Thank the Wind spirits life ain't totally rosey. We often can't unpin items from Explorer jumplists. Yes, it is obvious that squirrels sometimes get the better of our jumping jubilation! Jumplists in Taskbar right click menus are Windows Explorer features that enable effortless tracking and returning to manually saved and to automatically stored disk locations. There are three jumplists for each taskbar Jumplist Menu: top jumplist is user defined (psuedo controlled); middle is a Windows user track record of recent and popular locations; bottom jumplist is a global system list with a few linked system commands appropriate to the specific taskbar link, and over time reflecting user system use. Users can shape and manipulate top and middle jumplists, but the bottom jumplist is normally set by the system and it tends to statically reflect each user's system environments. Jumplists do not control user environments. Jumplist manipulation is easy! Jumplists are managed with a right click Jumplist menu. You can individually add or remove from jumplists by dragging open Explorer (Internet Explorer) address bar locations to the taskbar, or by using desktop and Explorer right click context menus and selecting Pin to Taskbar. Users can drag items into and around between top and middle jumplists. Now for the not-so-good goods. ... Jumplist locations can get stuck so that they cannot be unpinned from explorer jumplists. Microsoft Technet publications seem to indicate that factors contributing to sticking are potentially limitless, involving interaction of as yet unsecured Taskbar functionality. When sticking happens (and you want to get rid of it), please remember that while there is no Stick-it or Unstick-it menu command, the bottom taskbar jumplist is a friendly (for now) reminder that being stuck ain't so bad, uh-huh. There are lots and lots of squirrelly caches where you can find and delete stubborn nuts. Sometimes deleting those nutty linked files will not remove them from jump lists: they are stuck nuts! But there are dialogue options you can use, and also unusual user file manipulation to clean up jumplists contaminated with smelly old nuts. And we will share those here. Sticky nut removals is handled in two distinct ways; one top list method and one middle list method. Both methods are easy, and you may prefer like me to simply apply these global fixes and rebuild jumplists rather than waste often useless hours and days hunting down squirrel caches. NOTE: before applying following repairs, please ... do the squirrely thing with your healthy registries. Simple Jumplist archives are yet to be born! Middle jumplist repair is done with Taskbar's right-click Propeties dialog. Using an empty Taskbar space, select Properties and then in the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog uncheck both "Store and display..." options. For now if these options are greyed out or not present, assume wisely that your system is already maliciously exploited. Anyhoo, once these are unchecked you are ready to clear all those squirrrely caches (see below). Top jumplist repair is done by deleting a special file (s). Running %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations will get where you need to go. The file specific to every item in the top and middle jumplists is 1b4dd67f29cb1962.automaticDestinations-ms and you should immediately delete it. From personal experience, delete them all, as nut picking in this system directory will cause aspects of sticky nuts contamination to linger and worsen the amount of sticking links until you rightly commit to do the brave thing. Delete them all! Now you are truly ready to clear all those squirelly caches from your system jumplists! Clearing out all those squirrely caches is almost done. DON"T REBOOT! Windows still wnts to wipe some deleterious detritus from you registries, but to do that she needs to refresh Explorer. to do this you need to shut dow and then restart Explorer. Stop and Start are both easily accomplished using Task Manager. Ctrl-Alt-Del to start Task Manager. On the Processes tab find explorer.exe, right click and End Process Tree. Your window and mouse will become useless. Ctrl-Alt-Del to call back Task Manager. Select Applications tab and click New, then type "explorer". Check your jumplists and they are all reset to system defaults, waiting for you to imprint and impress them with your particular computing flavors. For system administrators, Windows design is always purposed. Sticking may be treated as a benign occurence and ignored temporarily, or it could be deployed in crude out-of-box group customization: UNC instances in jumplists can signal user faults or UNC's can be setup as 'secure' reflections of group priorities and/or foci for system intervention. All the way to rather anal programming banalities, this writer has not discovered any critical system faults resulting from user jumplist contamination. Except that attachment of Nat Traversal and/or VPN to the desktop has significant impact on Taskbar user interaction! Such system failure is a clear indication that the Windows 7 Taskbar product requires urgent remedy. However, Symantec has red-flagged this behavior. Obviously, otherwise useless stuck nuts represent an opportunity for malicious squirrels to anchor malicious code in every Windows 7 system. Microsoft should seriously review and amend policy as well as all related intervention, both as critical security KB's and as development to plug [many] leaks. As humble end users, we are obviously not privy to the turbulent adjustments promoting the amazing new Windows jumplists. Other than Stick-It and Unstick-it, what can third party do to rescue us from this BRAWLING 'N' SPEWING WIDE OPEN JUMPLIST FRONTIER? 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Dear Miya, Can you please kick a robot for me? Form link you provide responds simply "The answer of the question is too long." ... er, googoo grammar? ISSUE win7 premium office 2010 home and business - i5 2500k ddr3x8gb - gts250 ddr5x1.25gb taskbar jumplist contamination presents in taskbar right-click jumplists as "stuck" links items pinned to jumplists become "stuck" - that is, they cannot be moved or deleted two things can happen to stuck items 1. items cannot be moved between top and bottom jumplists 2. items cannot be deleted from jumplists 1. items cannot be moved between top and bottom jumplists when items are dragged from top to middle or from middle to top jumplists a) they snap back to their original posistion b) a copy persists in the original location 2. items cannot be deleted from jumplists jumplist links to files that are moved or deleted persist a) jumplist links cannot be deleted b) jumplist links can be moved from middle to top jumplist, but they still cannot be deleted SOLUTION solution involves using taskbar properties, by then clearing corrupt Windows "destinations", and by then refreshing Explorer this 3-step solution must be fully executed or volume and frequency of 'sticking' will rapidly increment execution of decontamination in the order presented here is successful; it may be possible to switch steps 1 and 2 1. taskbar properties can be used to begin middle jumplist decontamination right-click on taskbar - select Properties - click Start Menu tab - uncheck both Privacy options 2. top jumplist repair can begin by deleting at least one of three Windows automatic destination files browse to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations and delete 1b4dd67f29cb1962.automaticDestinations-ms deleting the other destination files will not hurt and may be required if "stuck" items resurface as soon as you complete these 3 steps 3. press Ctrl-Alt-Delete - select Start Task Manager - click Processes tab - select explorer.exe - right-click and select End Process Tree - press Ctrl-Alt-Delete - select Start Task Manager - click Applications tab - click New - enter EXPLORER Sincerely, Mark