http://www.virtual-clouds.com Erlang and Other Animals Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:42:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.virtual-clouds.com/2010/02/161/gmail-application-shortcut-on-windows-7/ http://www.virtual-clouds.com/2010/02/161/gmail-application-shortcut-on-windows-7/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:38:06 +0000 ofer affias http://www.virtual-clouds.com/?p=161 shortcut use the following string on the location field: “%appdata%\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --app=https://mail.google.com/mail” after the shortcut was created, [...]]]> here is a quick and easy way to pin a gmail application shortcut into your win7 taskbar using googe chrome.

1. create a new shortcut by right clicking inside a folder (like desktop or documents) followed by choosing: new > shortcut
2. use the following string on the location field: “%appdata%\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --app=https://mail.google.com/mail”
3. after the shortcut was created, change the icon for shortcut by right clicking on it and choosing properties > change icon (i have downloaded the gmail icon from http://iconexpo.com/2009/02/free-gmail-icon-new-version)
4. drag the shortcut to the taskbar in order to pin it
5. click on it, it will first open a new task on task bar but after gmail loads it will merge to the one you have already pinned (which is separated for the normal chrome task on the taskbar)

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