would prefer they just opened the Front Ends and not entered access without using the shortcuts to their front end.

[June7]

I think desktop shortcut is only way. Educate users not to try pinning the file, if it is not already obvious to them by the 'Pin this program' option statement.

[Perceptus]

Found this
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...xclusion_lists

Adding MSAccess.exe to its own HKEY_CLASSS_ROOT>APPLICATIONS

Seems to be what i needed.