Windows Update icon

Right-click on the Taskbar and select:
Properties > Start Menu (tab) > Customize > Add.
Type in: wupdmgr.exe , and click Next.
In the next window, click on the Start Menu and click Next.
Type in: Windows Update and click on Finish.


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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"HistoryFan" <NoSpam!@nospam.com> wrote in message:
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| I'm using XP Home SP1. I accidentally deleted the Windows Update
| shortcut found on my most frequently used programs list. I know how to find
| that site, but I'd like to get that shortcut back and this time pin it to my
| Start Menu.. Is there a simple way to do that?

Many thanks for the tip. It worked. I should mention in case anyone
else tries this that your Start Menu must be set to the "Classic Start Menu"
in order to do this. If you're using the XP Start Menu you won't find the
add button.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <mrxp2004@nospamyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Right-click on the Taskbar and select:
> Properties > Start Menu (tab) > Customize > Add.
> Type in: wupdmgr.exe , and click Next.
> In the next window, click on the Start Menu and click Next.
> Type in: Windows Update and click on Finish.
>
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP - Shell/User
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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>
> "HistoryFan" <NoSpam!@nospam.com> wrote in message:
> news:%23wO55H2lDHA.1676@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
> | I'm using XP Home SP1. I accidentally deleted the Windows Update
> | shortcut found on my most frequently used programs list. I know how to

find

> | that site, but I'd like to get that shortcut back and this time pin it

to my

> | Start Menu.. Is there a simple way to do that?
>