How to get verb for pin to taskbar in Windows 10?

Question

I'm trying to pin an exe to taskbar in windows 10. But I'm not able to find verb for pin/unpin to taskbar.

I have tried the same code on windows 7 and 8.1 machine, its working fine, but its not working on windows 10 machine.

VB Code:

Dim ShellApp, Desktop
    ShellApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
    Desktop = ShellApp.NameSpace("C:\ProgramData\ABC.exe").Parsename("ABC.exe").invokeverb("taskbarpin")

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

This issue was reported already (see also SO question).

And one possible solution (on the same page, re-posting it here):

Posted by Misha Rudiy on 11/5/2015 at 7:30 AM

For new OS installs you can still pin to the taskbar via the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TBDEn registry key.

Example: In an SCCM Task Sequence, I have a batch script that runs after the "Setup Windows and Configuration Manager" step that basically contains reg-adds.

Syntax (REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TBDEn" /v SBOEM0 /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%%ALLUSERSPROFILE%%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Mozilla Firefox.lnk" /f)

You can add additional links by adding values and incrementing SBOEM0 to SBOEM1 etc.

Thanks to Wayne Ye http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/185512/Programmatically-PIN-shortcut-onto-Taskbar-on-Win7.aspx for pointing this method out back in 2011.

Somethings to note, there seems to be little public documentation on this. It most likely only works as a post imaging step (see my reference to SCCM), but I am not 100% sure. The above mentioned site states that it takes place during the DASH process. I wasn't able to find any documentation on how\when a DASH process works with Windows OSes. This may be information that is only privy to OEMS.

How to get verb for pin to taskbar in Windows 10?

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