Taskbar pinning and grouping doesn't work smooth

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When running under Windows 7, the pinning and grouping of Lotus Notes 8.5.1 doesn’t work as it should. When I pin the Start Menu / Desktop link to the taskbar, I can start LN, but the link icon in the task bar isn’t replaced by the window tab, instead the icon stays and a separate window tab appears (I assume this is because the link points to notes.exe while the process owning the window is notes2.exe. However, if I pin the window to the task bar, the resulting icon doesn’t start Notes properly, as it is calling notes2.exe directly and the Java run-time isn’t initiated correctly.

This is not a major issue, but it definitely is annoying.

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Subject: no change with FP1

same problem after installing fixpack 1 for 8.5.1.

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Subject: Can’t even pin to taskbar

I’m having a problem even getting it pinned to the taskbar in Windows 7. I can with any other application other than Notes.

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Subject: Reghack and autoit script

If you go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\notes2.exe and delete the key that’s called “NoStartPage” you should be able to pin the Notes program. However, if you try to start Notes using the pinned icon, you’ll get an error message saying something like: “the notes2 executable launcher was unable to locate its companion jar”.

So it seems you have to start notes.exe first. But we don’t want two icons in the taskbar do we?

I have created an AutoIt script which runs in the background, and as soon as the error message comes up, it calls notes.exe.

This way I can start Notes with the pinned icon, and I don’t have to have more than one Notes icon in the taskbar.

I’ll gladly share my background program. Is it possible to post it here in some manner?

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Subject: Found a way to make it work

This is strange, but it worked. First I launch Notes, and click on the running program in the taskbar - there is a Pin to Taskbar option, so I do that. But when I close and then use that new icon to relaunch, it actually starts Notes Minder. So I edited the shortcut to point to Notes.exe instead of NMinder.exe, and now everything is working correctly. Notes launches from the taskbar icon and doesn’t spawn a second icon on the taskbar.

The thing that’s really confusing is why is nminder.exe is being pinned instead of notes.exe or notes2.exe? I have no clue…

This is Win 7 SP1, Notes 8.5.2FP2

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Subject: Script solution

Hi Everybody!

I’ve just found a solution in my current customer. Just a little weird, but 100% working. Just follow these steps:

  1. Download the PinItem script from Windows Deployment Guys Blog from
  1. BEFORE INSTALLING LOTUS NOTES, Configure it to point to the notes.exe path in your installations. It should look like:

cscript.exe \Pinitem.wsf /item:“” /taskbar.

This will create a void pinned item pointing to notes.exe.

  1. Install Notes 8.5 and reboot.

  2. Voilà!.

Check it and please give feedback to this.

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Subject: Quick solution

Rename the notes.exe file by adding .exe at the end, pin it, and change the name back to notes.exe. This also works on desktop shortcuts.

http://platao.plansis.com.br/blogkenio.nsf/dx/pinnotes.htm