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Why doesn't the Windows 7 Start menu have a pushpin for pinning items?

January 26, 2012 Jan 26, 2012 01/26/12

Raymond Chen

You may have noticed a minor inconsistency between pinning a program to the Start menu and pinning a destination to a program's Jump List. Although pinned items appear at the top of the respective lists, and both the Start menu and Jump List let you right-click an item and select Pin/Unpin, the Jump List also lets you pin and unpin an item by ...