Guide | How To Guide: How to fix Pinned Bing Weather to your Taskbar

[Ink]

How to fix Pinned Bing Weather to your Taskbar

Required to use Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, Notepad.

Step 1

If your homepage is about:tabs and you have your Bing Weather bookmarked.



Step 2

Drag the Web Icon to the Taskbar.



Step 3

Clicking on the newly pinned icon, will take you to Bing.com. We need to change that so it takes you directly according to your weather code.
Please leave this window open until Step 7.



Step 4

We need to find the file location of the pinned site, which is shown in the Properties.



Step 5

Copy that address link, so we can use it in the next step.



Step 6

Launch Notepad and File > Open.

Paste the address of the location for Pinned Taskbar icons and select to show All Files (*.*), then click to open Bing.



Step 7

Copy and Paste the URL (from Step 1) to where it is highlighted in the screenshot below. Save and then close all open windows.

Before

URL=http://www.bing.com/

After

URL=http://www.bing.com/weather/search?q {Location} &form {Weather Code}

It should now open Bing Weather with your saved URL location without using your Bookmarks, or Web Slices.

The great thing about Pinned tabs is that it saves an Icon that fits to the size of the Taskbar.

 

[Jack]

Neat trick! Thank you very much! Great tutorial +REP.