How To Pin Website To Windows 7 Taskbar And Download Website Favicon


If you’re wondering how to pin a website to the taskbar like windows7themes.net, you should follow this tutorial.

how to pin website to icon

1. Right-click on your desktop and click on New – Shortcut:

Create new shortcut for website

2. Follow the wizard, when asked to enter a location, insert this:

For IE9: “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” http://windows7themes.net

For Firefox: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” http://windows7themes.net

For Chrome: “C:\Users\yourusernamehere\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” http://windows7themes.net

For Opera: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\opera.exe” http://windows7themes.net

Website shortcut

You have to add your username to the path for Chrome and of course you need to make sure you have actually installed your programs in (x86). If you are on Windows 7 32-bit, you need to remove the (x86) from the path.

Tip: You can hold Shift and right-click on the browser icon (close all browsers first) and then on Properties to see the path to the browser .exe file

Download Website Favicon For Shortcut

3. Once that is done, download an icon for the website. Simply enter your url like this:

http://yourfavoritewebsite.com/favicon.ico – e.g. http://windows7themes.net/favicon.ico

Then download the image and save it somewhere. In some cases, the website may store it somewhere else, you then have to look into the source code of the website and hit CTRL + F to search for “.ico”

4. Right-click on the shortcut we created in step 2 and click on Properties, then on the General tab click on Change Icon. Next, click on Browse and locate the icon we downloaded in step 3

In some cases, you can’t use the favicon.ico and it will say “favicon.ico contains no icons”. Then you should simply create an icon yourself or use another for this website.

The source code of a website can be seen in Chrome if you right-click inside the browser and click on View page source


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Written by oliversk Monday, December 12th, 2011

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