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Can't Pin Thunderbird 68.12.0 on Windows 7's Taskbar,

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September 6, 2020 - 2:34am
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Can't Pin Thunderbird 68.12.0 on Windows 7's Taskbar,

Hello I recently updated to Thunderbird 68.1.0, I forgot to disable automatic updates and today when I started it as usual the program updated itself to ver. 68.12.0 and now, no matter what, I can't pin it to the taskbar, I tried everything and every tutorial I came by.

Basically when I start the program from the pinned link it asks me to configure accounts, it doesn't find the profile in my understanding.
I tried to:
Pin the Thunderbirdportable.exe to the taskbar: whenever I click it it adds a new one to the taskbar.
Create a link and then adding it to the taskbar, editing the "Starts in" field to find the profile directory, no luck.
Pin the Thunderbirdportable.exe and the clicking it: no luck, opens TB and asks me to configure accounts.
Pin Thunderbird.exe found in ThunderbirdPortable\App\Thunderbird64, asks me to configure accounts.

I looked for a solution in the forum but with no luck so far, can someone help me?
I don't know where to bang my head on.
Thanks.

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September 6, 2020 - 1:35pm
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Platform

To properly pin portable apps that use multiple EXEs with helper launchers like ours, you should use the PortableApps.com Platform. It's built in.

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September 6, 2020 - 3:51pm
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Can I respectfully ask what

Can I respectfully ask what the platform does that I cannot do myself?
I mean there's nothing wrong with it it's just that I use portable software because I prefer to have less programs installed as possible.
What I do find weird is that before the update I had it pinned without any hassle and nothing else installed, what has changed?.
Thanks for your help.

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September 6, 2020 - 8:16pm
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Specialized lnk file

It creates a specialized LNK file that opens ThunderbirdPortable.exe but uses the correct AppID for Thunderbird itself. That can then be pinned to the taskbar and will run ThunderbirdPortable.exe but not create a second icon for Thunderbird when run. Windows can't create these files on its own, you need a third party utility like the mklink command line utility to do this. You can look at the source code if you'd like to see the bits as the platform is all open source.

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September 7, 2020 - 7:26am
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Nonono, you've been clear and

Nonono, you've been clear and exhaustive.
Thank you very much.

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