Rather bizarre! Yes but I had no previous verisions available.

Recuva was about the only one that wouldn't bring up anything for recovery! "0 files found, 14,000 ignored". I tried with various...

I have just done a clean install of Windows 10 Pro on my laptop.

I cut and pasted a folder of photos from my phone to the desktop.

I deleted a few photos and then restored one of them from the...

Windows 10 Pro
Office 2007

Correct...
If I use the hacked reg context menu to create a pinned item, it doesn't work.
However, if I open the folder...

Thanks again... I see there are 3 more registry entries in Brink's than the WindowsClub I posted above.
Unfortunately no change though.

I thought I would test with a PDF file and this works fine,...

Hi Andre,
Thanks for that. I will use that method if I can't get my preferred option to work. (I like to only pin shortcuts to the taskbar that I use every day).

I see that what I am trying to...

I have used the method described here https://www.thewindowsclub.com/pin-file-to-start-menu-windows-10 to add shortcuts to office docs to the start menu/tiles. The shortcuts appear immediately (no...