How can I increase the size of the pinned jump list in Windows 7?

Question

I use Notepad++ for a bunch of text files. I like to pin my frequently used text files to the Notepad++ icon on the taskbar. There seems to be a limit of 18 items visible. I can pin more than 18 files but I can't see them. I have plenty of screen real estate so the jumplist/pinned list could be a lot taller. How can I increase the size of the "Pinned" portion of the jump list in Windows 7?

Note that I am NOT talking about the increasing the size of the "recent" portion of the jump list (I have that set to zero). I can find plenty of hits on adjusting the size of that, but nothing on adjusting the size of the "Pinned" list.

Answer 1

Google doesn't seem to have anything on increasing the pinned section, but Jumplist Launcher could possibly get the result you're looking for, albeit with a bit more work. You'd have to add all of the files you want via the program, but the end result would appear be similar to pinning them all.

Answer 2

1. Right click on the Windows orb/start button and click Properties.
2. Click the Start Menu tab (if not already selected).
3. Click Customize...
   
4. Set Number of recent programs to display and Number of recent items to display in Jump Lists to to something like 20.
   

This also makes your start menu super tall, allows you to add more pinned programs to your start menu and more pinned programs to your pinned programs jump lists.

You don't need the jumplist launcher to do that.

I was wishing that when the limit was reached it would become a scrollable jump list like they do when you click all programs on the start menu. That would be ideal! Does the jumplist launcher do that?

Answer 3

Browse to the following key in the registry editor:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ApplicationDestinations\MaxEntries

Change the decimal value of Max entries to whatever you like (the default is 17).

Answer 4

I was just doing this in Windows 8.1 and thought I'd add an answer to show the differences in that OS:

1. Right Click on the taskbar and go into properties.
2. Go to the Jump Lists tab.

3. Change the number of recent items to display in Jump Lists to a suitable number, the maximum is 60:

   

4. Click OK

The recent items and pinned items share the space, so the number you set is a total across both types of item. If you set it too high, then it will go off the top of your screen - with a 1200px vertical, I can fit about 45 items in a full-height jump list.

Answer 5

Works in Windows 10

To change quantity of Jump List items, open RegEdit and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Click on Advanced key. On menu, click Edit > New > DWORD (32 bit) Value. Name it: JumpListItems_Maximum Right click it, select Modify and set Hexadecimal Value to what you want. This takes immediate effect. No need to reboot system. Also works when those Jump Lists and Start Menu tabs are missing from Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window. :)

Edit:

I observed that jump lists open after a lot of delay if you set the jump list size to large number. In my case this occurred when I kept it to 30. So ended up reducing it to 15.

Answer 6

Also, there's an optional update to the jump list that allows for more than 999 items, though who would ever want 1,000 items in their list is beyond me.

Answer 7

It could set the jump list like real high and leave recent programs at 8 as the default or even set it to 0 if it has its jumplist set to all the programs it recently uses anyway. That's sort of the idea of recent applications.

So it could set recent to 0 even and other to twice the amount showing.

Answer 8

Windows 7

Check "Use small icons" in "Taskbar" tab.