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Here is my procedure...
1. Right-click on the desktop, choose New and choose Shortcut
2. Type a Web address in the field
3. Give the shortcut a name
4. There is now a shortcut icon on my desktop, which, when double-clicked, opens my web browser to the correct page.
5. I click-and-drag the shortcut onto my taskbar to pin it to my web browser.
6. I right-click on the pinned browser shortcut to access the JumpList, and choose my newly-pinned link.

The aforementioned procedure works in Windows 7 when pinning shortcuts to Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. However, with Maxthon3, it works fine until step 6. Instead of opening the browser it throws this error message.

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A concise explanation and a practical fix for the Jump List error reported by .

Windows will sometimes pin the Internet Shortcut file itself and hand that file to the browser; some third‑party browsers (or their installer/registration) don't handle that the same way Internet Explorer/Chrome/Firefox do, which leads to the error when the Jump List entry is invoked. A robust workaround is to pin a program shortcut that launches Maxthon with the page URL as an argument rather than pinning the .url file.

Create a shortcut that calls Maxthon.exe with the URL, then pin that shortcut to the taskbar. Example (adjust the path to your installation and the site URL):

"C:\Program Files\Maxthon3\Bin\Maxthon.exe" "http://www.example.com"

Name the shortcut, then right‑click it and choose Pin to Taskbar (or drag it onto the pinned Maxthon icon so it joins Maxthon’s Jump List). This forces Windows to launch Maxthon directly and pass the address, avoiding the file-reference problem.

Additional checks: make Maxthon the default browser in Default Programs; confirm Maxthon is not set to "Run as administrator" under Compatibility (elevation can break taskbar/Jump List behavior); unpin the old shortcut and repin after making changes; if needed, restart Explorer or sign out/sign in to clear stale Jump List state. These steps have resolved similar pinning issues with nonstandard browsers. ’s brief confirmation suggests that a simple tweak like the above is likely to help.

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Thanks for that.

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Can no one come up with an answer to my problem?

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