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Cannot pin to taskbar, windows 7

I've created a scratch-installed Windows 7 workstation, joined it to the domain and migrated the user profile. I've made sure that user has permission for everything under that user's AppData. I cannot pin anything to the task bar. I've removed everything from %APPDATA%\\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar. I've already tried deleting/re-adding HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile\IsShortcut. I've verified the gpedit.msc, User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar > Do not allow pinning programs to the Taskbar, is set to "Not Configured". I've rebooted several times. I cannot pin Outlook to the taskbar. Nothing happens. I need to be able to pin things to the task bar.

Ideas?

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Try it with another user profile.

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I found this Reset and Clear All Pinned Items tool.
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/214711-taskbar-pinned-items-reset-clear-windows-7-a.html

It contains the following code:

DEL /F /S /Q /A "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\*"
REG DELETE HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband /F
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe

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A lot of people are also complaining about missing registry value data for lnkfile registry key, which defines the behavior of all shortcut or.lnk files on the system.
To resolve this, navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile. Create a new String Value (REG_SZ) to create a new registry value. Name it as IsShortcut . No value data is required. Then reboot.

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I tried various of the suggestions posted here. I kept changing folder permissions, but there kept being more sub-folders with wrong permission. This was getting tedious. In the end I gave up, and deleted everything under C:\Users\myuser. I logged back into the system using domain credentials whereupon a new user folder was created. I could then create links. The only remaining problem with this is the inability to re-use the old Outook pst file, but that's another problem already posted: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29092297/How-to-get-Outlook-2010-to-use-existing-pst-file.html