Having problems pinning Eclipse Juno/Luna/Mars shortcut to windows 7 taskbar

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Olle Söderström picture Olle Söderström · Jul 5, 2012 · Viewed 22.2k times · Source

I can't seem to properly pin a shortcut to Juno. I've never had this problem with earlier versions of Eclipse.

I've already tried this approach How to make Eclipse behave well in the Windows 7 taskbar? But that didn't do it for me.

What happen is that when I run eclipse.exe the new shiny Juno icon is shown in the taskbar, but when it's done loading and I get to choose workspace the icon switches to a "Java EE IDE"-icon and pinning that icon doesn't work.

Anyone experience the same problem?

Answer

ganeshk picture ganeshk · Jul 9, 2012

I was facing the same issue. I did a couple of things:

1.Added this to the beginning of eclipse.ini

-vm
C:/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin/server

2.Updated the eclipse definitions - using check for updates from within eclipse. I still didn't get the pin option (icon showed Java EE)

3.Updated Windows and restarted my system.

And voila! It worked! Hope it does for you too!

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