Pinning Icons to the Taskbar
The quickest and easiest way to add icons to the toolbar is to pin them. The Quick Access Toolbar was so popular in Windows XP that many people didn’t realize that you could also pin icons to the taskbar in that operating system as well.
Let’s say you use Microsoft Word often and you want to pin its shortcut to the program on the taskbar so you can open it more quickly. Click on Start and then click on All Programs. Locate the Microsoft Office folder that contains the Word shortcut. Drag the Word icon to an empty space on the taskbar and Windows 7 will automatically pin it there.
Notice that there is now a small Word icon on the taskbar right next to the Start button.