{"id":234,"date":"2007-05-31T06:42:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T11:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/31\/efficiency-tip-38-pin-things\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:14:20","slug":"efficiency-tip-38-pin-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/31\/efficiency-tip-38-pin-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #38 &#8211; Pin Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/pinnedarea.png\" alt=\"pinnedarea.png\" title=\"pinnedarea.png\" \/>The first tip I gave you was to use the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/04\/23\/efficiency-tip-1\/\">Windows key<\/a> to open the Start menu.\u00a0 The top area of the Start menu is customizable\u00a0and it\u00a0is called the Pin area.\u00a0 You can &#8220;pin&#8221; any application there giving you quick access to the things you use most.<\/p>\n<p>You may have noticed the programs you use most are at the bottom of the start menu.\u00a0 Windows will keep track of the six (that&#8217;s the default number but you can change it) programs you use the most and will automatically place them there.\u00a0 The order of the placement is based on the number of times each program is used.\u00a0 More use makes the program move higher in the list.\u00a0 This is the &#8220;popular&#8221; list and it can change often.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a &#8220;popular&#8221; program permanently placed at the top of the Windows Start menu (the Pin area), right-click the program in the Start menu and select Pin To Start Menu.\u00a0 If you pin a popular program it will disappear from the\u00a0popular area and reappear in the pin area.\u00a0\u00a0Windows won&#8217;t show it in both places.<\/p>\n<p>The program doesn&#8217;t have to be in the popular area to be pinned.\u00a0 You can pin any shortcut or executable from any part of the Start menu.<\/p>\n<p>You can also rearrange shortcuts in the pinned area.\u00a0 If you want a certain program at the top of the Start menu, click and drag the shortcut to the location you desire.<\/p>\n<p>TSPY=2.19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first tip I gave you was to use the Windows key to open the Start menu.\u00a0 The top area of the Start menu is customizable\u00a0and it\u00a0is called the Pin area.\u00a0 You can &#8220;pin&#8221; any application there giving you quick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/31\/efficiency-tip-38-pin-things\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}