How to fix broken Explorer pins (Windows 7)

Ever had this happen to you? Pinned directories on Windows 7 are an awesome feature, if it weren’t for that one annoying bug (which incidentally survived the RC).

From time to time, all of your pins will disappear and you can’t re-pin them. I use pinned stuff a lot and it happened to me 4 times already. Here’s what you can do:

Go to
C:\Users\Your Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations
and delete every file in there.
(Note that the ‘AutomaticDestinations’ directory  won’t show up in explorer if you click through the directory tree, you have to add ‘\AutomaticDestinations’ to the end of the path.)

This will remove every pin you ever made on anything but at least you can now re-pin your items.

Thanks to howtogeek.com.

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