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Re: Pining Cygwin in Windows 7?

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Charles Wilson <> wrote:
>
> Try installing mintty, then launching
> ? C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -
> (e.g. with the argument '-') as your "pin". (I don't know much about W7,
> but at least you'd be starting an executable instead of a batch file).
>
> --
> Chuck

You don't need to create any special shortcut to launch it.

Launching mintty from the shortcut that is added when you install it
and then pinning the resultant box to the task bar works for me on
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1.

-Jason

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